What is it with managers at shift change?

Nurses General Nursing

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Flitting around, trying to get THEIR business done with us while WE, the staff nurses, are trying to take shift report and get all the details on 4-5 patients in a 30 minute time period? ?

They will give us about 15 minutes, and then they call their "huddles" and try to give their talks, or try to catch up with whatever nurse they can to harass and beat on -- I mean, CRAP -- IT'S CHANGE OF SHIFT!! Let us do our jobs, get a start on our day already!! You've got the next 8 hrs to do all of this ...

Want staff to get a memo -- then send out a memo for us to read at home...I don't have time during shift change to absorb every unit and company policy change you've got to dish out!

Ugh. Made me so mad this a.m. I was busting my BUTT to get report on 4 complicated patients -- we were all straining to get report done and our automated report system was "down" (of course). If we don't get it done and stay after, they are beating up on us because we are staying too late!!

I just continue in amazement at the ways managers strive to impede our workday, yet expect us to churn out a consistent excellent quality work within a 12 hr impossible time period.

:banghead:

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Specializes in Day Surgery, Agency, Cath Lab, LTC/Psych.

There is hardly enough time to get through an entire report in 30 minutes, let alone updates and inservices!!!

You should speak with your manager about this. This is an inappropriate time and place for him or her to be educating staff.

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It is really, Dolce? I'm a new nurse, so I dont' know. I mean -- they gather us for "atta girls" and stuff like that, reminders, etc. They don't do inservices -- but then again -- I DO remember some nurses being pulled to an -in service the other morning at shift change on the new call bell system!

It's crazy. I think they truly forget what it is we nurses really do.

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Specializes in med/surg, telemetry, IV therapy, mgmt.

Managers do this because no one shows up when they have planned meetings. I know, because I was a manager. They are trying to be efficient and save time, just like you are. So, we had to take advantage of the times when as many staff as possible were around--and change of shift is one of them. How many times should the manager have to repeat the information they have to pass on to the staff? 1, 2, 5, 10 times? How many times are you willing to repeat instructions to your subordinate staff working with you before you start to think, "hmm, there's got to be a more efficient and time saving way to do this."

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Specializes in ICU.

our manage must be unique. she reads the situation and does nothing but support us...actually lends a hand, covers an assignment, and readily acknowledges when the skills at hand are over her head. god bless our manager! we love her! she's one of us......hard to do when taking that step into management. when she has an important memo she prints it and puts copies of them on the staff locker room door and in the bathroom......2 places she knows everyone must go at some point in their day......she's a very smart lady!:redbeathe

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