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 nurses, doctors
and auxiliaries.Specialist staff (for example,consultants, physiotherapists) are allocated
to several wards or the clinic. An example of a wellmedows hospital report listing the
details of the staff allocated to ward 11 is shown in Figure B.2.