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Should Family work in the same facility?
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Posted over 4 years ago Should family work in the same facility? I mean it's unfair to the hard working nurses around. I worked in a nursing home facility where the DON's daughter worked also. Everyone in the facility knows that the daughter gets treated a lot more lenient than any other nurse. She gets away with a lot more. She gets to leave when she wants and decide which station she's at for the day. The other nurses have to be at whatever station is chosen for them. How fair is that? Also, there is a friend that worked with me that hurt her back at the facility and filed the necessary papers for workman's comp and someone witnessed her filling it out. Guess what happened to the papers? Uh, we never received them according to the DON. She received nothing!! I felt so bad for her. She is now suffering with her back and trying to work. This girl came in a lot when other nurses called out. She has been out some with her back but had doctors' notes but anytime that she is for some reason not able to work, she is treated unfairly by the DON saying, " I don't have anyone to cover for you. You know you have missed so much with your back?" Hello? it was from working here that hurt her back in the begin with. Her daughter is able to miss whenever she wants. Again, is this fair????? NO. Angel |
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| Posted over 4 years ago i dont think a member of management should have their familly members working under them. now my mother and i worked in the same facility. we actually worked together on a rehab unit! and it worked out amazing. we knew each others strengths and weaknessess we picked up right where the other one left off....... we worked so well on admissions.... it was awesome!!!!! but we didnt have the problem of one was higher up than the other. we were both lpn's workin on the same floor. plus mom is not iv certified and i am, so it worked out great for her bc i got all her iv's covered and she didnt have to run and ask someone to do it! |
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| Posted over 4 years ago When I worked at the hospital, there were so many familly members working there that if all of them were out the same day, the place would have been on "skeleton" staff. Unreal and not right. The policy was that no family member could be in a supervisory position over another, but it didn't work that way in the real world. There was one group that was husband and wife in the ER, with her sister in ER registration and her mom on the med floor. Another husband/wife team worked the ER together at night. And so on and so on.....I'm sure that kept qualified people from getting a job there. A Proud Redneck Lovin' the Country Life |
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| Posted over 4 years ago I have seen it abused and used correctly. My former boss had her nephew's wife working with us- she was on the books as full time but worked whatever hours she wanted. Guess who no longer has a job because of this. My former boss. She also gave special benefits to her friends and they were all the people in power. They were all fired. I also worked with a husband and wife each worked a different shift and then they started going through a divorce and the floor was thrown into conflict- each shifted hated the other spouse. They really had everyone at each other's throats. They were both fired also. I have also worked with many other relatives- husband/wife, mother/daughter, mother in law/daughter in law that have worked out. As a matter of fact the mother in law/ daughter in law even have gone through the fact that the daughter in law divorced the husband and is now remarried. They have both conducted themselves very professionally. They still talk to each other- as a matter of fact the daughter in law fills in for her former mother in law when she goes on vacation. In my dept right now my cousin's wife works with me and there are two sisters that work there and never has there been a problem. I do think that family should not be allowed to be over family members. I do think though that regardless of family- the same think happens with friends. It is hard to get away from this. |
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| Posted over 4 years ago I think family should be allowed to work together. If after 3 months, there are more than 25 complaints from different people that this family member is being treated more lenient or whatever, they will have to be let go! It will NEVER happen like that though. A good man loves other. A better man loves God. A great man loves God and lives well among others! I miss you daddy!
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| Posted over 4 years ago Anything can be done in fairness or it can be abused. When it's abused and nothing is done to correct it, it makes for a bad environment for everyone. I applaude the mother in law and her ex-daughter in law. That's a real show of maturity and professionalism...too bad it's not happening everywhere. A Proud Redneck Lovin' the Country Life |
