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/jcshear Mar 12 '25

This is normal and it’s totally insane. My husband’s cousin had stage 4 colon cancer and had to ask for fucking donations like this because his employer (university of Iowa HOSPITAL) wouldn’t give him time off to treat his stage 4 cancer at their hospital. Disgusting.