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FVPA Bargaining Survey

Bargaining Issues

Our contract expires on February 1, 2013 and we are preparing for negotiations now!

The elected Bargaining Team (BT) will use your survey answers as a guide in developing proposals for negotiations. Every RN/Professional needs to fill out the survey to ensure your voice is heard.

Please rate the following issues according to the scale. It is important that you make distinctions between items. If you respond "extremely important" to every question, we will not know what issues are relatively important to you. Please reserve "extremely important" for those items which are truly extremely important - this will give those responses more weight.

Surveys must be completed by October 12, 2012.
1.Name
2.Home Phone Number
3.Cell Phone Number
4.Home Email
5.Bargaining Issues
Extremely Important
Very Important
Somewhat Important
Not Very Important
Improve/protect health insurance benefits
Improve wages: base hourly pay
Improve wages: shift differential
Improve wages: on-call pay
Improve wages: BSN/Masters differential
Establish order for calling in staff to work - i.e. staff on extra shift before outside registry
Improve staffing by patient acuity
Improve education/tuition reimbursement
Improve PTO accrual
Designate permanent Charge RNs/permanent Lead Professionals
Improve language on OT hours worked
Expand unit-specific specialty certifications
Improve longevity incentives
Protect (grandfathered) IHR
Establish the "Box" system as a tool to ensure equitable distribution of canceled work hours
6.Please Check Your Unit/Department Assignment
7.Shift
8.Hours in a Shift
9.Status
10.Years in Nursing
11.Patient Care and Safety
Strongly Agree
Agree
Don't Know
Disagree
Strongly Disagree
My ability to deliver quality patient care is being affected by inadequate staffing levels
Management staffs my unit according to patient acuity
Management is more focused on money than patient care when making decisions
Management always takes effective action in response to RN/Professional concerns about patient care issues
My ability to deliver quality patient care is hampered by cuts in support services (e.g. unit secretaries, techs, CNAs or LVNs)
Management often attempts to assign me more patients than are currently acceptable according to the staffing ratio requirements
When health inspection officials (i.e. JCAHO, DHS) visit my facility, management makes things look and/or operate better than usual
My department/unit is always in compliance with the ratios for breaks
12.Do you work at any other hospital
13.If there is something in the contract you would like to see improved, please write it here.