PTO/Sick Leave for Nurses

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I think it would be interesting to see how many PTO/sick leave days everyone gets in their varoius positions and if you feel that it is sufficient to create work/life balance. Please indicate how long it took to get to the accrual you are currently at.

Specializes in Family Medicine.

I receive 6.15 hours of PTO per pay period. I just had my first week last week so at this point, I have enough PTO to take a 3.075 hour vacation! :) Woohoo!

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Specializes in geriatrics.

I think we're entitled to 1 and a half days per month.

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Specializes in Spinal Cord injuries, Emergency+EMS.

just to sicken people ( and provide yet another reason why the UK isn't that bad )

once you have 5 years service you can have up to 6 months full average pay and 6 months half average pay for sick leave in a rolling 12 month period - all supported after the first 7 days by medical certification, however having more than 4 or 5 episodes of sickness in a year can result i capability procedures being used and if you have real attendance problems even with medical certification and the provisions of the equality act you could still be dismissed.

On appointment you get 27 leave 'days' and 8 public holiday 'days' - so 262.5 hours of annual leave a year ( if you work in a 24/7 environment - otherwise you get the public hoildays as they occur), and further 2 'days' (15 hours) after 5 and then 10 years service and we are getting an extra 7.5 hours leave this year because of the royal wedding ...

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Specializes in private duty/home health, med/surg.
The last two years I worked as a staff RN in OB they changed the policy. Even though we earned about 7 hours/pay period, no matter how much time we had saved up, when we called in we received a demerit. Three demerits in a year and you received a written warning. Five demerits and you received a second warning. Six demerits and you were terminated. So basically, you could only call in five times a year.

Oh, and a weekend/holiday call in equaled 2 demerits. Of course, I worked Fri, Sat and Sun because I was in NP school, so I could call in only twice a year.

The only time a call in didn't cause demerits was if it was related to an FMLA condition. So you bet those who ALWAYS called in before the policy change went to their docs and got some kind of FMLA papers filled out. So, all they had to do was say they were calling in for their migraine, back pain, fibromyalgia, or whatever and they had up to 12 weeks of call ins demerit free.

PS - I'm not saying those aren't legitimate conditions for an FMLA, only that it seemed that for SOME of those people they suddenly and conveniently had such a condition that no one had ever heard of before that time.

If my hospital adopted a policy as ridiculous as this one, you bet I'd be devloping a condition that required intermittent FMLA. Any employer that wants to punish employees for every call in deserves to have everyone on FMLA.

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Specializes in LTC Family Practice.
just to sicken people ( and provide yet another reason why the UK isn't that bad )

once you have 5 years service you can have up to 6 months full average pay and 6 months half average pay for sick leave in a rolling 12 month period - all supported after the first 7 days by medical certification, however having more than 4 or 5 episodes of sickness in a year can result i capability procedures being used and if you have real attendance problems even with medical certification and the provisions of the equality act you could still be dismissed.

On appointment you get 27 leave 'days' and 8 public holiday 'days' - so 262.5 hours of annual leave a year ( if you work in a 24/7 environment - otherwise you get the public hoildays as they occur), and further 2 'days' (15 hours) after 5 and then 10 years service and we are getting an extra 7.5 hours leave this year because of the royal wedding ...

I'm moving to England...7.5 hours off for the royal wedding:eek: I am soooo working in the wrong country, I'm lucky to get time off when I had a full blown episode of Epstein Barr coupled with acute Lymes and was dead on my feet the only thing that kept me from getting fired was call out from my hospital bed:mad: anything less would have resulted in being fired. I live in one of those states where workers have no rights.

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I am not sure but it must be a hell of a lot based on the number of call-outs.

:smokin::barf01:

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