Two Days

[Cardiolyte]

New hospital policy is that you can only have 2 days off a year, a rolling year. We went from six days to two days. Does not matter why. No doctor notes, et. We​ receive merit salary increases partly influenced by attendance.

Very unhappy employees.

[lovenotwar14]

Our management has cut back on everything RN. No bonus for picking up extra shifts no meal passes, no, no and more no. Nurses should not be in it for the $. So, no cost of living raises, first one in over 7 years was 0.75. Mandatory everything, staff meetings at 0715 and 1515 only. Hiring only new grads that don't yet care about the pt more than their popularity. Micromanaged. No relief for lunch, no breaks at all. Management plays favorites, does not come out of their offices to help out. They actually yell at employees, usually at the front desk. And we've been on mandatory 80hrs for over a year. Those that work 72 hrs have to work an extra 8 on any shift management picks.[/quote']

I would've been quit.

[Nurse SMS, MSN, RN]

Time to find a different job.

[HouTx, BSN, MSN, EdD]

Wow - just wow

[Here.I.Stand, BSN, RN]

I'd be looking elsewhere...just me though, I'd be in trouble with a policy like that. Living with five petri dishes--er, children--I always get sick more than twice a year.

Like the FMLA suggestion.

[LadyFree28, BSN, LPN, RN]

Wow - just wow

THIS.

I agree with getting familiar with FMLA.

[generalRN2008]

Our management has cut back on everything RN. No bonus for picking up extra shifts no meal passes, no, no and more no. Nurses should not be in it for the $. So, no cost of living raises, first one in over 7 years was 0.75. Mandatory everything, staff meetings at 0715 and 1515 only. Hiring only new grads that don't yet care about the pt more than their popularity. Micromanaged. No relief for lunch, no breaks at all. Management plays favorites, does not come out of their offices to help out. They actually yell at employees, usually at the front desk. And we've been on mandatory 80hrs for over a year. Those that work 72 hrs have to work an extra 8 on any shift management picks.[/quote']

I would go elsewhere but this is really common

[hope3456, ASN, RN]

Maybe they are trying to get RNs to quit, intentionally.

[VANurse2010]

The attendance policy is bad but not in and of itself a reason to quit - combined with everything else you've mentioned... time for them to take that job and shove it.

[applewhitern, BSN, RN]

We only get paid sick time for the 3rd consecutive day we are out. That means if you are absent from work for 2 days, you won't get paid, regardless how much "time" you have saved up. I haven't seen bonuses for extra shifts, or any other incentive, in years. We don't get extra pay for holidays, etc., either. If it is your scheduled day to work, you work as usual for the usual pay. We have a LOT of call-outs, but management doesn't seem to mind too much, since they don't pay us anyway.

[mom-wife-nurse]

Wow!! That's horrible!!

[applewhitern, BSN, RN]

I have taken FMLA twice before, in order to take care of a sick family member. It was quite simple, and didn't matter that I wasn't the one who was sick.

[jadelpn, LPN, EMT-B]

Remember, they can get 2 or sometimes even 3 RN's for the price of employees who put in the time and are in a higher pay bracket. Sounds like they would love for ya'll to leave--and creating more and more ways that you can do so.

By this whole 2 days thing, they can say that it is a "patient safety" issue, which is really hard to argue, which can mean a fight for unemployment.

If facilities spent half the time they seem to on creating ways to get as much as they can for as little as possible on what is in the best interest of patients and best use of staff and making them satisfied in the process--I am not sure what they think is gonna happen--people are actually happy to work? They reap in patient satisfaction?

I swear if their salaries were based on the satisfaction of the nursing staff in the workplace--wow, wouldn't that be something!