I called in tonight. I didn't want to, but I just simply did not feel like I could handle it tonight. I was worn out and had not been able to nap, plus I've got crap going on here at the house that is really weighing on me. It's the second time I've called in in almost eight months of working there. Both times I have called in for mental health reasons, not because I was physically sick.
The nursing supervisor just kinda laughed at me. She asked me "Well what's wrong with you?" (I HATE that), and I didn't want to say "Well I haven't slept and I feel like I'm on the verge of a nervous breakdown here" so I just simply said that I didn't feel good. She laughed and then said "Okay, well I'll tell (my manager) then." Ugh. That made me feel like I was probably going to be in trouble.
We have a PCT on our floor who has regular severe anxiety attacks while she is at work. She often walks off the elevator at the beginning of the shift, practically already in the midst of an anxiety attack. Often we wish that on nights when she feels like she just can't handle it, she would just call in. We often spend our shifts taking care of her AND the patients.
I feel like, if you seriously don't feel like you can handle work mentally that day, you should call in, just as if you were physically sick. But I know a lot of people, supervisors don't feel that way. And I'm not going to tell the supervisor that I'm having an anxiety attack and I haven't slept any and I just can't handle it tonight.
When ever I have a mental breakdown day and I need to day to myself, I always get questioned by the staffing office manager. She makes me feel like I am commiting a terrible crime by calling off. I have learned to just ignore it. My mental sanity and physical health are more important than being subjected to a modern-day spanish inquosition. If they are so keen on knowing why I need to call off I tell them that I am not feeling well. I get vauge with them and throw there power-play back in there faces. Yes, its childish but then again so in 1000 questions as to why I "need a day off for mental issues".
Sometimes I just have enough of there constant questioning of my dignity, well-beiing, and professionalism that I respond that I have Ebola or I am on life support
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When ever I have a mental breakdown day and I need to day to myself, I always get questioned by the staffing office manager. She makes me feel like I am commiting a terrible crime by calling off. I have learned to just ignore it. My mental sanity and physical health are more important than being subjected to a modern-day spanish inquosition. If they are so keen on knowing why I need to call off I tell them that I am not feeling well. I get vauge with them and throw there power-play back in there faces. Yes, its childish but then again so in 1000 questions as to why I "need a day off for mental issues".
Sometimes I just have enough of there constant questioning of my dignity, well-beiing, and professionalism that I respond that I have Ebola or I am on life support