Charge nurse yelled at me in front of family members…
I work at a hospital, and during my 12.5 hour shift I was assigned a 4:1 (1:1 but for 4 people) all of them fall risk including 2 people that had fallen this week..
towards the end of the day two of the fell asleep so I focused on the 2 people that had fallen recently and they told me I made the right choice blah blah blah.
Around 6:30pm both patients went crazy, sundown to the max lol, one of them had visitors, both patients were trying to get up, so I called the charge nurse to help 3 times since they was nobody else available right away, she told me she was super busy (she was just sitting there) and I needed to figure it out, first red flag, I ended up calling another CNA because at this point one patient is up and trying to walk away and the other is almost all the way out of the bed and their muscles do not work at all…
At this point there’s 2 of us in the room, however with all the commotion 2 other CNA’s come in on their own accord.
The charge nurse barges in and started yelling at me while there is VISITORS in the room, she said “You cannot have this many people here while there is visitors, this is super unprofessional and you are putting on a show, let the visitor deal with the person they are visiting and focus on the other patient, this is ridiculous and you can never have this many people here unless absolutely necessary, blah blah blah”
Not even 2 seconds later, she takes over and calls 2 nurses to come help because ONE patient (one of the 2 that was getting up) is giving her trouble… She did exactly what I did, except she called more people, after she has just yelled at me in front of visitors for the same reason…
I am debating speaking to her or just going straight to the boss because this charge nurse is known for treating everybody like shit under her shoe ☹️