Registered Nurse - Acute Care Float Pool

Job Description

Job Description

The Nursing Float Pool Program is designed to provide a flexible, highly skilled workforce to support patient care needs across the hospital, help to improve staffing stability, enhance patient throughput, and promoting high-quality patient outcomes. Float Pool Registered Nurses are organizational resources who support staffing needs across multiple clinical areas based on competency, patient acuity, and operational requirements.

Six-Week Assignment Structure:

• Float pool nurses may be assigned to a primary unit or service area for six-week assignment periods. These assignments provide continuity and staffing stability but do not establish a permanent home unit. Nurses may still be reassigned during any shift based on operational needs.

Float Pool Expectations:

• Float pool nurses are hospital-wide resources and may float to any competency-validated area within their designed track based on patient census, staffing shortages, acuity, patient throughput needs, organizational priorities, or emergency situations.

Scheduling:

• Full-time scheduling commitments will be established by organizational policy. Schedules will generally be posted two weeks in advance when operationally feasible. Every other weekend is a required and consistent component of the schedule. Scheduling of weekday shifts will be determined according to the staffing and operational needs of the unit.

Hurricane Team and Holiday Scheduling:

• Staff will be assigned to a designated hurricane team upon hire. Hurricane team assignments will alternate every other year to ensure equitable distribution of responsibilities during emergency operations.
• Staff will be assigned to work either Thanksgiving or Christmas, in addition to the New Year holiday. The Thanksgiving/Christmas assignment will alternate annually to ensure holiday coverage. Staff who voluntarily elect to work on both Thanksgiving and Christmas may be excused from the New Year's holiday requirement for that year, subject to scheduling needs and leadership approval.

Compensation:

• Float pool nurses may receive a Float Pool differential in addition to applicable shifts, weekends, and premium pay differentials.