lazy charge nurses

[cupcake25]

Yesterday a nurse working on a med surg floor was so busy that she did not even have time to go to the bathroom and was incontinent of urine. She was very upset. It was after 2 pm until she even had time to have a lunch break. She told the charge nurse who has no patients that she was drowning. The charge nurse offered no help and proceeded to leavethe unit to go work on paperwork. I feel the behavior of this charge nurse was terrible. That is her job to provide an extra pair of hands when needed. No wonder nurses are leaving bedside nursing.

[Eirene, ASN, RN]

That's too bad.

[JB2007, ASN, RN]

When I first started working as a nurse I would hold my urine so long that I was getting UTIs all the time. I never had an episode of incontience. Maybe I should have so I would not have had the UTIs all the time. Really, if she needed to use the restroom that bad she just needs let one of her co-workers know to yell into the restroom if someone codes. Thats what I finally had to do if I thought one of my pts was that bad. Nobody has died yet because I went to the restroom.