My heart really goes out to the children and families of all those caregivers who are bullied into driving during this time of dangerous driving weather.
Their patients who sometimes do not really need help during the storm are strangely enough on a list of the ones they're coerced into driving to. These patients are afraid for their caregivers.
If you have to work during this time, may I suggest leaving before the bad weather starts and arranging a double shift so your relief nurses do not have to go out.
May I also suggest that nurse managers think about what they would want if these nurses were their own children or parents and find alternatives that do not involve threatening them into driving on a dangerous road.
Knowing how to drive on ice does not make anyone more safe.
Sure, I'll work a double so you don't have to drive in the snow ... BUT, then you have to work a double so I don't have to work on the 4th of July. Sounds fair to me!
Even reading this, I still can't be sure if it's the wrong word to use. I already knew that several factors had to be present over long periods of time.
Someone who asks you to drive to work in a blinding snow storm on a road of ice when you're a long distance away and you're scared is probably not a sociopath but there is always that small chance that they might be.
The last time someone told me I had to drive to work in a storm, I had been watching their behavior over a long period of time and listened to my co-workers complain that she lied to them.
As for knowing how to drive in snow, my reactions are already ingrained, have kept me out of accidents, and are still not a magical cure to keep anyone from getting hurt.
Alnitak7
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Sounds good to me. I don't mind an even trade.