Does anyone else feel guilty when your sick?

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I got up this morning, went into work. Got there and started throwing :oup right after I clocked in. Talked to my manager,( I work on a med-surg unit in hospital) and she wasn't upset told me to go home.

Why do I feel guilty for being sick? I even feel guilty for sleeping most of the day! I feel like I should have pushed myself and stayed.

Does anyone else feel like this???

Specializes in Med-Surg, ED.

Not guilty. Just scared. As in having only 5 sick days a year, and obsessing on the what-if's...what if I use them all now and get in trouble later without them? What if they dont believe me that I am sick?

The big one: (Because it happens where I work) What if I get sick a lot and then don't get my yearly raise because of too many absences...

So I just go in. Pepto Bismal is my new best friend.

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Specializes in Med-Surg/Peds/O.R./Legal/cardiology.

I used to--NOT ANYMORE!! Once I realized that they don't give a rat's *** how sick you are, I GOT OVER IT...

ebear

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Specializes in Case mgmt., rehab, (CRRN), LTC & psych.
Does anyone else feel like this???
I don't feel guilty for becoming sick.

Look at it in this manner...the hospital administrator is not going to feel any morsel of guilt when he/she becomes sick, so why should you? We're all human, and we are all afflicted with sickness at some point in our lives. Sickness should not evoke feelings of guilt, ever.

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Specializes in Med Surg, Hospice.
Better feeling guilty for calling in sick than feeling guilty for staying at work and infecting patients/other staff, etc. Hope you feel better soon :).

But yeah, I feel guilty, too.

:yeahthat:

And how come everyone else can go home sick but I'm always the one that gets stuck and has to stay even though I'm practically passing out on the floor. :angryfire

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Specializes in Dialysis, Home Care, Hospice.

Nope. If I'm sick, I'm sick. They can live without me.

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Specializes in Med-Surg/Peds/O.R./Legal/cardiology.

Kylee,

Probably because you'll stay! Stop doing that!

ebear

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Specializes in Med Surg, Hospice.
Kylee,

Probably because you'll stay! Stop doing that!

ebear

Still in my 6 months probation period.. and I can't afford to lose this job... at least not till I get hired by Hospice.... :o

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Specializes in Medicine.

Yes, I always feel super guilty when I call out, and it take a lot of courage for me to do so.

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Specializes in Medical Progressive Care Unit.

No, I do not feel guilty at all. Management relies on this "no brother left behind" mentality. What we need is adequete subtitute systems. can you imagine being a teacher and callin in and another teacher has to watch two classrooms because there are no subs!!!!!!!!!!!

Absolutely pathetic!!!!!!!

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Specializes in Case Management, Home Health, UM.

Nope. My days of Martyrdom ended YEARS ago.

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Specializes in ICU, SDU, OR, RR, Ortho, Hospice RN.

Nope not at all because if I am sick well I am sick. I am blessed to have a great work environment and a wonderful LPN who is my backup. :)

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Specializes in acute, med/surg/ER/geri/CPR instructor.

guilty!!!!of course, i do. do i ever call in. no!! we are short staffed enough and if i called in the only people suffering would be my shift members and my patients. no administration would suffer.

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