I would and have refused to take patients in this situation, if you take a patient and cannot maintain the patients safety then you are liable for anything that happens to the patient. Its my license and no one elses and i feel that as long as nurses like the one you described are willing to take unsafe assingments, the conditions we work under will continue. FYI the ceo of the last hospital i worked for made close to 1.5 million a year. Let him come and tell me to take an unsafe assingment.