Reasonable accommodation request
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Nightshift is severely affecting my mental health. Before this job at a new hospital, I worked days and I had no issues. I was ranked highly valued and received exemplary evaluations at the hospital I worked at for years. I frequently oriented new nurses, worked as charge, was offered positions on other units by managers I had picked up for. I only switched back to nights since it was a requirement as part of my transition into a more acute setting, ICU. The need to be on days has been an ongoing discussion with my manager since my initial interview. I made it clear it was a mental health issue then. I was told 6-9 months minimum and it's been 8 months. After my meeting with my manger this morning, it's been made clear that my reasonable accommodation request to work days is not going to happen. There's a waiting list and she won't have a position available for months at a minimum. My mental health decline is well documented and has been discussed multiple times with my manager since my first few weeks on nights after orientation which needed in December. I asked then for further orientation to address the issues and was told it wasn't possible due to staffing. She finally agreed to put me back into orientation last month to try and fix some of the issues but my psychiatrist said it won't be possible to fix any of the issues until my circadian rhythm is no longer disrupted. My manager has been increasingly critical of me since I have made it clear 3 weeks ago that I'll have to quit if I can't switch to days. In the last few weeks since I started working with HR, there's been a clear decline. Going through this process has added so much pressure and stress. I have so much anxiety at this point that I'm making disassociating which scares the crap out of me and I am no longer comfortable continuing my position for my own safety and the safety of my patients. When I'm off work, I can't function normally. I need advice on how to get out of this contract without paying thousands of dollars to reimburse my sign on bonus and without having to do a leave of absence or go on short term disability. The applicable exclusion to me paying back my sign on bonus is disability. There's a dayshift position waiting for me with my old manager. I could start tomorrow if I wanted to but I can't do that if I do a leave of absence or short term disability bc that prohibits me from working dayshift elsewhere. Please help me, I'm at the end of my rope.