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HPAE Local
5089 RNs UMDNJ Labor-Management Update
Our Labor-Management Committee met with management on
Thursday, October 22 to discuss issues that impact our members.
Representing HPAE: Cynthia McDougall,
Co-President; Banita Herndon, Co-President; Elmer Daniels,
Secretary; Albert Abdemur, Health & Safety Co-chair; Helen
Soremekun, Staffing Advisory Co-chair; Norman DeGeneste, HPAE
Staff; and Valerie Zito, HPAE Staff.
Representing UMDNJ: Judy Colorado, Theresa
Rejrat, Jacinta Ogbonna, and Rosalina Manondgo
The agenda was as follows:
- Inappropriate use of showers by visitors
in OB
- Under age fathers spending the night in
OB
- Decreased census on
L&D
- Coverage for nurses attending meetings
and taking breaks
- Uniform Allowance and re-certification
pay
- Denial of overtime pay (E?Blue and
SICU)
- SDS and PAR broken stretchers
- Flies and Mice
- FICN nurses floated to GPICU
1. Issue: Inappropriate use of showers by
visitors OB. Resolution: No
visitor should be using bathrooms designated for patients. HPAE
suggested Signs will be posted on the unit to this
effect.
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2. Issue: Fathers who are
under age 18 spending night on unit.
Resolution: Fathers will be assessed on a case by
case basis and young fathers may visit but in general should not
spend the night.
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3. Issue: Decreased
census on L&D. Resolution: Phone outreach to
prospective mothers to encourage delivery at UMD. HPAE
recommends utilization of nursing students to do follow up house
visits as part of their community service rotation. Management
will explore this recommendation.
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4. Issue: Coverage for
nurses attending meetings and taking breaks.
Resolution: Management will continue to address this issue.
However, HPAE has learned that staff that
“volunteer” for Practice Committee are excused for
the entire day to attend this meeting. HPAE stance: all nurses
should have their meetings and breaks covered as well.
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5. Issue: Uniform Allowance
and re-certification pay. Resolution: Judy, C will
check with HR whether staff will receive recertification and
uniform allowance monies for 2009. HPAE has also filed a class
action grievance on these issues.
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6. Issue: Denial of overtime
pay to staff members of E – Blue and SICU.
Resolution: To date this matter is resolved and parties entitled
have received payment. Future denial of overtime should be
addressed to the HPAE Local 5089 Executive Board (LEB).
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7. Isssue: SDS and PAR
broken stretchers. Resolution: All transport stretchers
that are broken are to be labeled as such and removed by
equipment management. Judy C. will do walking rounds to assess
that this process is working. There will also be a set # of
stretchers specific to this area and this # will be maintained
at all times. Issues related to the OR equipment and scheduling
will be addressed in a separate OR specific meeting. Judy, C
will follow up with Maggie concerning Call and Main OR
scheduling. All OR nurses are expected to be relieved at the end
of their shift and to receive break relief in a timely
manner.
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8. Issue: Flies and Mice.
Believe it or not! UMDNJ has a Fly/Mice Committee.
Resolution: The exterminators are working diligently to
eradicate this infestation, but will need staff’s
assistance as well. Nursing assistants are asked to remove all
trays left over in pt rooms and place them into an assigned
Dietary Cart located at the freight elevator area. If there is
no Dietary cart in the freight area, Assistants are to notify
the unit's manager. Management wants to avoid having trays left
in the pantry on units (this attracts insects). All microwave
units and refrigerators in nurses lounge, are to be cleaned on a
regular basis. If any unit is unable to maintain these items,
management will remove these items from the lounges to prevent
further infestation.
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9. Issue: FICN nurses floated
to GPICU due to low census and were assigned nurse manager
duties. Resolution: Judy C. states going forward nurses
who are floated would do bargaining unit work within their scope
of practice and not management work.
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