Charge Nurses

[Maycee]

How many of you still have charge nurses on the floor. I know a lot of hospitals have gotten rid of them and now use a different leadership model. If you have a resource/admit/discharge nurse please tell me how their roles differ from a charge nurse.

[tigereyespeters]

(: i must be sleep deprived!

All of our ORDERS come through on the computer!

LOL

[Care4U391]

We have charge nurses on our floor and they only have to do assignments, they do very little patient care or take no patients. We have an Epic system, we get direct admits with no orders or the doctor can put them in. Charge nurses are use less on our floor because they do not even help with admissions or other patients. The Epic system has eliminated the need for charge nurse or secretaries.