Mandatory Nurse Manager Transfer

[BirdieRN]

Looking for anyone with relating experiences to mandatory nurse manager transfers in their facility. Recent experience with the following:

Nurse manager of Telemetry was told she was going to be transfered to critical care.

Nurse manager has no critical care experience.

No education on critcal care was made available.

Offer was refused, was deemed a "forced resignation".

Nurse manager refused on the grounds that 50% of the position is paperwork 50% is staff evaluation, mentoring, education and training. Being unable to do half of the position puts patients being cared for at risk of inferior quality of care.

Would love to know your opionions on this matter, especially if you have had any type of similar experience.

Thanks

[BirdieRN]

Would like to add there was a med /surg manager position available, in addition to staff positions that were not allowable options from the administration. The Telemetry position was eliminated by combining two telemetry units, & the less experienced (lower paid) manager received that position. No disciplinary actions were ever given to the nurse manager.

Never have I seen a manager without the basic knowledge of the unit hired. While many managers have clinical experience, the leadership experience is something that can be learned "on the job". What do you think?

[vivacious1healer]

At NMH there has been many changes in Director positions, Staff Educators, who knows what next!

The Neuro/Ortho director now transferred to ER Director position. They just recently took away all of the staff educators jobs (there are 2 RNs per floor), and now these RNs work full time on the floor (before they worked 1 shift on floor, and the other 2 shifts doing education/going to meetings/etc). The idea is to have 1 Staff educator for several different floors, and probably different specialties !yikes! So now there will be an RN that will be educating in areas that are not their specialties, and won't be up to date regarding care for the patient on the floor since their entire job will require just the educational component.

Its all about that B-word = $$BUDGET$$

[morte, LPN, LVN]

i presume you are not union....sigh.....because it is money and perhaps personality....tell her to collect for as long as she can.....good luck