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Your employer hired you not your kids (or husband, truck, animals). You have a duty to those who pay you. Get someone to take care of your other business or take vacation time. I have no empathy for those who carelessly dump on their colleagues for other than true emergencies. Modern RN's have very little loyalty to their fellow nurses or to their institution. Always a sore subject for someone who has been nursing for about 36 years and has called in for real reasoins of personal illness about 2-3 times. JCGCRNA Has anyone else called in sick when their children were sick? I work night shift on a very busy cardiac step down unit. My 7 year old had a fever of 102.6 when I went to work. My husband was given a medication schedule for the Tylenol and motrin. When I returned from work in the morning, my husband told me the children had a 2 hour delay from school due to snow:rolleyes: Despite the fact he an important meeting, he rearranged his schedule so I could take a shower and go to bed with my sick son and try to get some sleep. Half way through my shower he informed me the 2 hour delay was now a cancelled school day. I told my hubby to just go to work. The few hours he had arranged for me to sleep was not going to happen with 2 very excited kids who wanted to play in the snow. I now have three children staying home from school. I was so worried about not being able to get the sleep I needed before the next shift I called in sick. I have NEVER called in sick unless I was truely sick. I have been feeling sick to my stomach ever since. Please tell me some of you have used your sick days for family sick days and that management didn't punish you for it. I have to go into work tonight and know I don't look sick...the guilt is just killing me.... P.S. I called in 8 hours before my shift started. I tried to give as much notice as possible..I do hope they found a replacement:uhoh3:

I've seen the opposite, ie people deferring to the men in many more situations than the descrimination noted in the protracted article. Been a nurse for 36 years in med cens and rural places. I think we make mountains out of mole hills when we publish such drivel. Craig

Nurse Anesthesia, solo. When I retire (soon I hope), I'd love to do some hands on nursing on the acute care ward in our 15 bed rural hospital. I have been giving anesthesia for 28 years and miss the nursing I was trained to do in the 60's. I'd even do a little geriatrics as well. I Love Nursing! Craig in Montana

I constantly have to remind patients that I am a nurse anesthetist, not an anesthesiologist. I am very proud to be a nurse, trained long and hard to be one and have fed my family well being one. Guys that don't introduce them selves as nurses lose my respect immediately. Male nurse, is another thing. It offends me to be refered to by my gender. I politely respond "nurse" not "male nurse". Thanks, Craig in Montana where it is currently snowing at my house.

By the time you would have graduated with your BsN, finished 2 years of post graduate clinical in either ER, OR, ICU...you'd be 46. With six kids, and 46: anesthesia would be a very difficult 2-3 years. I'd not suggest it. Family comes first and when you add 12 hour days in the anesthesia department plus study time = a absentee parent. I know of what I speak. Also, I have not seen too many folks complete anesthesia programs after age 40-45. Good luck with whatever you select. Craig

In our one OR very small rural hospital the OR nurse witnesses the waste of all my narcotics. We then go to the pixys and account for it there.

Anesthesia nursing for the last 26 years. Prior to that ICU-CCU. Guys, I wake up every mirning looking forward going to work. Most people can't make that claim and really mean it. Craig