Tucson Nurses/ students, how did /do you find sick child care??

[AniraP]

Hello all,

I will be starting my ADN in pima CC in Spring 2011. I have a son who is not in school yet. I'm planning on putting him in a day care center f/t when I start school. My husband will be mostly out of town and I have no family in Tucson either. I have this problem, what can I do when my son gets sick?? We all know kids get sick easily in a day care center setting. How can I find sick child care for my son if the day care center doesn't accept sick children. I can't stay home with him specially on clinical days and at the rate they get sick I can't miss that many classes either.

So, does anyone know of a place that accept sick kids/ or a normal day care center with a sick kid section? Or an individual care giver who is willing to look after sick kids? How can I find someone? Usually how much they charge for a sick child? I tried Craigslist , but the response is not good.

I know there are some sites on the internet / care agencies that provide sick child care but they need 24 hour notice. How do I know when is my kid going to get sick? And the rate is too high too. My husband is the only one working and we are on a budget.

I need emegency back up child care. How did you ,nursing students / nurses find sick child care in Tucson?

Please help, PM me if you know of a place or a person. Sorry this is long.

Thank you in advance.

[Kabin]

Gonna be tough to find. There's huge needs in this area but no one wants to pay much for it. It's pretty much one on one care.

Some employers offer it as a benefit but the location/sites are few and far between. As imagined, the cheapest would be established daycare but they don't want an outbreak - bad for their busness.

We have the same situation, no family in town and we burn PTO hrs on those days. We had a virtual grandma than took care of our oldest but now she doesn't want to risk getting sick.

[desertdog]

Hey, I don't know if you have had any luck in finding sick care. Hopefully you've already found a great on-call sitter. If not, I have been looking into childcare/sick care too. I came across a site called sittercity.com that seems pretty good. It costs about $60 for a six month membership. Then you can view contact info, background (some have background checks which is great!) You can view sitters/nannies without paying (just can't see the contact info.) I'm probably going to join next week and see how it works out.