nrsalli

Hello everyone, I am kind of new to this forum. First time posting. I have been in LTC for 8 years, supervisor of 4 LNs. Few months back, we had a nurse who would not do her job, would not pass all her meds, refused to do treatments, did the 1730 and 2030 med pass during one pass at 1730 so she could sit and watch T.V. for a couple of hours each night before her shift was over. Yes, this sounds strange, but really happened. Yes, she was turned in several times to the DNS, but they refused to fire her for this neglect. The other LNs were upset, angry that she was allowed to continue to work. DNS would not terminate her, just waited it out (3-months) until she quit. Now the other nurses have no respect for management which in turn changed their attitude about getting all their work done. The attitude is, "who cares, the DNS won't fire us if we do not do our work." The DNS is unaware of this attitude, and wants to know why I cannot seem to manage the LNs. Its so complicated, not sure what to do. I have brought up to the DNS about some of the workload not being done, due to the nurses to busy doing their homework on the job, but no response.