Common use of Reassignment Guidelines Clause in Contracts

Reassignment Guidelines. A. The employee being reassigned must report to the reassigned unit within ten (10) minutes of notification. B. Agency, including travel nurses, shall be reassigned first, followed by Per Diem and/or Float nurses. Per Diems and Float nurses shall not receive the hourly reassignment pay described below. Reassignment may be to regular units or overflow areas. C. Volunteers for reassignment shall be sought next. Employees who volunteer (including the employee who is next up in the rotation to be reassigned if he or she volunteers) for reassignment from one patient care unit to another shall receive an additional hourly rate of $3.00 per hour. D. If there are not sufficient volunteers, regularly scheduled employees will be reassigned on a rotating basis. The employees in each unit shall maintain documentation of rotation. E. Employees who are reassigned shall not be required to assume Resource Nurse (Charge) duties. In situations where the employee believes he or she is not qualified to accept the assignment, including operation of equipment to which they have not been oriented, the employee shall notify the manager or supervisor so that Virtua can either provide the training or make the appropriate changes in the assignment. F. Only when there is no other need within the clinical grouping (without regard to agency, traveling nurses, or overtime), or where nurses are held in reserve so that a unit can be re-opened, an employee who is chosen to be reassigned may either take personal leave or unpaid time off in lieu of being reassigned. G. Employees may sign up to work in a clinical grouping other than their own if they are qualified in the second clinical grouping, and, when they do so, they shall be subject to reassignment only for that time and shift, within the second clinical grouping. H. In the event of increase in census in a particular unit or clinical grouping, the Employer may create “overflow” areas which shall be considered part of that unit’s clinical grouping. Reassignment to such an overflow area shall be a reassignment under this Section

Reassignment Guidelines. A. The employee being reassigned must report to the reassigned unit within ten (10) minutes of notification. B. Agency, including travel nurses, shall be reassigned first, followed by Per Diem ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ and/or Float nurses. Per Diems and Float nurses shall not receive the hourly reassignment pay described below. Reassignment may be to regular units or overflow areas. C. Volunteers for reassignment shall be sought next. Employees who volunteer (including the employee who is next up in the rotation to be reassigned if he or she volunteers) for reassignment from one patient care unit to another shall receive an additional hourly rate of $3.00 per hour. D. . If there are not sufficient volunteers, regularly scheduled employees will be reassigned on a rotating basis. The employees in each unit shall maintain documentation of rotation. E. D. Employees who are reassigned shall not be required to assume Resource Nurse (Charge) duties. In situations where the employee believes he or she is not qualified to accept the assignment, including operation of equipment to which they have not been oriented, the employee shall notify the manager or supervisor so that Virtua can either provide the training or make the appropriate changes in the assignment. When reassigned, an employee may request to be reacclimated to the unit to which he/she is reassigned. F. E. Only when there is no other need within the clinical grouping (without regard to agency, traveling nurses, or overtime), or where nurses are held in reserve so that a unit can be re-opened, an employee who is chosen to be reassigned may either take personal leave or unpaid time off in lieu of being reassigned. G. F. Employees may sign up to work in a clinical grouping other than their own if they are qualified in the second clinical grouping, and, when they do so, they shall be subject to reassignment only for that time and shift, within the second clinical grouping. H. G. In the event of increase in census in a particular unit or clinical grouping, the Employer may create “overflow” areas which shall be considered part of that unit’s clinical grouping. Reassignment to such an overflow area shall be a reassignment under this Section