 Content: Float OrientationAgreement: Facility and Community Agreements 2001-2003
Date: July 2002
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For Professional Safety Reasons
Insist on reasonable orientation
Some RNs are being “floated” to units with little or no orientation to the procedures of the unit. The practice can put patients, and their nurses, at risk.
What happens if you are “floated” to a unit you are unfamiliar with and something goes wrong? You are responsible for your practice even if the Employer has assigned you to a unit or position where you have not been orientated or sufficiently prepared.
Protect yourself—insist on adequate orientation and if that has not been provided, file a Professional Responsibility Committee (PRC) complaint immediately.
Staffing problems are NO excuse for management practices that compromise safe, quality care to professional standards.
If you encounter a safety or staffing problem that you find professionally unacceptable, there is something you can do about it. Contact UNA.
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