To call out sick I need to call 3 different people

[sweet sunshine]

In order to call out sick at my job you need to call the staffing office, floor, and the director all before 4am for day shift. so ridiculous! anyone else have to do this?

[bugya90, ASN, BSN, LVN, RN]

Our policy is you must contact your direct supervisor 2 hours prior to start of shift. I am in a clinic currently. I transfer to the hospital in a few weeks and their policy is 2 hours before shift you must call the manager on call (could be the charge nurse or the nursing director just depending on how the schedule is set up).

[Cat365]

Yes. That's ridiculous. I pointed out at a previous job (non nursing) that I shouldn't have to make 5 phone calls to call in sick. There you had to contact HR, unfortunately I came in before HR, and if I didn't notify someone else before opening my appointments would be sitting there with no one to help them. So they told me to call HR and my immediate manager. Unfortunately the next time I was sick was his day off. So I called HR who wasn't in and my manager who was at home. He told me to call the appointments desk. Their phone doesn't ring in before hours, so I called their managers line, same deal. Finally I called a coworkers personal phone and had them walk up and talk to the appointments desk. I was told the next day that I didn't contact them properly or in time. Well no Id spent 45 minutes from first call to last call in between puking. Grrrrrr. I told the owner that in the future I was contacting one number. I didn't care who, but I would not make a second call.

In my current job we just call the charge nurse.

[AceOfHearts<3]

That's ridiculous. With both of my jobs I've only had to call one person- the charge nurse at one place and the staffing office at the other.

[cleback]

Yeah, sounds pretty overkill.

We usually just call two-- the charge nurse and staffing office/nurse sup (depends on shift).

[iluvivt, BSN, RN]

Same for me....3 calls.One to staffing office...one to where you work and one to direct supervisor.Many supervisors allow us to text or leave a message on voice mail. What they are accomplishing is that you do the work.If you just notify one place such as central staffing,the person answering the phone has to do all that! All these entities must know you are unable to work.

[JBudd, MSN]

charge and the staffing office, but if I sound really bad (which is usually the only reason I call in, no voice whatsoever), the charge will call staffing for me.