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Very upset, I have never called in before and thought I understood the process just from hearing about it at work. Well, I woke up at 2am vomiting and thought I could take a zofran for it and tough it out. By 4am the vomiting had just gotten worse, so I called in. The charge nurse and bed manager both told me that it is considered a No show/ No call because it wasn't 4 hours before my shift. I am mad at myself because I never bothered to learn the policy. I feel worse because in between vomiting I am googling if anybody has ever been fired for a first No Show/ No Call. I even had to find out exactly what it is. What do I do? Has anybody ever been fired?

My goal is to get away from the medical side of nursing for awhile. I am severely worn out when it comes to floor nursing. In some of the hospitals I have worked when we transfer people to behavioral health it is a locked floor and the patient can't have any unresolved medical issues. I have this idea that not putting up with a ton of cormobidities and just the mental health side of people would give me a break. Any behavioral health nurses out there that can give me the down and dirty on behavioral health nursing on the unit?

It really depends on your units staffing. First ortho unit I worked on was staffed beautifully and I was able to work up until delivery with my first child. The second Ortho unit I worked on was so short staffed that I ended up going on leave 3 weeks early because I couldn't safely move the patients by myself. Wasn't safe for the patients or me. My feeling is that if you "rarely have enough staff to properly lift people as it is" it will probably be unsafe for you to work up until the end of your pregnancy.