Process for maintaining skills Sample Clauses

Process for maintaining skills. The process of orientation and skills maintenance will be a shared responsibility. The Medical Center may require a nurse to orient to one nursing unit in addition to the nurse’s home unit, except that float pool unit nurses may be required to orient to five (5) nursing units. Each nurse is expected to gain and maintain clinical expertise in the additional unit to which the nurse has been oriented. A nurse shall be able to retain the same additional unit to which he/she has been oriented for as long as the Medical Center continues to have a need for nurses floating to that unit. When a nurse transfers from a position in the float pool to a nursing unit position, the Medical Center shall designate the additional single unit to which the nurse will be required (1) to float to assume a primary patient care assignment and (2) to maintain orientation. The initial selection of the nurse’s additional unit shall usually occur at the time of the nurse’s hire or appraisal process. Each nurse shall be given the option of a minimum of at least two nursing units from which to choose his/her secondary unit, in accordance with the organization’s departmental needs. Orientation to the secondary unit shall occur during any scheduled shift, which may include a low census shift, and/or on a nurse’s scheduled day off at the request of the nurse, provided that staffing on the nurse’s home unit is not compromised by this assignment. The nurse shall have the option to reorient to any unit to which he/she is required to float if the nurse has not worked in that unit for more than six (6) months. A nursing unit for the purpose of Sections 8.9 and 8.10 shall consist of the currently defined units, unless otherwise bargained between the parties pursuant to this Agreement.]

Process for maintaining skills. The process of orientation and skills maintenance will be a shared responsibility. The Medical Center may require a nurse to orient to one nursing unit in addition to the nurse’s home unit, except that float pool unit nurses may be required to orient to five (5) nursing units. Each nurse is expected to gain and maintain clinical expertise in the additional unit to which the nurse has been oriented. A nurse shall be able to retain the same additional unit to which he/she has been oriented for as long as the Medical Center continues to have a need for nurses floating to that unit. When a nurse transfers from a position in the float pool to a nursing unit position, the Medical Center shall designate the additional single unit to which the nurse will be required (1) to float to assume a primary patient care assignment and