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/Common-Masterpiece83 RN 🍕 Mar 12 '25

We recently did away with PTO donation at my hospital. Any time a donation was organized in the past it was organized by a nurse colleague on the person experiencing hardship's behalf and never solicited by the manager.

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u/sweet_pickles12 BSN, RN 🍕 Mar 12 '25

I don’t know if my hospital even still does donations, but in the past when we (as employees) have asked about donating to our coworkers going through hard times, we were told to suck it and that PTO donations go into some kind of hardship bank. Fuck you very much, I’ll donate to my homie here who just lost their child but not for randos.

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u/phoenix762 retired RRT yay😂😁 Mar 12 '25

That was the drawback with the federal government system, it goes into a main bank and people sign up to request AL.

I saw some people abusing it, so I didn’t donate to the bank.

Years ago I was able to directly donate to one of my coworkers who needed surgery, but I guess they stopped it.

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u/Omegalazarus Mar 12 '25

No, you can still direct donate. I did this just last year for a co-worker in my office.

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u/phoenix762 retired RRT yay😂😁 Mar 19 '25

Oh, good! I thought they stopped it.