I don't understand how a charge nurse can be lazy. At my job, there are permanent charge nurse positions. Charge nurses don't take patients (except for one charge nurse who does, who has won awards because she really is an amazing nurse, but she's on the shift opposite as mine). We have three during my shift. There is one charge nurse on our unit that 9/10 times is sitting down and talking about her personal life or gossiping. Plus, she talks a lot of crap about the new hires on our floor and nurses on other floors (all people who she doesn't know very well). That is disrespectful and I don't look up to people like that.
10% of the time I've heard her talking or doing actions that pertain to nursing. She brings down the productivity of the other charge nurses that we have any day that she is there. When she isn't there, the other charge nurses actually do their jobs.
She has had her position for 5 years. She only helps out when she feels like it, which is 30% of the time. She rides the staff all the time and 90% of the staff ARE always complaining about how she does nothing & isn't helpful. All she does is bark orders and tell you what to do and expects you to get everything done all at once.
Us floor nurses are running our a**** off, balls to the wall with being busy and she's a professional a** sitter and just watches us run around like crazy. She never offers to take patients, never offers to give pain medication, never offers to take report, never offers to do ****. You ask her, she gives you the run around or mysteriously disappears. She has to get asked by the manager to do something & that's even a stretch.
Our manager is great, but she favors this nurse & has other favorites on the unit who also don't do much of anything (the people who suck up to her) which is also talked about amongst the rest of the staff who don't believe in sucking up.
We're able to voice our complaints but are only able to do so at work when we get a free moment, which is oh, at lunch time. I've currently complained and plan to say something again to someone higher up than my manager. Many others have complained too but it seems like it hasn't helped. And this issue is prevalent on other floors too in my hospital.
Any suggestions would be great.
I have no problem with talking to your co-workers for a bit during the day but when you have work/tasks to do, get them done and then have your chat sessions.
MJJFan1, BSN, RN
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Do we work together? Sounds like my charge nurse lol.