I work in a small, privately owned urgent care. There are two nursing staff (use term loosely because I'm fhe only nurse left and the rest are MAs) and one doctor working each day. Our nurse manager was fired a few months ago and being the only nurse left, i was handed the position as interim. Basically the extra responsibilities would be to order supplies, make the schedule etc in addition to working my own 3-12hour shifts per week.
a situation came up where one of the MAs asked someone to cover her and that person said yes, only to take it back after a few days. I got into an argument with the first MA because i told her it is her responsibility to find someone to cover her shift since the other one cannot, otherwise she needs to come in. She cannot find anyone else. For her, since i am "manager" i should be responsible. Obviously, we do not have a traditional manager-employee setting because I work as staff as well. The month before i make the schedule, i let them put in their requested days off with the agreement that once it is scheduled, it is their responsibility to work their shifts.
Am i in the wrong here? The reason i cannot work is i am scheduled at my other job already (which i've had for 2 years before this happened). She cannot work because she has a test coming up (going to school for nursing).and she is not prepared.
oh, and I'm working 9 days in that two weeks already to cover her other shifts.
