Is this the End of the Charge Nurse as We Know It?
2015-06-12
By Mathew Keller RN JD, Regulatory and Policy Nursing Specialist
It is with growing concern that MNA has received reports of increasingly ineffective charge nurse utilization in our hospitals. If you’ve been in nursing for more than a few years, you’ve seen the trend yourself: charge nurses have quickly gone from having no patient assignment, to having a few admits or discharges as needed, to always having half of an assignment, to always having a full assignment… to having two floors?
This alarming new trend is to assign the nurse variously described as a given unit’s “resource,” “foreperson,” and “air-traffic controller” to two units at once.
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