Nursing Home "Forcing" Nurses To Be Supervisors

[CruisNrn]

I work for a nursing home facility. I think the facility is about 200 beds plus. There is always conflict at night with the nurses RNs in particular, with who will be supervisor for the night. One night one of the nurses came in to find that she was the night supervisor and was very upset. This RN has about 2 years experience however no experience as a supervisor in a nursing home. She stated that no one had informed her prior to and she had not been trained. This nurse just started working there about 2 months ago. The next day they assigned a new grad to the position who had no prior nursing experience this actually was her first job. They assigned this new grad as supervisor over a nurse who has 30+ year experience and who previously worked as an acting supervisor for the facility. I'm confused because shouldn't a position like this be offered to someone and being that the nurses are taking on more responsibilities they should be compensated in pay, right? It seems to me that these nurses who are not experienced and was not offered the position are being forced into this position. Is this a good move for the facility?

[fallinnstyle]

Interesting question.

At my facility, they have been making this new lpn grad who has only been there about 3 months,,,on her very first nursing job,,,to supervise on night shift. She gets so frustrated coz she still has to run her hall and cart ontop of supervising.

Personally, I think it is insane and I keep telling her she should refuse, but they dont tell her in advance, she shows up for her shift and finds out she's also the supervisor. Facility is similar size to yours at about 200beds.