rant-the weekend

Argh=I've got to get this out.I had the weekend from H#ll.Here it is-the 2nd week of September and we found not 1,not 2 but 5 major med/transcription errors on the MAR's on the unit I worked on this weekend (I am a full time float and I like it that way) The 2 nurses with me yesterday work on that unit full time and tried to focus blame everywhere but on themselves.By the time I found the 3rd,4th and 5th error they both had to admit their responsibility and one was crying and the other was throwing up...Both blamed everything on the 'lack of leadership" from the charge nurse .This is true-she did not want to be the charge-no one really does in our facility.There is no additiional pay but you get all the responsibility.And-our DON expects day shift to pick up the pieces always-we have been told numerous times if new orders are written over nite,prn psych drugs given etc,it is up to us to double check in the am that the proper documenation was done..I've learned to just" go and do"...These newer nurses seem to want to make the other shifts "do" and don't want to accept responsibility for anything.How can you pass meds for 9 days to the same 20 residents and not notice things like-and HS med being circled for 7 days in a row and noted as "unavailable" without taking the initiave to call the pharmacy? Not read the MAR and see that a resident is supposed to receive k-dur bid but is only getting it daily at 9a because no one ever wrote in 5p or 9 pm on the MAR? No one reads the entire order? They just open up the med drawer and grab one of everything? D/C a med and fail to remove it from the med cart or d/c it on the MAR? An anti-hypertensive,no less......It just went on and on...Meanwhile on Saturday myself and another prn nurse worked that floor while the full time regular nurse pretty much did nothing..I'm dreading going in toworrow because I don't want to end up on that floor....We have very few RN's in house-most of our charge nurses are lpn's....The main problem really seems to be the newer less experienced nurses...They seem to pick and choose where they want to work,what they are going to do-and everything is someone else 's fault...I feel sorry for the residents.....I'm praying that I don't have to give up my floating........