I have the most wonderful LPN's on my unit. Anyone of them will get up to help someone who is sinking and are very hard workers. I have an RN on nights who likes to pretend that the only real nurse is an RN. She makes the lives of the LPN's as hard as she can and I have spoken to her many, many times about her attitude and behavior towards them. I wish we didn't have to put her in charge at all, but really nights is just filled with new people who aren't prepared for that responsibility. Well, last week, after listening to another one of my dayturn LPN's crying in my office about her assignment, I made a decision. (First, let me explain, this woman thinks that the LPN's should have every tube feed, contact isolation, confused and combative patient on the unit:madface: After all, all they do is pass meds, don't kill me, her thoughts NOT mine.) So the complaints are very real....Anyway, tonight when she came on I sat her down and told her that I have had some more complaints about the assignments she is giving out. That the LPN's are afraid to say anything because they are afraid it will get worse. SO, MY solution to this problem is this, in the future we will be watching the assignments given to the LPN's. If for ANY reason we feel that it is an unfairly heavy patient load, when she comes back that evening SHE will have the assignment on nights that she gave the LPN on days. So, how long before she starts giving fairly assigned patients?
