In acute care, a charge nurse is assigned to oversee a unit, and
a nursing supervisor oversees the nursing role across a facility.
All work together to control the flow of patients in and out of the
unit and facility, make staffing assignments, and assist with
problems and crises.
Consider this situation: A nurse is dealing with a crisis for
one patient and misses a second patient crisis--a young woman who
died from a postoperative hemorrhage. In this tragic situation,...