"I Don't Care if You are Sick...Come to Work Anyway!"

Having past experience working in long term care, it is often the policy to find your OWN replacement if (God forbid!) you called in sick.
Where I work now, (hospital), there is a special number I call (nurse staffing office) and let them know that I will not be working tonite due to illness/family emergency/ etc. Luckily the hospital has an in-house float pool group of nurses that can be called upon to fill in. This is not the case in LTC...;(

i remember when i was still in school, i once had an instructor with that policy. she told us not to call her to call in sick for that day of clinicals. instead, we had to show up prepared to work... and if she felt that we were too sick to work, THEN she would let us drive back home and rest. lol....

The Administrative Simplification standards adopted by Health and Human Services (HHS) under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) apply to any entity that is

• a health care provider that conducts certain transactions in electronic form (called here a "covered health care provider").
• a health care clearinghouse.
• a health plan.

An entity that is one or more of these types of entities is referred to as a "covered entity" in the Administrative Simplification regulations.