Personal Narrative: My Experience As A Charge Nurse

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In my previous job, I used to have a charge nurse, who was a good person in the beginning. Later, she has become selfish and started to demonstrate favoritism. I was a new hire there and had many bad experiences with her. Whenever there was a difficult patient in the unit, like a heavy patient, too needy or complaining, she used to assign that patient to me. Usually, the practice in our unit was to rotate the assignment, so that the same staff need not get stuck with such patient assignments. Whenever this charge nurse was on, her favorite nurses, who were the seniors would call her and make arrangements so that they will not get such patients. In return, this charge nurse would receive ‘treats’ from those nurses. There was a patient in our