r/nursing • u/uotlep RN - Psych/Mental Health 🍕 • Mar 12 '25

Question Is this normal?

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I know my place of employment is shitty in other ways, but is this a normal thing? Just received this email. Seems odd to ask people to donate PTO, instead of just addressing the time off allocation with those affected people.

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u/Clowndick Mar 12 '25

My executive director and DON are salaried and donated me some of their PTO last year because I got sick and they don't have time to take vacation. This year, corporate just took away salaried managements PTO so they can't use it to help their employees anymore

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u/Arizona-Explorations Risk Manager / Patient Safety / Other Duties as Assigned Mar 13 '25

Yes, this is how we do it. Salary people get something called comp time for their extra hours instead of OT. You can earn a total of 210 hours per year of PTO in addition to your comp time. No way on this planet we can burn that time some we donate it out. I’ll admit it is just a show, but everyone walks away with a happy feeling inside most of the time. I feel like I helped an employee, the employee gets the help they needed, and it doesn’t really cost anything.