So I've been a nurse for 4 years now. I live in the south where snow is not common. As of today every school system in the area is closed due to the snow. I have no kids, but this tells you how bad it is in the area. I live in the country and it's a 35 minute interstate drive to the hospital where I work. I am not sure if I should attempt to get to work or simply call out. I feel like I should at least try, but I've never had this problem before because I haven't been scheduled to work during a snow event before. I have very little experience driving in snow and the roads aren't plowed out here in the country.
So what would you do in this situation? Or what have you done in the past?
I am posting this because I really want opinions of nurses, not just my family/friends who advise me to stay home.
Drive slow or if you are not able to drive in the snow ask the employer to send you a taxi or car pool with someone. some just stay at work if they are scheduled to work the next day, and saves you the hussle of driving in the snow. good luck.
aaannddd its snowing again in CT. Enough already. Yet another snowy night of driving into work. This morning I was driving home in it. SPRING with NO snow..where are you????!!!
Patients need to be taken care of by someone who has not been terrorized out on icy roads. It would be strange if someone could prove that health workers never die or get maimed during icy weather.
Patients need to be taken care of by someone who has not been terrorized out on icy roads. It would be strange if someone could prove that health workers never die or get maimed during icy weather.
Health care workers, like other humans, get killed and maimed during icy weather. They also get killed or maimed driving on New Year's Eve, after the bachelorette party and on the way home from church. If you are so terrorized by icy roads that you cannot leave your home (except of course to celebrate the new year, your best friend's wedding or the Sunday service), please do not take a job where you're expected to be at work despite the weather.
Or do you propose that the ER nurses all stay home and let those 30 injured people bleed out in the waiting room?
Health care workers, like other humans, get killed and maimed during icy weather. They also get killed or maimed driving on New Year's Eve, after the bachelorette party and on the way home from church. If you are so terrorized by icy roads that you cannot leave your home (except of course to celebrate the new year, your best friend's wedding or the Sunday service), please do not take a job where you're expected to be at work despite the weather.
Or do you propose that the ER nurses all stay home and let those 30 injured people bleed out in the waiting room?
Not to mention that sometimes accidents occur for no reason at all other than stupid people in perfectally fine conditions. Maybe nurses should never drive? Sometimes planes, trains, and buses crash. Maybe we shouldn't take public transport? Maybe we should all confine ourselves to bubbles all the time.
Health care workers, like other humans, get killed and maimed during icy weather. They also get killed or maimed driving on New Year's Eve, after the bachelorette party and on the way home from church. If you are so terrorized by icy roads that you cannot leave your home (except of course to celebrate the new year, your best friend's wedding or the Sunday service), please do not take a job where you're expected to be at work despite the weather.
Or do you propose that the ER nurses all stay home and let those 30 injured people bleed out in the waiting room?
First of all I don't go driving on New Years Eve unless I am coming home from work. I work on New Years Eve when I am scheduled even if it does snow. If I am off on the holiday, I will have one drink and drive my couch if you get the drift. The last wedding I went to was held at the hotel I was staying. Not to mention I had a free brunch. The next wedding I go to will be near a hotel I stay at. Another free breakfast.
Or do you propose that the ER nurses all stay home and let those 30 injured people bleed out in the waiting room?
No, I do not think they should stay home when the roads are dangerous. I'll say this one more time, they need to offer them showers and a dignified sleeping space when it's too dangerous to drive. I have sometimes refused to leave my workplace when I think I might be in danger. I do not think the blatant indifference they show during these times is acceptable or that health workers should be treated like machines. If I end up in the E.R. during a snow storm I do not want to be taken care of by nurses who are treated like they're disposable.
I can also tell you that I never go out to have fun when the roads are icy and sometimes do not even go out on foot.
About that link I posted, well, how are you going to take care of patients if you're stuck on the road? I'm sure health workers just don't get into these pile-ups.
I think Ruby Vee should be a little more irritated by nurses calling in sick on a bright sunny warm day, weekend and/or holiday that they are scheduled to work and making a coworker work on her or his day off because they didn't, feel like working.
Specializes in CCU, SICU, CVSICU, Precepting & Teaching.
I think Ruby Vee should be a little more irritated by nurses calling in sick on a bright sunny warm day, weekend and/or holiday that they are scheduled to work and making a coworker work on her or his day off because they didn't, feel like working.
I would be, except they always post those pictures on FB or Instagram, and then EVERYONE (including the manager) knows what they were doing. And karma -- or maybe it's the manager -- always seems to bite them in the butt.
I would be, except they always post those pictures on FB or Instagram, and then EVERYONE (including the manager) knows what they were doing. And karma -- or maybe it's the manager -- always seems to bite them in the butt.
Looks like they screwed themselves didn't they LOL
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Drive slow or if you are not able to drive in the snow ask the employer to send you a taxi or car pool with someone. some just stay at work if they are scheduled to work the next day, and saves you the hussle of driving in the snow. good luck.