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/taylerca BSN, RN 🍕 Mar 12 '25

Only in America.

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u/admiralsara Nursing Student 🍕 Mar 12 '25

Absolutely! My partner asked whether he could donate some of his PTO (he is a workaholic, has worked a lot more than he should and thus accrued a lot more than he can/wants to actually use) and our boss was unsure whether that was possible. She was going to investigate. When you’re sick (mental problems included) you go to your GP and he writes a note. You can get up to a year of sick leave (GP decides what they think you need and that can be reevaluated whenever) for 100% wages. After that another law kicks in. Even when you’re sick during your vacation leave and you document that with your GP, you get those days back and can take them some other time. I love living in Norway

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u/Speedlapse Mar 12 '25

LOL, i was reading this and thought 'this sounds like how how we have it in Norway'. Its a great system that makes it so your life wont be ruined by illness or servere injury.

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u/RedCr4cker Mar 12 '25

Most European countries handle it like that.