So on my floor, we have 2 charge nurses, are budgeted for one, and so they work three 12's a week. One works Mon-Tues-Wed, the other Wed-Thurs-Fri, and then that one comes back to work the next Mon-Tues-Wed, then has like 8 days off. Then they are only free from 7-3, then pick up patients from 3-7, causing a regular nurse to be pulled to another floor (it's miserable). I like one of the charges, but only maybe one nurse can stand to work with the other. Another nurse actually quit because this particular person got the charge nurse position. She is going back to school to get her BSN, and literally calls people on other floors the whole shift to get help with paper writing, has printed at least an entire pack of paper worth of material that is school related at work, will shove her school work in front of you while you're trying to chart to ask for help, has actually complained to patients and their families about needing to work on her papers, and has openly talked about hiring people to write a paper or two for her, and continues to claim how 'honest' she is and how hard she is working on getting her degree. She then neglects her charge duties, or does them and complains about having to get up from the computer. She also thinks it's her duty to tell other nurses all the things they do wrong, even though she is obviously not the most qualified to call them out (literally had another nurse crying to me today about her doing this). I have gone to my manager, and she talked to her, but it hasn't changed a thing. The only thing it did was she has to sort of 'sneak' to do it at work, but our manager leaves her office so infrequently she never notices any of it. I am a bit passive, and hate confrontation, so I haven't talked to the charge nurse yet. What would you do? She makes work awful.
NoADLs is, as her screenname suggests, quite notorious around here for bragging of her extreme laziness and ability to be efficiently lazy. She's been flamed here for pages on how lazy she claims to be.
Lately, though, she's been growing on me. She appears to be quite witty, and dare I say it, fun.
So the comment regarding spending a day with her is sort of an inside joke that a large number (most? almost all?) of us are in on. She claims to be a charge nurse in a facility that has allowed her to refuse to participate in any tasks related to ADLs with patients. She intentionally got this job for that reason, and boasts of it incessantly, takes no offense and brags about it when others complain/call her out for her laziness. Does that about sum it up NoADLs?
Thanks for the clarification.
I would not work with her. To repeat, there is more than one way to skin a cat.
NOADLS is a young guy who is pretty spot on and really funny. He makes no bones about his modus operandi for working nights in LTC, i.e., less work more $. He says he wears the same uniform color as housekeeping to avoid interacting with visitors.
NOADLS is a young guy who is pretty spot on and really funny. He makes no bones about his modus operandi for working nights in LTC, i.e., less work more $. He says he wears the same uniform color as housekeeping to avoid interacting with visitors.
That is hilarious. I am going to have to go back and read some of his posts.
I think you had legitimate complaints in the dept. of her interrupting your work and others' work at the job, "shoving" things in front of you while you are charting, etc. At least in that respect, could you quietly and calmly ask her to not do that, that you feel you only have enough time to do your job? I know that may not work because she sounds very self-focused, IMO. There are always a couple of bad news nurses at any job, it seems. Too bad she's a charge nurse ontop of it!
Adding - I just read that she helps quite a bit with admissions, errands to other depts, teaching, etc. That part sounded maybe worth her other negatives.
NOADLS is a young guy who is pretty spot on and really funny. He makes no bones about his modus operandi for working nights in LTC, i.e., less work more $. He says he wears the same uniform color as housekeeping to avoid interacting with visitors.
Hilarious about the uniform!!! Bahaha I should try that!
NOADLS is a young guy who is pretty spot on and really funny. He makes no bones about his modus operandi for working nights in LTC, i.e., less work more $. He says he wears the same uniform color as housekeeping to avoid interacting with visitors.
Funny or spot on is not an excuse for slacking or deserving of admiration.
Everyone on that unit is on the same lifeboat. Everyone needs to paddle.
Funny or spot on is not an excuse for slacking or deserving of admiration.
Everyone on that unit is on the same lifeboat. Everyone needs to paddle.
AGREED! If you read more of NoADLs posts, you'll see she's not quite as lazy as she plays off. I mean, I genuinely believe she feels ADLs are beneath her and I completely believe she avoids them, but you'll see a post every now and then where she talks about what she's done previously in certain scenarios. I bet she's actually not so bad after all. Although I admit I'm not 100% convinced still she isn't a troll.
And now I feel icky for defending her. I'll be in a scalding hot shower if any of you needs me.
The positives you listed in post #5 far outnumber the positives I could list about some bad supervisors in the past. I would put up with the situation. Hopefully it will be time limited and she will improve once school is over. (One can always hope!)
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Thanks for the clarification.
I would not work with her. To repeat, there is more than one way to skin a cat.