Anyone have a nursing supervisor require you to work while sick? - Page 4

I've watched as supervisors have acted like it was THE unpardonable sin and actually tell callers "no", as if though the call off was phrased as a request. If I'm in pain, feverish, etc., I am quite distracible and likely to make an error. It is the same as working impaired. I've done my share of working sick. My conclusion is that I would rather take my chances with the write ups for being sick than the write ups for errors.

I think that it seems, for the most part, nurses are expected to drag in and cover their shifts, regardless. I am "medically retired" now, but while working, if you called out sick on a weekend,you had to make up that shift on another weekend. There were so many times that staff would come in sick, and whatever they had would go through the dept lie wildfire....When I read all the advice about staying home with possible swine flu, i figure that theyre are going to be nursing offices in tailspins. I was once given a "written verbal warning" for excessive use of sick time-when I challenged the notice, I was told that while I'd had good reasons to call out, they were still excessive for a part-timer-like people can plan for illness...

I think hospitals need to be held accountable by a higher authority for creating a threatening environment in which nurses who are ill or injured feel they have no choice but to come to work.

I lost my position because I called off work even though I had a doctor's note that said I could not be there. I was told that the note was not an acceptable excuse for being absent from work. They did tell me I could get a FMLA leave to save my job. I was only out for three days, so a FMLA seemed a bit excessive.

I always go to work sick now!

Meant to write INDEED, in m previous post,,,talk about a "slip of the fingers"