I work in a nursing home on the night shift. My facility has hired a new nurse (just out of school but I don't think that lack of experience is the problem) who makes a lot of errors (medication errors, ommisions of treatments, documentation in the wrong chart....) and just plain leaves the nursing station in a shambles (charts misplaced, papers and notes on the desk, forms misfiled in the wrong bin....) When I try to address these things during report she says the she will clean it up that she has work to finish but she always leaves with the mess still there. As the night shift I take report from 2 nursing stations and care for 85 residents so I am not in that section of the building unless I choose to go and stand over her- using up my precious time. Any suggestions other than tattling to the D.O.N. because historically that doesn't help.
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