Been a RN for 28 years on a medical surgical floor--small hospital--town--17,000. The powers that be have decided to mix up how we run the floor with our assignments--for years we had one "charge nurse"--for 34 patients--hard --but you knew that was "your job a couple times a month". Then we switched to 2 charge nurses to make it easier--split the floor in half. Now they have decided to break up the floor in 5 different RNs --but you have to do all the meds(had a med nurse before)--all the charting(took away charting from our LPNS) and of course all the orders and calling the doctors. Our hospital is trying to get magnet status --so they are getting rid of our LPNS --which has everyone upset and crying. My question to handle is- with one charge nurse everyone respected you to leave you alone if you were busy thinking or waiting for a call back from doctors--or charting--or looking up labs and comparing them whether you should call that difficult doctor or not. Now everyone is so angry with each other "look at her--I'm busy and she is just sitting there typing". "she should get up and answer more lights" --you feel like your constantly torn apart--noone is happy--everyone is judging everyone-If I didn't have these years here--and live 1 hour away from the next hospital, I would leave in a second. what does anyone think would improve the situation--head nurse is having meetings every month--but nothing gets resolved. Karen.