I had the worst day at work yesterday. I mean it was enough to make me consider quitting nursing immediately and return to my business roots.
Anyways, by the time I left yesterday night, I knew that I needed decompression time so I 'called in' for today's morning shift to the supervisor. She took me off the schedule and told me to go home and take it easy.
Well this morning, the ADON calls and tells me that I have to come into work and cant call in for today. I let her leave the message in my voicemail and did not bother to call her back seeing as I had no plans to go into work today and not in a mood to argue with her.
I am due back to work in the morning and am dreading it. I am sure I will written up, maybe even put on suspension since I called in on a 'pick up' shift. (It was an extra shift for me that I signed up for). I just know I NEEDED not to be at work today and feel no guilt about it, am just trying to prepare for the outcome.
Should I sign the write up even though I did call in with plenty of time?
As far as I'm concerned, I've more than earned my sick time and if I need a mental health day I take it. FYI I barely call in....but I do say I'm sick if I need a mental health day.
Specializes in Neuro/NSGY, critical care, med/stroke/tele.
I'm interested to hear what happened!
(Could there be some other reason she would have called you in for..? A training/meeting/something else that wasn't actually a part of doing the shift?)
As far as I'm concerned, I've more than earned my sick time and if I need a mental health day I take it. FYI I barely call in....but I do say I'm sick if I need a mental health day.
This makes me remember a non-nursing job I had years ago. Stellar employee, never took off, always met crazy deadlines (not happy to work like this tho). I had just finished a big hot deadline that afternoon, and was exhausted from so many 15 hour days (that is time my body was in the office, and not counting work brought home), actually was nauseous/headachy too. I knew I needed a MH day, and I had not pulled the trigger on taking a new project yet, so I decided to call in the next day. I had made the fatal error of mentioning that I was needing a "break" in the elevator to a production manager. Well, the day after my MH day, I was called into the big conference room and drilled for reasons why I was not in that single day I took off in 3 years! Every accusation was suggested from blowing off my high responsibilites to are you looking for a new job.
Oh, and when I asked why the questions, they said BECAUSE YOU NEVER TAKE TIME OFF!
I was so insulted, I actually quit the next day. Was lucky to call a friend and start to freelance.
Either the person calling wasn't aware that this was an extra shift or there was some other miscommunication. I would not be eager to sign a write-up over this either.
Thanks everyone for your concern. The person that called me, called me specifically coz I picked up the extra shift then called it off.
Well, it turned out that today was an extra busy friday, and monday is a holiday, so I have a 'meeting' set up for tuesday. We shall see what happens. As the day went by, I decided I am not so concerned about what they decide. I cant spend all weekend stressing about it.
DizzyLizzyNurse
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As far as I'm concerned, I've more than earned my sick time and if I need a mental health day I take it. FYI I barely call in....but I do say I'm sick if I need a mental health day.