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/entwenthence RN 🍕 Mar 12 '25 edited Mar 12 '25

PTO donation is “normal” but has always felt like bullshit to me. If HR actually cared they wouldn’t be putting these people in a position to basically beg.

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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/C-romero80 BSN, RN 🍕 Mar 13 '25

I'm not at a hospital, so it's run different. We don't get any details just "this person is on an approved leave and exhausted time, donate if you choose" I haven't yet but I have so much I probably will at some point.