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10-10-2005, 04:27 PM
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| Junior Member  Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Florida
Posts: 25
|  Not In My Job Description I work as an LPN in a small hospital. When a secretary, monitor tech, sitter for Baker Acts or nursing assistant is needed, we are taken off our assignments to fill the void. I was told if I don't accept the assignment, I am "abandoning" my job. How should I respond? |
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10-10-2005, 09:09 PM
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| Executive Member Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: IN
Posts: 1,398
| Re: Not In My Job Description what is in your job description? I'm a RN and on my unit I have to be able to do everything except CST....including mopping the floors in delivery rooms after 3pm because we don't get housekeeping after 3. Do they want to cut your pay from LPN to do secretary work or do you still have the same hourly pay. Most places I've been say job is xyz and anything else as needed. |
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10-11-2005, 11:49 PM
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| Admin aka Shortbus  Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Edmond
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   | Re: Not In My Job Description I'm in the middle here.
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12-27-2005, 06:22 AM
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| Junior Member Join Date: May 2004
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| Re: Not In My Job Description Very thoroughly check out your job description before you do anything so that you don't get written up for insubordination. And if you are filling in as a monitor tech, you should be checked off on reading EKGs. |
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10-03-2006, 02:11 AM
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| Junior Member Join Date: Sep 2005
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10-03-2006, 04:32 PM
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| Junior Member Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 3
| Re: Not In My Job Description pt care is just that pt care, regardless of whether or not it's as a sitter,lpn,or a pct. I "multitask" my current job all the time, as long as they don't try to change my pay for what i'm doing, it doesn't matter, it still has to get done. |
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11-18-2006, 03:41 AM
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| Junior Member Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Florida
Posts: 25
| Re: Not In My Job Description Maybe my question was vague. Pay is not the issue. Is refusing to do a job that you were not hired to do "abandonment"? Have they the right to threaten you with abandonment to get you to do a job that is not in your job description? |
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11-18-2006, 11:07 AM
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| Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: California
Posts: 246
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include in the job description a willingness to be flexible. As an RN I have mopped floors, done the work of an aid. I've also been a ward clerk. What's the big deal anyway? I'd rather work than be called off. Look at it this way many times when I have come to work to do ward clerk stuff it's because they'd rather have an RN available "Just in case" It means they like you and want to keep you working. I've even worked in the morgue processing bodies to go to the coroner. Kinda creepy in the middle of the night. Just remember that when budget cuts come around you are more likely to be cut if you are seen as having an "attitude problem." I'd say as long as they aren't asking you to do something outside your scope of practice do it. When it comes time to recognize your value to the organization they will remember. Hppy | |
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02-11-2007, 08:26 AM
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| Junior Member Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Kennett, MO
Posts: 16
| Re: Not In My Job Description Here's my opinion, take it for what its worth. A nurse, is a nurse, is a nurse... In saying this, no matter what your job description says, which by the way I'd look into that, every job in the hospital... whether it be housekeeper or data processing for crying out loud... has in some way or fashion... to do with the care of patients. Its the nurses job to take care of the patient to the best of his/her ability. That task maybe doing the unit secretary's job that day... I also work at a small hospital, I work the medical-surgical unit 7p to 7a and after 9pm we don't have a unit secretary anymore.... so if we have to put orders in or other things using the computer system we have to do it ourself. The aides at our hospital are understaffed so we help them as much as we can. Whether we hate what we are doing or not, the nurses primary responsibility is for those patients. It shouldn't matter where you are assigned that particular day, to be quite honest with you I HATE Med-Surg, but I work there because I know they need me and the patients on that unit require the care I can provide as a health care provider whether it be playing housekeeper, unit secretary, monitor tech, CNA, Social Services, Physical Therapy, Ministry..... and the list goes on... as a nurse we learn to be very flexible..... As long as we keep in our scope of practice... a nurse, is a nurse, is a nurse. My two cents.... lol
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