Common use of Special Educational Leave for Health Personnel Clause in Contracts

Special Educational Leave for Health Personnel. 485. Each fulltime and regularly scheduled parttime nurse shall be allowed a maximum of forty (40) hours educational leave with pay per fiscal year or a prorata share thereof to complete programs approved by the California Board of Registered Nurses for Continuing Education Units or Continuing Medical Education or are necessary to achieve the particular classification's recertification or relicensure and professional nursing development and education. 486. The Department shall grant every Registered Nurse forty (40) hours of educational leave per fiscal year subject to the reasonable staffing requirements of the Department. Requests for educational leave are subject to approval by Nursing Administration or other appropriate administrator, and shall be submitted in writing on the proper form one (1) month in advance of the course date when possible. Approval or disapproval of requests for educational leave shall be based only on the reasonable staffing requirements of the Department. A Registered Nurse who is entitled to apply for educational leave hours but who does not apply waives them for the year. If an eligible nurse requests educational leave before May 1 of any year for a program within the guidelines provided herein and is denied such request, the nurse may carry over the amount of leave denied not to exceed ten (10) hours to the following fiscal year, provided that the total accumulated educational leave may not exceed fifty (50) hours per fiscal year. Preference for granting requests for educational leave shall be given to the employee having the earliest relicensure date. Nursing administration will seriously consider staff nurse requests for unpaid educational leave. Nurses may request the opportunity to conduct research in nursing specialty areas. The subject content of the research and the scheduling of release time shall be subject to the approval of the Department. Adequate proof indicating successful completion of the course shall be submitted to the designated supervisor, if requested, within a reasonable period (but not to exceed three months) following the end of the course. Failure to submit such requested proof shall be just cause for rescinding approval for Educational Leave and recording the nurse's time as Absent Without Leave for the period. SEIU LOCAL 790 (STAFF NURSE & XXX XXXX) Memorandum of Understanding July 1, 2000 - June 30, 2003 487. Attendance, including reasonable travel time, shall count as educational leave with pay. If attendance at such functions, including reasonable travel time, occurs on a normal workday and the nurse can report for at least four (4) hours of his/her regularly scheduled shift, the nurse shall report to duty if so directed by his/her supervisor. If the nurse is unable to report for at least four (4) hours of his/her regularly scheduled shift or his/her supervisor directs that the nurse not report to work, the entire shift shall be charged against educational leave. Nurses who are regularly assigned to the evening or night shift will be excused from all or part of their next regularly scheduled shift on the same basis, provided that such nurses may accumulate such educational leave time until s/he has accumulated the equivalent of a full shift. At that time s/he will have equivalent paid time off at the mutual convenience of the Department and the nurse.

