I Hate Dialysis Message Board
Dialysis Discussion => Dialysis: Centers => Topic started by: caringpct on January 11, 2011, 06:12:52 AM
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So I have been sick the last few weeks and haven't been able to rest to get well. I called in one day to work when my temp was over 100 and my body hurt to move. I go to work the next day not feeling better. When I get there I'm threatened with getting written up for calling in and leaving the staff shorthanded. My boss told me it is a disservice to our patients when we are shorthanded. The whole time she's talking I have fever and chills while coughing up a lung. My patients even commented they saw I didn't feel well.
I'm sorry but I work shorthanded daily (patients make comnments about that too) Its amazing how some people call in weekly, come in late, leave early and don't get in trouble. I call in maybe 2 times a year when I'm actually sick so I dont get others sick.
So which is the disservice, working shorthanded or working while sick around patients with a compromised immune system?
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The boss is not worried about the patients. I have always had a way to get the boss to send me home....puke on his shoes....that always seems to work, and when I have an ass for a boss, I get some pleasure along with the discomfort. If I really don't feel well, I am big enough to stand on someones chest and explain to them that I am sick and really don't need them to tell me how poor my work is at the moment.
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I have been sick enough that I have had t stop in middle of putting a patient on to puke and still wasn't allowed to leave.
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I am sorry that it has come to that for you. I don't know who is crazier, the patients for allowing you to be around them, or the idiot who is running the clinic for having you around the patients. It is a simple fact that if the patient is to sick to come to the clinic, then that is one more missed treatment that the clinic isn't going to get paid for.
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This is my first post so here it goes..I am currently in Dialysis Tech class at a local vocational school ( decided I needed a career change after almost 20 as a police officer), and I have been an ET for almost 10 years.
Our clinical instructor has told us, that if we are sick, not to come to clinicals and be a risk to the patients and other staff. Of course there is a difference between my tummy hurts, ie. I just don't want to go to work, and legitimate illness.
Just my input and 2 cents. :)
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I hope you feel better. And if I heard or saw a clinic staff person sick I would be very concerned. Why risk getting the patients sick?
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I dont like working sick, so I do try to stay away even while there. I wipe chairs and machines, papework, all while wearing a mask and gloves.
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the disservice is working sick around those with compromised immune system.
other colleagues should pick up the slack
what goes around comes around
everyone will get there chance to have a s**t of a day
:clap;
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You should not be in the presence of patients with compromised immune systems if you are sick. There is no question about that. Coming in sick is a life-and-death issue for the patients you expose to illness