corrnurse93

well that's a good point. I guess I just don't know how to address this situation with the manager.

Looking for information on what to do about a co-worker who has a nasty attitude? I started working at this job approx. 1 year ago. There was no orientation to the job (as usual) and I was thrown right into this new environment. I loved it! It was a great job, great hours, decent pay, and not too far from home. After about a month, I noticed the RN was delegating a lot of her work to me. This was fine, I stayed busy and made the day go by quicker. As time has gone on, more work has been delegated.. to the point that I am having difficulty getting my own work done. However, this was not the big issue. My issue is that while I am working like a dog, she is playing candy crush on her phone. When I ask if she could call the pharmacy or help my pull charts, she says she can't or comes up with some excuse of how busy she is.... (candy crush) I should mention our supervisor is her close family. More recently, she has developed a terrible attitude with me. I have never disrespected her authority, and have always done exactly as she asked. The company we work for was bought out about 2 months back and one of the new managers asked me how I felt about her - I didn't say anything negative. I was always taught in nursing school not to be a trouble maker - I choose not to be. But I am not sure I can take much more. She throws charts across the room often, throws medication, yells, curses ( which I do not like), and speaks to me in a degrading manor. I also feel as though patients are being neglected. I was assigned to go through all 1000 charts we had and chart check - I found several errors - Some patients had not had doctors orders followed through with in months - back braces, xrays, halters, and many more. With this new company, I was considering discussing it with the new manager - she said if I had any issues that she was who I needed to talk to. How should I address this with her? This has made me BEYOND upset - I have never worked with someone so lazy, and just down right hateful.

I just recently started a job working at a local detention center. The previous nurses were packaging medications ordered TID in one package for the inmates. This has been corrected by pre-packing medications for AM, NOON, and PM. Guards are giving medications for AM and PM, and weekends/holidays. We are doing Noon pill call. It is quite difficult to pre-package that much medication. Is there a solution? What is the responsibility of the LPN? I am pre-packaging the medications, giving the guards the medications, and having the inmates sign that they took their medication and the guard sign that they administered it. Is this legal? I sign that I administered the NOON medications, as well as the inmates. Guards do the swallow watch and sign that it was done. I guess my question is, is what I am doing legal? Is pre-packing legal? Am I going to lose my license because an inmate didn't swallow his medicine or did not take his weekend dose? What is my responsibility?