Special Educational Leave for Health Personnel. 485524. Each fulltime and regularly scheduled parttime nurse shall be allowed a maximum of forty (40) hours educational leave with pay per fiscal year or a prorata share thereof to complete programs approved by the California Board of Registered Nurses for Continuing Education Units or Continuing Medical Education or are necessary to achieve the particular classification's recertification or relicensure and professional nursing development and education. 486Each fulltime and regularly scheduled parttime nurse in Class 2330 Nurse Anesthetist shall be allowed a maximum of eighty (80) hours of educational leave with pay per fiscal year or a prorata share thereof to complete programs approved by the California Board of Registered Nurses for Continuing Education Units or Continuing Medical Education or are necessary to achieve the particular classification’s recertification or relicensure and professional nursing development and education. 525. The Department shall grant every Registered Nurse forty (40) hours of educational leave per fiscal year subject to the reasonable staffing requirements of the Department. Requests for educational leave are subject to approval by Nursing Administration or other appropriate administrator, and shall be submitted in writing on the proper form one (1) month in advance of the course date when possible. Approval or disapproval of requests for educational leave shall be based only on the reasonable staffing requirements of the Department. A Registered Nurse who is entitled to apply for educational leave hours but who does not apply waives them for the year. If an eligible nurse requests educational leave before May 1 of any year for a program within the guidelines provided herein and is denied such request, the nurse may carry over the amount of leave denied not up to exceed ten twenty (1020) hours of educational leave to the following fiscal year, provided that the total accumulated educational leave may not exceed fifty sixty (5060) hours per fiscal year. Preference for granting requests for educational leave shall be given to the employee having the earliest relicensure date. Nursing administration will seriously consider staff nurse requests for unpaid educational leave. Nurses may request the opportunity to conduct research in nursing specialty areas. The subject content of the research and the scheduling of release time shall be subject to the approval of the Department. Adequate proof indicating successful completion of the course shall be submitted to the designated supervisor, if requested, within a reasonable period (but not to exceed three months) following the end of the course. Failure to submit such requested proof shall be just cause for rescinding approval for Educational Leave and recording the nurse's time as Absent Without Leave for the period. SEIU LOCAL 790 (STAFF NURSE & XXX XXXX) Memorandum of Understanding July 1, 2000 - June 30, 2003 487526. Attendance, including reasonable travel time, shall count as educational leave with pay. If attendance at such functions, including reasonable travel time, occurs on a normal workday and the nurse can report for at least four (4) hours of his/her regularly scheduled shift, the nurse shall report to duty if so directed by his/her supervisor. If the nurse is unable to report for at least four (4) hours of his/her regularly scheduled shift or his/her supervisor directs that the nurse not report to work, the entire shift shall be charged against educational leave. Nurses who are regularly assigned to the evening or night shift will be excused from all or part of their next regularly scheduled shift on the same basis, provided that such nurses may accumulate such educational leave time until s/he has accumulated the equivalent of a full shift. At that time s/he will have equivalent paid time off at the mutual convenience of the Department and the nurse.four

Special Educational Leave for Health Personnel. 485491. Each fulltime and regularly scheduled parttime nurse shall be allowed a maximum of forty (40) hours educational leave with pay per fiscal year or a prorata share thereof to complete programs approved by the California Board of Registered Nurses for Continuing Education Units or Continuing Medical Education or are necessary to achieve the particular classification's recertification or relicensure and professional nursing development and education. 486492. The Department shall grant every Registered Nurse forty (40) hours of educational leave per fiscal year subject to the reasonable staffing requirements of the Department. Requests for educational leave are subject to approval by Nursing Administration or other appropriate administrator, and shall be submitted in writing on the proper form one (1) month in advance of the course date when possible. Approval or disapproval of requests for educational leave shall be based only on the reasonable staffing requirements of the Department. A Registered Nurse who is entitled to apply for educational leave hours but who does not apply waives them for the year. If an eligible nurse requests educational leave before May 1 of any year for a program within the guidelines provided herein and is denied such request, the nurse may carry over the amount of leave denied not to exceed ten (10) hours to the following fiscal year, provided that the total accumulated educational leave may not exceed fifty (50) hours per fiscal year. Preference for granting requests for educational leave shall be given to the employee having the earliest relicensure date. Nursing administration will seriously consider staff nurse requests for unpaid educational leave. Nurses may request the opportunity to conduct research in nursing specialty areas. The subject content of the research and the scheduling of release time shall be subject to the approval of the Department. Adequate proof indicating successful completion of the course shall be submitted to the designated supervisor, if requested, within a reasonable period (but not to exceed three months) following the end of the course. Failure to submit such requested proof shall be just cause for rescinding approval for Educational Leave and recording the nurse's time as Absent Without Leave for the period. SEIU LOCAL 790 (STAFF NURSE & XXX XXXX) Memorandum of Understanding July 1, 2000 - June 30, 2003 487. Attendance, including reasonable travel time, shall count as educational leave with pay. If attendance at such functions, including reasonable travel time, occurs on a normal workday and the nurse can report for at least four (4) hours of his/her regularly scheduled shift, the nurse shall report to duty if so directed by his/her supervisor. If the nurse is unable to report for at least four (4) hours of his/her regularly scheduled shift or his/her supervisor directs that the nurse not report to work, the entire shift shall be charged against educational leave. Nurses who are regularly assigned to the evening or night shift will be excused from all or part of their next regularly scheduled shift on the same basis, provided that such nurses may accumulate such educational leave time until s/he has accumulated the equivalent of a full shift. At that time s/he will have equivalent paid time off at the mutual convenience of the Department and the nurse.