A Charge Nurse is responsible for setting up a weekly staff rota,and must ensure that the ward/clinic has the correct number and type of staff on duty at any time during the day or night. In a given week, each member of staff is assigned to work an early, late, or night shift.
As well as the Charge Nurse, each ward is allocated senior and junior nurse, doctors and auxiliaries. Specialist staff (for example, consultants, physiotherapists) are allocated to several ward or the clinic. An example of a Welleamdows Hospital report listing the details of the staff allocated to ward 11 is shown in Figure B.2.