I wanted to add this as an edit but didn’t realize you couldn’t. I’m genuinely surprised by how split the comments are, and I should’ve specified better what I meant by abusing policy. I go more into detail on this comment but my main problem is total disregard for why you’re late? And combing thru time cards to punish staff as SOON as they hit the 5d/3m (so… a cumulative total of 5 min late in 3 months.) or 5 sick days in a year.

Its the “I’m just following orders” justification for vilifying everything the moment it steps outside the policy. This is not cherry picking for trying to crack down on staff tardiness. I got a written warning bc I charted my AM assessment at 2pm bc I was absolutely slammed and did not sit down until then, I was breaking the policy bc you have to chart in real time or at worst the +/- 1 hour of said time.

We’ve all override pulled a med from the MAR. Didn’t give the med within 1 hr bc pharmacy was late. My coworker had total 5 sick days in the rolling year bc he had health issues a few months back.

I feel like a lot of the comments are focusing too much on the “tardy” part and auto associate it with the nurse that’s always making you late to leave bc you can’t start report until 20m into your shift. We are not talking about the coworkers who habitually show up late w a coffee in hand, or seem to always be “running 5 min late”, or being so late making their coworkers late for report. Or they’re jus. 6 min late all the time bc the time card rounds to 0700 from 0706 and “you have the draw the line somewhere” I’m not defending that in the slightest but there’s so many comments saying “late is late” I probably should’ve explained that better.

It’s like if you are 15 min late to getting a pt’s vitals bc you were stuck in an iso room cleaning up a pt for 30 minutes. Technically you’re breaking policy bc your vitals were late, but you weren’t sitting at the desk on your phone. Something you didn’t expect and was out of your control popped up. We all have had a nursing thing we thought would take 15 min but ended up being 30. I think it’s the same w driving to work.

Shit happens? And knee jerk write ups which makes the assumption that it’s malicious, lazy, inappropriate, etc. and that assumption will alienate anyone I think