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oh, she knows, this has been brought to her on numerous occasions and she responds to her nurses by saying "well, .......... has been with us for so long, and she is set in her ways and we can't change her. so we just need to adapt to her." I say No. she needs to get a grip of the unit. she is the manager.

believe me, I truly can see your point and I do understand that nurse managers are busy with other things. But I have to say this and I don't mean to offend. First of all, I am very proud of you for helping out your unit the way you did and I can see that maybe you did this to a point that you could not do your job. But I also have to say this. SHAME, SHAME, SHAME on a manager that is ABSOLUTELY NOT WILLING TO FILL IN OR HELP OUT. My nurse manager has an ASSOC. degree just like me. she now feels that her ------ doesn't stink. she comes to work most days dressed in professional clothes and not scrubs. (easy not to have to work the floor dressed like the ordinary person huh?) she goes to meetings that really don't matter like magnet status. please, lets get real, if you are going to obtain magnet status, your staff needs to be full, and you don't have problems like this. i am really proud of you for what you did. i wish i had worked for you.

no, i am not a NEW nurse. And I would like to add that I was giving blood to one on my patients, another was in restraints and was able to get out of all of her restraints, no matter what you did, and another was on a heparin drip because of a DVT even though he was post surgical and had a very large abdominal incision that was leaking blood and bleeding profusely. What kind of nurse are you anyway? Whoever you are that responded to this. You must be a super hero nurse and can handle all. No, I am NOT A NEW NURSE. I am a seasoned nurse. And I know that if I have a patient load like this, and another nurse only has one patient, they need to be the one to take the new admit. Gosh, I would not want you to take care of me. You think you are it, don't you. Get a grip guy or gal, you are not above the rest of us. Sounds to me like you are the one that is the new nurse. Whatever, wait till your day comes.

what do you think about charge nurses or nurse managers, that never work the floor anymore? do they think they are above and beyond their call to duty? do they think they don't need to do the "hard work" anymore? Even, if people call in sick and they let their staff work short because they have "other things to do?" please, your opionion matters. a nurse is a nurse in my opinion. I know our managers are busy, but if you were a manager, would you let your staff work short, rather than picking up the slack? This is a big issue with me

when you go to management about things and nothing happens, has anyone ever thought of filing a civil suit against a nurse that delegates new patients to a nurse that already has 5 patients and some of the other nurses on staff have only 1 nurse because of discharges. Then the nurse that still has 5 patients, gets an admit before the one that only has one patient left? please respond. even if you don't want to file a civil suit - this is not safe patient care. i would like to know your take on this. it is important. thank you.

well, let me tell you I AM HOT:( I am currently working out my 3 week notice. I worked mon, and tues and not again until Sat. but at this point and time, I am not so sure I will even go in on Sat. because of what happened today. There is this charge nurse that I have. We were overstaffed today by one nurse but she kept the other nurse and let her just "help out" all day. She didn't make her take patients or anything. She was worried that we would loose our unit secretary at 3:00. We are a 21 bed unit. So, we had one CNA (one who is not capable of doing blood sugars, foleys, etc.) she basically only does baths. She was only assigned to like 1/2 of the patients. Well, at 3 - staffing did give us another unit secretary. She kept the extra nurse and continued to allow her to just "help" out. I had 5 patients at this point. Some of the patients from the other nurses had been discharged and one nurse only had 1 patient left at this point. But the charge nurse assigned the next admit to me and told me that the "extra nurse" could do all of the paperwork on my admission. I said, it would help us out a lot more if the extra nurse would take some of the patients and then no one would be as bogged down as we were. I was informed that this would be fine. But that I would still be the next one for an admission. I am livid. I work my tail off. I never sat down during this shift. I declined help. I said, no I will go ahead and take my admission and I will not give any of my patients up because i ALREADY KNOW THEM. I am irrate, because this charge nurse delegated wrong as she always does. I would love to know your take on this. please. I feel like anyone who is in charge should be looking out for the patients. When one nurse only has 1 patient and she gives an admit to someone else who has 5 and 3 of the 5 are heavy patients, this is POOR AND UNSAFE NURSING JUDEGMENT. Saturday is suppose to be my last day. But my last day is today. I will not be taken advantage of in this way. Please respond. I really am upset right now. I entered nursing wanting to help people. On top of everything else, my X hospital is trying to reach MAGNET status. It will never happen like this. Please respond.