We have 2 nurses on our floor who have been there 20-25 years. They are very smart and very experienced. However they are VERY lazy! They sit around and chat... talk on their cell phone and order the younger nurses around. I am still on orientation and one of them is often my preceptor. I leave work wanting to scream! She says quote "I love it when you are here, I get to sit around and drink coffee while you do all my work, he he." She doesn't mean it in a mean or hateful way....She just likes not having to do anything. I feel she should be along side me, teaching me and helping me. They don't chart everything they are supposed to, they don't take home meds to pharmacy, they don't chart on the pathways... ect ect. I am a new nurse.. I want to learn the correct way to do things. And I respect their seniority but I don't feel it is right for them to order us around while they sit on their butt....
All the other nurses on the floor put up with this and run around doing their job for them... I like the women and they are smart but what should I do? Should I go along with this nonsense as well?