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We have two new twenty-somethings that just graduated a few months ago from nursing school who are our supervisors, yes-they are supervisors of nurses who have been nurses 8-10 years. All they do is complain for a full 8 hours, not exaggerating. They never had another job in their life and expect everything to be perfect at the end of the shift when they take over. If not, they expect the previous shift to stay and complete "their" work. All we get is bratty back talk as soon as they come in. God-forbid they have to get a stool sample that was not able to be obtained or a dressing that was unable to be done because the pt was in an activity. With them there is no 24/7 and it is causing some of us to stay much later and getting in trouble from overtime. We are now starting to document everything in writing to the ADON but it does not help.

Anyone have any suggestions out there?

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Specializes in Gerontology, Med surg, Home Health.

Why would new nurses be hired as supervisors? Can't you talk to them peer to peer?

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Supervisors have managers.. who have managers... there is a hierarchy and these young girls are not at the top. Supervisors must model professional behaviour at all times to their team. If they are not, report them. It doesn't matter how old or how young a supervisor is.. that is ageism and it is about as bad as racism. If someone is educated and has a positive/willing attitude to be helpful and learn then perhaps they can supervise.. but the bad attitude you are describing needs to be reported to their manager.

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Specializes in Med-surg, telemetry, oncology, rehab, LTC, ALF.

Their age doesn't matter. Their attitude and conduct do. If they're being unprofessional, talk to their supervisor.Schedule

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I work with a lot of twenty-somethings that are absolutely wonderful. I want to hug them everytime I work with them. I just gave you their ages to give you their background of being tweinty-something and no previous job.

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Been there, done that! Two of our so-called "Clinical Resource Nurses" have been RNs for less than 5 years, and neither one has a clue how to handle crisis situations. They are, however, both very glib and good at climbing the political ladder.

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