Giving two week notice...

[Jess_Missouri_RN]

So I've finally secured a home health position and am ready to submit my 2 week notice to my nurse manager. My (silly) question. My two week notice will be over my two week vacation. Is that ok to do? I won't technically have a last day worked. I'm just trying to word my formal letter. I won't come back to the hospital from vacation.

[Jess_Missouri_RN]

I have not put in my two weeks notice yet and have a week before leaving on vacation. After much thought I have decided to talk to HR on Monday and ask them about leaving and my vacation coverage. I also have been thinking about giving my notice on Monday, working that week, leaving for vacation and then returning and working another week. So that would be a month notice with two weeks worked and two weeks gone. I just need to clarify that those two weeks gone would be covered with PTO and that would only push my start date with new job a week back and I could possibly work it out that I can work one or two days when I return before starting full time with them. So I guess it's all up to what HR tells me when I talk to them about this.

[tyvin, BSN, RN]

Good for you jess...HR is who you should have talked to in the first place to find out if there are any rules related to the vacation thing. You sound smart. It's better to look at these types of things without emotion like a business transaction. We tend to assign too much emotion to it. I'm old school and I've always had the security of a union (which requires resignation proportional to actual work years/weeks).

As far as your future boss being mad about waiting due to notice to resign, I think they will look at it like "I hope she will be considerate with us like that should she ever quit."

What comes around goes around. In fact it's one of my special questions when interviewing nurses...what amount of time did you give your last place of work and why.

Good luck to you.

[tinybbynurse]

I know this is old ...

But I agree that what does it matter WHEN she puts in her two weeks?? They've already planned to staff without her while she's on vacation ...and it just so works out that during this time she landed a new job...so honestly I think it's a great idea to go ahead and put on the two weeks...they already know she won't be there and now they know she won't be coming back so they can find a replacement....she is not over burdening them seeing as how they already knew she'd be on vacation therefore staffed around that already ... and why would they want to waste their time training someone on a new system who is leaving?? Seems like they'd rather her just have put in her two weeks while on vacation like she already planned to do. And as for what the manager thinks ...who cares. Two weeks is two weeks regardless of when she puts it in. If she thinks she did it on prepped while on vacation that's her problem ...she can think what she wants and she may not think anything about it. And heck, two weeks is a courtesy and not required by law Anyway.