Unit-Based Staffing and Scheduling Committees Sample Clauses

Unit-Based Staffing and Scheduling Committees. It is the responsibility 19 of each nursing unit to turn in a balanced schedule and staffing plan. Each 20 unit shall elect a scheduling committee bi-annually. This unit committee will 22 protocols, communications, guidelines, and rules to accomplish a balanced 23 staffing plan. The Hospital Nurse Staffing Committee representative shall 24 coordinate and communicate with each unit scheduling committee on the unit 25 they represent, as requested. Each unit committee will consider bedside 26 hours, acuity, intensity, and case mix index for the unit. The unit committee, 27 in collaboration with the unit manager, will also develop consensus on 28 equitable floating, Staffing Standby, and ETO guidelines. All 29 recommendations and/or guidelines of the unit committee shall be approved 30 by a majority vote of RNs on the unit. All recommendations shall be 31 consistent with the ONA-ARRMC collective bargaining agreement, and with 32 the procedures and protocols of the Hospital Nurse Staffing Committee. The 33 unit committee shall report findings and recommendations annually to the 34 Hospital Nurse Staffing Committee. If the unit committee identifies concerns 1 with unbalanced schedules, including skill mix, it will bring patterns of 2 concern to the Hospital Nurse Staffing Committee. 4 Each nursing unit scheduling committee will review its unit level staffing, to 6 A. Accurate description of how individual and aggregate patient needs 7 and requirements for nurse care are used to staff the unit. 9 B. A system for recognizing differences in acuteness of patients, except 10 in those units where national standards exist and are being utilized. 12 C. A description of the specialized qualifications and competencies of the 13 nursing staff on the unit and how this is related to the staffing plan. 15 D. A description of how the skill mix and competency qualifications 16 ensure that nursing care needs of all the patients on the unit are met. 18 E. Consistency with nationally recognized, evidence-based standards in 19 the specialty. The requirement here is to determine if the unit level 20 plan is below, at, or above the national standards from specialty 21 nursing organizations. Wherever the unit level staffing plan falls below 22 national standards, an explanation must be provided for that level. 24 F. A description of the minimum number of registered nursing staff 25 personnel required on a specified shift, with no fewer than one (1) RN
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Unit-Based Staffing and Scheduling Committees. It is the responsibility of each 26 nursing unit to A) create unit-based staffing and scheduling guidelines; and B) develop 27 the unit’s staffing plan to be presented to the Hospital Nurse Staffing Committee turn in a 28 balanced schedule and staffing plan. 29 Each unit shall elect a Staffing and sScheduling committee bi-annually. 30 This unit committee will work collaboratively with the unit manager to develop consensus 31 on protocols, communications, guidelines, and rules to accomplish a balanced staffing
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Unit-Based Staffing and Scheduling Committees. 2 It is the responsibility of each nursing unit to turn in a balanced schedule and staffing
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