which i the disservice

[caringpct]

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?

[The Lone IT from HM]

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.

[caringpct]

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.

[The Lone IT from HM]

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.

[emtlewis]

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.

[okarol]

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?

[caringpct]

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. 

[Ang]

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
 

[jalexander451]

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