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on our unit we have a charge nurse 3-11 shift.her job is to help out the nurses,assign beds and problem solve.the problem is -she does not do her job well.she has had this job for over a year.

her assignments are uneven 1nurse with 6 pts./1 nurse with 3 pts.-so the nurse with 3 pts.gets the first admits.she says she will help you but if she does you have to wait an hour to start an iv or help admit a pt.she will assign you 1-2 admits ata time.she oftens asked another nurse to do her work.

her assignments are not out in a timely manner and ofter are not correct.one time we had a pt go bad and sent him to the unit-she asked another nurse to go to the unit with the pt and his nurse-and she swept the floor. i mentioned to her 1 night i had apt not doing well-prob.going to icu and she told the doctor"the apples are ready if you want to come pick".she did not help me with my pt.one employee spoke to the DON about her and she got into trouble.any suggestions

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The charge nurse does not seem to take her job seriously, is unorganized, or lazy. I haven't been a floor RN for a few years but I don't understand why one nurse would get 2 admits and another no admits. Does she have a rationale for her uneven assignments? Unless the RNs with less pts have higher acuity? I think the best thing for you to do would be to discuss this with your manager. Continue to document details so that you can make clear examples of decisions the charge nurse is making. Good luck!

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now this nurse is working days and things have not changed.But now she is having nurses who have been out of school 6 months being charge.I personally feel this is putting too much pressure on them.And now she is having these "new grads"precept other new nurses.Does this make sense??

and i have another problem i have been precepting a new employee r n.he used to work psych but then quit nursing for 4 years.He is now working a med surg floor.He gets easily frustrated and needs to work on time management.but more than that i think he needs to go back to a nursing refresher course.does anyone know where there is such a class??

and i have one other comment/question.we have 2 nurses-both work days.they usually have 4-5 occ 6 pts.they are here everyday until 6-6:630 charting.their shift is over at 3:30.we do computerize charting so i can't figure out why it takes them so long and neither can they

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MY SISTER IN LAW DIED AFTER DEVELOPING DIC AFTER A HYSTERECTOMY,SHE HAD A HX OF CABG AND VALVE REPLACEMENT,WAS A NIDM AND HAD CIRRHOSOS OF THE LIVER OF UNKNOWN CAUSE,SHE HAD HAD A CARDIAC CATH WHICH CLEARED HER FOR SURGERY.SHE WAS ONLY 48.I KNOW YOU ARE NOT SUPPOSED TO GIVE ADVICE BUT WOULD YOU CONSIDER THIS NORMAL.BP IN THE 70'S POST OP NORMALLY 110 PRE OP,WAS NOT IN A MONITORED CARE SETTING.THE 2ND DAY POST OP HER PRESSURE WAS STILL LOW,SHE WAS LETHARGIC AND HAVING ABD PAIN AND NAUSEA,I WAS HER HEALTH CARE POWER OF ATTORNEY.WHEN I CALLED TO CHECK ON HER HER NURSE DID NOT KNOW HER LAB RESULTS????:angryfire

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