what you don't like about your supervisor

I've had many supers over the years..and the one thing that bugs me is someone who wants the TITLE..not the job..the type that dissapears when things get 'hairy' ...to me a supervisor should be the 'calm in a storm'..come into the situation and take charge with calm authority..the one you call when you are unsure and need a level head..not panic when things aren't going just right....:)

I've had many supers over the years..and the one thing that bugs me is someone who wants the TITLE..not the job..the type that dissapears when things get 'hairy' ...to me a supervisor should be the 'calm in a storm'..come into the situation and take charge with calm authority..the one you call when you are unsure and need a level head..not panic when things aren't going just right....:)

Thank you for your input this will help.

I love my supervisor as a person, but her nursing skills are way outdated and she tends to minimize issues till they are larger than they need to be. On the plus side, I have tons of autonomy because she trusts me and my judgement, and rarely questions me( usually she is the one asking me for advice)

I'm happy to say that I've only had less than a handful of nurse managers who were very weak in their ability to manage others. The ones that were plain awful had no personality, no gumption to stand up for their nurses, and obviously forgot "how to be a nurse" when the situation called for her to be. In spite of their advanced degrees, even I could have done an A-1 job compared to what they LACKED!

The BEST nurse manager I've ever had was a man. He was very together as a person, a leader, and as a nurse. :)

I love my supervisor as a person, but her nursing skills are way outdated and she tends to minimize issues till they are larger than they need to be. On the plus side, I have tons of autonomy because she trusts me and my judgement, and rarely questions me( usually she is the one asking me for advice)

Thank you so very much:rolleyes:

I love my supervisor as a person, but her nursing skills are way outdated and she tends to minimize issues till they are larger than they need to be. On the plus side, I have tons of autonomy because she trusts me and my judgement, and rarely questions me( usually she is the one asking me for advice)

I am so grateful for all this wonderful input.

I don't like my manager's inconsistency. She'll do one thing one time, and another thing later. Sometimes, I swear she makes up the rules as she goes along and forgets the rule she made up yesterday.

She also jumps to conclusions about a situation without getting all the facts.

She's a good manager though. We all have our good and bad points. I wouldn't work for a manager I was unhappy with. I spent 7 years with this manager, transferred to other departments for a few years and now I'm back with her. She's been good to me and I can't really complain.

things I do not like in a manager: outdated skills, being closed minded to staff suggestions for "better" way to do things, being inconsistant with rules for staff unless it is a true emergency, lack of appreciation for job done in time of stress, short staffing, or emergency. lack of staff support when administration is demanding, not asking, for too much work/too many hours.

how they ignore long term staff members and the contributations long term staff give to a unit. I hate to hear about her/his love life, illness, money situations, and fashion preferences unless it affect what I wear to work.

My supervisor is the director of nurses and I like her very much. I think she is trying to do her best. However, I hate mandatory meetings especially since I work nights and am too tired to get up for the 2pm meetings. It seems we are always having "mandatory meetings.' :angryfire

My current supervisor is an awesome nurse, manager, and person.

In the past, my pet peeve against one manager was her propensity to show favoritism. It made all the rest of us feel like we'd never get a requested day off, or vacation when we needed it, or be able to call off sick without getting written up. Others would be taken ahead of us when requesting a shift change or anything else. It was irritating and frustrating to see that some people could just drop a hint when the rest of us had to stand on our heads to get the simplest request granted.

Quitting there only made me appreciate my present situation that much more.

i had a supervisor one time that just seemed to have her head buried in the sand.

the nurses would report sick patients and for some unknown reason, she would either live behind her desk or spend her time straightening out pt's laundry, putting them in the correct drawers, just all this piddly, meaningless stuff.

too many of our patients got worse because it took her that long to go in and assess the situation- important to add that she was a control freak and only she could be in control, no one else.

but because she had been there so many years, upper mgmt, specifically adon who was her personal friend, ended up asking me 'what should we do about this' and had admitted she heard same complaints from other nurses.

i remember one time i had this trach patient who was spiking a temp of 103, foley output minimal compared to input with her urine turbid. i told mgr we need to call the md and she didn't see the reason for it. we got into a professional argument telling her that if she didn't call, i would. ended up this patient had a uti with mrsa.

just don't understand what people think sometimes.

also she had absolutely no backbone and depended on me to be 'the voice'. in other words she would complain to me about stuff, hoping i would do something about it. it took me yrs but i finally stopped being the bad guy.

leslie

My nurse manager and charge nurse are both wonderful nurses and women! I get very frustrated because my nm tends to agree with management over staffing issues, but, when she comes to the floor, she does listen to us and then stands up for us. My charge nurse will just tell management how things are on the floor at that time and won't allow management to run us over with new admits all at the same time, send someone home when we are expecting new arrivals, etc. Both nm and charge nurse are great about helping us when there is a question, problem, unruly family member, all the things that happen daily.

My nurse manager is new (1 yr to her position) and trained under another favorite nurse manager of mine. I have had a nurse manager that would not stand up for us at all. I stayed with her a year until I transferred to another unit. There I met my first favorite nm and then she talked me into giving the new nm a try and have been with her since she started on her floor. My first favorite nm still calls me and checks with me, always telling me that I will always have a position with her if I want it.