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Having a nurse on staff

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In the past you used to see schools that had a school nurse on staff, and it is from this tradition that some employers have come up with the idea of having a nurse on staff at their places of employment. The reason for this is that if your business had a nurse on staff, somebody who knew about various medical conditions that could affect your staff, you as a business owner would not be faced with trying to figure out if your employees are really sick or if they are just pretending to be sick so they can go home for the day. Having a nurse on staff would allow you to let the nurse decide for you if somebody was too sick to be at work or if they were just looking for some kind of an excuse to get out of working. This would be a huge benefit to your place of business because it would mean that fewer people would be trying to take advantage of the sick policy or even paid sick days. However, having a nurse on staff might persuade your company to adopt some kind of sick policy so that employees would quit coming into work when they are sick.

Despite how nice the idea of having a nurse on staff is, the idea is not a practical idea for everybody. One of the main reasons that it is not a practical idea is because for most businesses having a nurse on staff is going to cost them money because you will be paying the nurse to sit around and do nothing for the most part. The reason that they will be sitting round is because most people who call in sick to work are going to do so before they even get into work. In this case, the nurse is not going to be able to tell you if they are really sick or if they are faking it. Having a nurse on staff would only be helpful if employees came into work sick because the nurse could send them home during the day.

If you had a sick policy in place for your workplace having a nurse on staff would be a waste of money because it would already be written down as to what can happen if your employees need to miss work because they are sick. Most sick policies require that your employees provide some kind of doctor's note that proves that an employee was too sick to come into work. With this being the case the nurse would not need to verify if the employee was too sick. The nurse could be useful if you didn't require a doctor's note for employee's missing work, if the nurse sent them home it should count the same as if they saw a doctor.

However, with today's privacy law a doctor or nurse cannot legally give out your personal medical information, not even in the form of a note, to anybody but you and people you authorize it released to. This makes it hard for a nurse to inform your employer about what is wrong with you because all that they can say by law is that you were seen by a nurse or a doctor and that you are going to be missing work. This privacy law makes it even more futile to have a nurse on staff because their hands are tied when it comes to validating if an employee is too sick to work or not. However, if you have a good sick policy in place there should not be any reason as to why you need to have a nurse on staff because your office will already be healthier than others.

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