56 Posts
You sound like you are required to do what a charge nurse does. Ditto on the clarification of your title, role and responsibilities with your hiring manager. If the agency nurses act like that , you are right not to hire them back. Agency or not, you've got to be a team player. They need to leave the attitude at the door and do what needs to be done. Hang in there!
12,854 Posts
Has your employer given you authority over other nursing staff in writing?
Are they paying your to act in a supervisory capacity?
If the answer to those questions is no, then you are not the charge nurse and you should not behave as one. Unless you feel like giving away your professional talents to for profit corporations.
243 Posts
I would not consider you a charge nurse, more like a resource nurse for the agency nurse. But you should check with your management for a definitive answer.
I do think you should consider how you are coming across to the agency nurse, though. I know if I were working with only one other nurse and that nurse took it upon herself to TELL me what I could do and when, as opposed to NEGOTIATING how the two of us would handle things, I would probably resent it.
368 Posts
How about asking your manager to hire a couple of prn nurses so agency nurses are not an issue. I agree with the other commentors that a policy and procedure for your position is in order. Try looking at your specific State Regulations for Outpatient Surgery Centers. I would be willing to bet your answer could be found there.
klone, MSN, RN
14,798 Posts
You would need to ask your manager that. I would say that nobody here could answer that for you, as we have no idea what your facility's intent was when they hired you.