On 01/26/11 Andrea was on the clinical unit and was responsible for her patients as well as Stephanie Garnett\'s patients while Stephanie was at lunch.  I was informed by Stephanie that while Andrea was suppose to be watching her patients, she left the floor and went to lunch herself.  I addressed this with Andrea.  She admitted she did leave the floor to go look for Stephanie because she was 10 minutes late in returning from lunch and she was hungry. Andrea admitted to me that she never reported off to anyone to look after Stephanie\'s patients and that her primary nurse told her to go to lunch.  Upon questioning the primary nurse, she stated Andrea told her she was going to lunch and also asked her if she could wash her patient for her.  I did speak to Andrea about patient abandonment and how she put the patient\'s safety at risk.In addition, I told her how her actions were unprofessional.  She did become very emotional and discussed a personal problem she was going through.  I informed her that although I was sympathetic to her situation, she needed to leave her personal problems at home when she comes to clinical.  As of this moment, I have not discussed with her the fact that she was never told to go to lunch by her primary (and in fact lied to me) and that she asked her primary to bathe her patient at 11:30.