Two Days

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.

Oh. My. God. Does this apply to all hospital employees, or only to nurses? Can you imagine any other place of employment trying to pull this?

What is going on in this world?????

All employees. The office 9-5 should not have as a hard time with this, as the nurses with 12 hour shifts.

Where I work you are allowed 2 occurrences in 90 days or 3 in 6 months. So if you are out, you stay out until you are back to 100%. It's a dumb policy and doesn't stop the chronic call offs. People get FMLA and then their attendance sucks again. Get it ASAP and CYA.

wow- who is only sick 2 days of the year? hope they like everyone coming in sick to work.

No, no, and no. You are a PROFESSIONAL..you are not being treated as one.

Management is flogging the remaining nurses in order to maintain THEIR idea of control.

Please.. don't allow this abuse and move on.

Oh, and just to throw in there....if a facility policy states you have to stay home if you have one of any number of illness, then that is quite the catch 22, no? Or if you are sent home due to the employee health nurse sending you home....

It is astounding to me that a place where patients are vulnerable, where nurses can and do spread illness to each other, their families, along with already compromised patients...that this would be an issue at all.

Wait until the first time an ill patient gets a secondary infection from a nurse who is unable to call out ill. Or that insurance declines paying for ANY hospital acquired illness.....

Haven't read all the comments but I'm guessing that you're not union.

No not union. As of Thursday of last week, management has changed the policy again. Now we are allowed four days. What are they doing?