Time management

Specialties Cardiac

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Specializes in RN, BSN, CHDN.

There is an RN on the floor where I work who never ever leaves on time. One day a couple of weeks ago she didnt leave the floor to go home until 10pm!!! Our shift finishes at 19.15pm I just cant imagine what she is doing until that time, I would love to help her with her time management, has anybody else encountered this problem and how did you help this nurse to become more efficiant manageing her time?

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You can offer to help her with some tips for time management, or you can offer to help her at different times during the shift if you are caught up with your own work and see that she is falling behind. However, if she gets offended or is not willing to listen to your advice there really is nothing you can do except leave her to her own devices. She will either learn to speed things up and get out on time or close to on time, or she will continue to spend her own time doing things that could have been managed during the time for which she is getting paid. It's a shame that she is wasting some of her own time, but only she can make the changes necessary to alleviate her problem. Good luck in trying to help her.

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Specializes in RETIRED Cath Lab/Cardiology/Radiology.

What is she doing from 1915 till 10pm?

Is she a fairly new grad (no offense intended towards new grads, BTW)?

Have you approached her about this? (e.g., I notice you're here late [a lot] or [tonight], are you OK with your assignments/tasks, or do you need help doing ------- ?)

It's nice of you to want to help her; it's hard to know how to help without knowing WHY she's consistently late.

Has anyone else mentioned or noticed this?

Seems this might fall under the Unit Mgr's umbrella. . .

I'm interested to know how you (or whoever) handles this.

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Specializes in Post Anesthesia.

We have a nurse of 20+ years experience that is frequently hanging around puttering with her charting 2-3 hrs after the end of her shift. I don't know if she clocks out or is sticking the place with a couple of hours of O.T each day but that isn't my problem. If it isn't a problem for the hospital you work for or the nurse herself then I'd just leave it alone. Some people, myself included, need a bit of time off the clock to disengage before they drive home.

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I agree with suanna's idea about disengaging before the drive home. But I'd rather go to the lounge with a soda and sit back and close my eyes for ten minutes instead of hanging around the charts for two to three hours. That is too much. But as long as she is not in anybody's way, or is not impediing the current shift's work flow, I guess, who cares?

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