AN120387 – Nursing Homes, &C., Nurses' (State) Award
The following definitions apply in this award, except where otherwise clearly indicated.
(i) "Assistant in Nursing" means - a person, other than a registered nurse, trainee or enrolled nurse who is employed in nursing duties in a facility.
(ii) "Assistant Director of Nursing" means:-
(a) A person appointed as such in any sized facility and includes a person appointed as the nurse in charge during the evening or night in a facility where the adjusted daily average of occupied beds is not less than 150.
(b) A person appointed as such to a position approved by the employer including persons appointed to be in charge of a ward or group of wards.
(iii) "Association" means - the New South Wales Nurses' Association.
(iv) "Board" means - the Nurses' Registration Board of NSW.
(v) "Clinical Nurse Consultant" means - a registered nurse appointed as such to the position, who has had at least five years' post registration experience and who has in addition approved post registration nursing qualifications relevant to the field in which they are appointed or such other qualifications or experience deemed appropriate by the employer.
(vi) "Clinical Nurse Educator" means - a registered nurse with relevant post registration certificate qualifications or experience deemed appropriate by the employer, who is required to implement and evaluate educational programmes at the nursing home.
The Clinical Nurse Educator shall cater for the delivery of clinical nurse education at the nursing home.
The Clinical Nurse Educator may also be responsible for new employee orientation at the nursing home. A nurse will achieve Clinical Nurse Educator status on a personal basis by being required by the nursing home to provide the educational programmes detailed above.
Nothing in this clause shall affect the role carried out by the Clinical Nurse Specialist as a specialist resource and the Clinical Nurse Consultant in the primary role of clinical consulting, researching etc.
(vii) "Clinical Nurse Specialist":-
(a) In facilities of 250 ADA and above, the definition of a Clinical Nurse Specialist is:
"Clinical Nurse Specialist" means - a registered nurse with specific post registration qualifications and twelve months experience working in the clinical area of her/his specified post registration qualification; or a registered nurse with four years post registration experience in a specific clinical area and working in the clinical area of her/his specified post registration experience.
(b) In facilities of less than 250 ADA the definition for Clinical Nurse Specialist is:
"Clinical Nurse Specialist" means - a registered nurse with specific post registration qualifications and twelve months experience working in the clinical areas of her/his specified post registration qualification.
(viii) "Day Worker" means - a worker who works her/his ordinary hours from Monday to Friday inclusive and who commences work on such days at or after 6.00 am and before 10.00 am, otherwise than as part of the shift system.
(ix) "Deputy Director of Nursing" means - a person appointed to that position or deemed to hold that position pursuant to clause 32, Deputy Director of Nursing and Assistant Director of Nursing, of this award.
(x) "Director of Nursing" means a registered nurse who is registered by her/his employer with the Health Administration Corporation as the person in charge of the facility. There shall be only one person in each facility entitled to be classified as Director of Nursing or whatever title the senior nursing administrator is known by in the individual facility and shall include "Chief Nurse" as defined by the Nursing Homes Act 1988.
(xi) "Enrolled Nurse" means - a person enrolled by the Board as such.
(xii) "Experience" in relation to an enrolled nurse or assistant in nursing means experience both before and/or after the commencement of this award whether within New South Wales or elsewhere and in the case of an enrolled nurse or assistant in nursing who was formerly a student nurse includes experience as such student nurse.
(xiii) "Facility" means - a nursing home or hostel.
(xiv) "Hostel" means - a Hostel as defined as at 1st September 1993 in the Aged and Disabled Persons Care Act 1954 (Commonwealth).
(xv) "Industry of Nursing" means - the industry of persons engaged in New South Wales in the profession of nursing in nursing homes and hostels.
(xvi) "Nurse" includes Registered Nurses, Enrolled Nurses and Assistants in Nursing.
(xvii) "Nurse Educator" means - a registered nurse with a post registration certificate, who has relevant experience or other qualifications deemed appropriate by the employer, and who is appointed to a position of Nurse Educator.
A Nurse Educator shall be responsible for the development, implementation and delivery of nursing education programmes within a nursing home or group of nursing homes. Nurse education programmes shall mean courses conducted such as post registration certificates, continuing nurse education, orientation programmes including new graduate programmes, post enrolment courses for enrolled nurses and where applicable general staff development courses.
A person appointed to a position of Nurse Educator who holds relevant tertiary qualifications in education or tertiary postgraduate specialist clinical nursing qualifications shall commence on the 3rd year rate of the salary scale.
A person appointed as the sole nurse educator for a group of nursing homes shall be paid at the 3rd year rate of the salary scale.
Incremental progression for Nurse Educators shall be on completion of 12 months satisfactory full-time equivalent service, provided that progression shall not be beyond the 3rd year rate unless the person possesses the qualifications detailed in the two previous paragraphs. Persons appointed to the 3rd year rate by virtue of paragraphs 3 and 4 above shall progress to the 4th year rate after completion of 12 months satisfactory full time service.
(xviii) "Nursing Home" means - a Nursing Home as defined as at 1 September 1993 by the Nursing Homes Act, 1988.
(xix) "Registered Nurse" means - a person registered by the Board as such.
(xx) "Senior Nurse Educator" means - a registered nurse with a post registration certificate or appropriate qualifications, who has, or is working towards, recognised tertiary qualifications in education or equivalent and has demonstrated experience and skills in the field of education, and who is appointed to a position of Senior Nurse Educator.
A Senior Nurse Educator shall be responsible for one or more Nurse Educators in the planning, co-ordination, delivery and evaluation of educational programmes such as post registration certificate courses, continuing nurse education, orientation programmes including new graduate programmes, post enrolment courses for enrolled nurses and where applicable general staff development courses either in a nursing home or in a group of nursing homes.
Incremental progression shall be on completion of 12 months' satisfactory service.
(xxi) "Service" for the purpose of clause 6, Salaries, of this award, means - service before or after the commencement of this award in New South Wales or elsewhere as a registered nurse, plus any actual periods on and from 1 January 1971, during which a registered nurse undertook a prescribed geriatric, infants', midwifery, mothercraft or psychiatric training course, or attended a post-graduate course recognised by the Board whether in New South Wales or elsewhere; provided that in the case of service elsewhere than in New South Wales where the period of the prescribed course of training is less than the period of the prescribed course of training in New South Wales, the nurses shall serve a period after graduation equal to the difference between the period of the prescribed course elsewhere than in New South Wales and the period of the prescribed course in New South Wales before becoming entitled to be paid as a registered nurse, general nurse, geriatric nurse, infants' nurse, midwifery nurse, mothercraft nurse or psychiatric nurse as the case may be.
(xxii) "Shift Worker" means - a worker who is not a day worker as defined.
(xxiii) "Trainee Enrolled Nurse" means - a person who is being trained to become an enrolled nurse in a nursing home recognised by the Board for that purpose.
