Unit Managers Working as Staff

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How many of you work on units where the manager has 24hr responsibility which includes working as staff when there is no one else to fill in? Our hospital requires it and the managers are dead tired and have no family life due, in my opinion, to upper management not allowing for adequate staff during periods of high census...every Jan-March.

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Our manager is really not able to function on our floor. Her knowledge of our speciality is very sketchy at best. And we never see her at night, ever.

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Specializes in OB, M/S, HH, Medical Imaging RN.
Our manager is really not able to function on our floor. Her knowledge of our speciality is very sketchy at best. And we never see her at night, ever.

I wonder how she got her position in the first place? How can you lead a group of nurses if you can't do what they can do? She can't possibly understand what you all are going through can she? Sounds like the last nurse manager we had and she got fired.

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