Tag: charge-nurse

At a small hospital, one person often holds both jobs. The overlap is not the problem. The problem is the decisions that fall in the gap between them, which get made late, or twice, or not at all.

Someone has to be in charge on every shift, including nights and weekends. At a 25-bed hospital only a few of your nurses are cleared to do it. That makes charge a scheduling problem, not a hiring one.