I'm a nurse in the private sector. I've been training another nurse for the past month and a half, and she's really not meant for my fast pace department. Every day, I speak to my head nurse about how incompetent she is, how she's only tasks oriented and doesn't think/reflect/reason, how she only seeks positive feedbacks, how could she be a nurse for over 15 years?!!!! My whole team has seen her work and had tried to help her, but all she does is talk back, and give excuses that are worse than the actual mistake! So after a month of struggle, the team has slowly withdrawn from helping her since she's been very defensive every time. And she feels it! She did speak to my head nurse and I about it.
Honestly, we've worked with a very difficult orderly who has anger management issues and we managed to get along with him and made him beat his record of staying at the same workplace longer than 1 year. We are a very patient and welcoming team. She just managed to drain that out of us within a month and a half!
After running out of ways to deal with her and to approach her training, I've spoken to my HR and my head nurse about my intention of not keeping her anymore. But because of everyone's vacations and a collegue's upcoming paternity leave, we would end up too short and needing to cancel a procedure room (-$$$). So now, my head nurse and HR want us (the team) to lie to her, to make her feel as good as possible just to cover the lack of staffing for the next 2 months! And then kick her out!
As much as she really gets into our nerves and how she managed to piss off every single one of us, we still don't wish to lie and manipulate someone just to cover our vacations! It's morally wrong! It's unfair for her! It's unfair for us having to work extra to cover her ass and to suck it up! And honestly, none of us could potentially be faking it for the next 2 months without bursting when we couldn't even bare it the last month and a half!
Since I'm the team leader, I'm supposed to sell this plan to the team. And I did. They all understood the lack of other options and somewhat accepted the plan. But the next day, we all agreed that it wouldn't be right. She's been off this week due to COVID, but she will be back next week…
How should I approach the situation? What arguments can I use to convince my head nurse that we can't do it? How do I toss back the ball to my head nurse without getting myself into trouble?