there is a kitchen and a room used to stack chairs I use to write my haikus in and to read and everything I described.

“I have other tasks I need to do now as part of my job”

I already do this when I actually have other things to do, but sometimes they see me sitting and reading and they start looking for things for me to do that ain’t my job.

“I don’t have the authority to do what you’re asking and you have more authority in asking the admins to do it than I do”

I can see this working with the medical side of nursing like setting lines up, administering medicines, explaining basic anatomy to patients, explaining what happens afterwards, things I’ve done in emergencies (not my job but will do it anyway because it’s an emergency).

Does this also work with the grunt, demanding physical work nobody wants to do? Several times the ER nurses want me to clean rooms or to go to a ward 900 yards away to find an empty bed (not my job and don’t want to do it). It’s not that’s difficult to do, it’s simply very tiring because I already walk 9 miles per day and having to walk more makes my legs ache, some beds are old and heavy, a growing number of patients are heavier as well, it’s not simply transporting patients, but mobilizing them to their new bed or placing them on the CT or MRT table, some of them can’t walk on their own, others fight you, others are scared and you have to talk to them like they were 5 year olds…

What Im not doing, like pseudonym here suggest, is doing 2 jobs being paid just for 1, being a full fledged RN when I have nothing to do and transporting patients when somebody needs to be transported. How entitled I am, aren’t I?

yours is a great answer btw.