Feeling Humiliated and Discouraged

[missnursingstudent19]

The charge nurse on my unit will be leaving in a few months, and I think management was counting on me to take over as new charge nurse after that. Management just told me that I don’t have the leadership skills to be charge nurse and that I’m not ready for it, so when the old charge nurse leaves I have to find a new job. I am just feeling humiliated and discouraged by this. Has anyone else had this happen to them? 

[Ruth_RN]

If I were you, I would sit down with management and ask them for pointers on how to improve myself. If they say that you aren’t ready, then ask them to mentor you into that position if charge nurses is really what you want down the road. 

[Dani_Mila, BSN, RN]

At my job, when my supervisor went on 2 months vacay, they were eyeing me to be the supervisor. I declined so many times, they even tried to be slick and put my name as the supervisor on the schedule list. Supervisor/Charge nurse is so overrated. Sure, it looks nice on the resume, but the end of the day you are the go to person/ problem solver. I have seen many lazy nurses who does not want to initiate to solve issues and instead call on the supervisor instead. I don't want to be that person. The amount of responsibility is too much in my opinion. you have to deal with the shift schedules, cover for nurses who calls out, take care of patients, supervise the floor and staffing as well as the problem/solver. How much is the extra pay? Probably 2 bucks or so. Not worth it for me. Don't feel bad.