No Coverage for Sick Days

I know this isn't helpful at all, but it's not really your problem. You are legally allowed to be sick. You must report to someone up the food chain (district nurse?). Coverage is their problem as long as you are sure they realize it's needed.

Remember you are a hazard to staff and students when you come in sick. In my state, insulin can be delegated and we have at least two people trained in every building to cover this exact issue. Good luck with a resolution!

I know this isn't helpful at all, but it's not really your problem. You are legally allowed to be sick. You must report to someone up the food chain (district nurse?). Coverage is their problem as long as you are sure they realize it's needed.

Remember you are a hazard to staff and students when you come in sick. In my state, insulin can be delegated and we have at least two people trained in every building to cover this exact issue. Good luck with a resolution!

Thank you! I have always been one of those people that just torments myself over having to call-in or leave work due to illness, probably because of the many times while working in food service that I received a guilt trip over it (I think they assume someone young only calls in sick when they're hungover).

The trouble now is that I am not healing because I am not getting the rest I so desperately need. I am up all night coughing, and mornings are absolutely miserable. By the time my boss calls around lunch to ask how I am doing I have pounded enough coffee to feel somewhat alert, and the morning "ickies" have worn off a bit, so I feel deceptively better and overly optimistic. I know that today, like yesterday, dinner time will roll around, and I will spend the next 12 hours coughing until I gag. Only today I have the added bonus of menstrual cramps! Joy!

Also, Kaiser advice was a "wait and see" attitude, because I am improving (ever so slowly).

And what would they do if you wrapped your car around a tree?.....please don't!! But they would make a plan.....it took me a LONG time to really believe that.

Take care of yourself!

they have subs for me and have already gone as far as going to an outside agency (and paying through the nose) and if push comes to shove and i had to leave emergently my principal and I discussed that I would just shut and lock my door and a true 9-1-1 emergency would be handled just that way.

SAme issue here. meds must be given by an RN in my state. The only exceptions are epipens and glucagon that can be given by anyone trained. Per state law students can be self directed to take their own meds under the supervision of a staff member if the parent, nurse, and prescribing doctor feel thay are self directed. However in the school I work in most of the kids have special needs, get alot of meds, and are not at all self directed. So if I am out sick they must find subs. This is really hard sometimes and we have also had to hire agency nurses. Needless to say I am rarely out. We also run into issues with field trips, they have to find another sub to either go on the trip or stay back and take care of the school while I go on the trip. Parents may go on the trips to administer meds but if they can't we may not excluse the students from thre trips. Unfortunately I still haven't learned how to be in 2 (or more) places at the same time!