Holidays :-(

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GemRVN — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 09:12:17 GMT

UPDATE... After a discussion with my boss and pouring my heart to her she said she'd see what she could do. The other nurses have been great and totally agree what the Head VN has said is so unfair. We do get 4 weeks (20 days) plus bank holidays and we all have to work 1 bank holiday week each and maybe the odd day over christmas/new year. After speaking to a previous collegue after we have been there 5 years we are entitled to an extra day's holiday, i've been there for 5 and a half now so the boss promised me she'll look into this and let me know next week!!! My holiday could go ahead!!! Plus it gets the bf off my back for a few days!!!! xxx

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Sandra Taylor RVN, MBVNA — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 21:24:11 GMT

[quote user="Gillian Mostyn"]

[quote user="STRVN"]Is the holiday entitlement not 28 days leave? or do you guys get the bank holidays as well?[/quote]

yeah - 20 days plus BHs.

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It always confuses me when people say they get 20 days, thats why I asked......... me being someone who has rarely had the luxury of a BH, so when the entitlement went up from 20- 24-28 there was lots of whooping from me.

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Gillian Mostyn — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 21:21:26 GMT

[quote user="STRVN"]Is the holiday entitlement not 28 days leave? or do you guys get the bank holidays as well?[/quote]

yeah - 20 days plus BHs.

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Faye Sewell — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 21:16:19 GMT

[quote user="Gillian Mostyn"]One of our nurses lives 4 hours drive away from her parents, so often takes long weekends off.[/quote] - That's me!

[quote user="Gillian Mostyn"]We have a low staff turnover, so this hopefully means they're happy with the system...but you'd have to ask Faye!!![/quote] -

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Vicky RVN — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 21:00:48 GMT

Yeah i thought it was a bit strange, don't know quite how they get away with it! I suppose i should have looked into it while i was there but i signed the contract cos i was so desperate for a SVN place. I only worked there for 8 months, wasn't particularly happy there!

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Sandra Taylor RVN, MBVNA — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 20:58:09 GMT

Is the holiday entitlement not 28 days leave? or do you guys get the bank holidays as well?

Vicky I am pretty sure a place cannot make you take sick leave as holidays.

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Vicky RVN — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 20:53:52 GMT

That doesn't sound very fair at all. We have 4 nurses and get 4 weeks holiday. We can take it as we like. We only get statutory sick pay so may as well have none! My old practice sick days were taken off of our holiday, no choice as to if we wanted to take it as unpaid leave. Consequently the one day i was ill i dragged myself into work and fell asleep on the sofa at lunch time and fell asleep at the branch surgery cos we had no clients! I prob passed the bug on to a few people as well, but i didn't want to loose holiday time, my time of is precious and i don't want to waste it being ill!

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Gillian Mostyn — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 20:36:40 GMT

[quote user="Mrs Dot Dot"]What are your rules and regs then?[/quote]

Erm.....well.....we don't really have any. Nurses get 4 weeks per year/20 days - to take pretty much as they wish, be it a few days here and there or full weeks. One of our nurses lives 4 hours drive away from her parents, so often takes long weekends off. Another likes her holidays in Magaluf so saves it up to take in in the summer in a couple of holidays. Makes little difference either way really. They can swap shifts etc as long as they are covered and other staff don't mind. Holidays are booked on a first-come-first served basis but there is rarely any conflict for dates. Haven't had anybody abuse the system yet......

Sick pay (or, more precisely, the lack of) drives me barmy. We pay sick pay for 4 weeks in every rolling 52 weeks - and are happy to tell people to stay at home if they are ill. We don't want them to struggle in ill, pass on their bugs to everyone else and be completely ineffective anyway. Again...system isn't abused....have very few sick days taken every year. Maybe because people can take time off if they need it eh?

We have a low staff turnover, so this hopefully means they're happy with the system...but you'd have to ask Faye!!!

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Mrs Dot Dot — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 17:37:04 GMT

[quote user="Gillian Mostyn"]

wow.....you've all made me feel I'm too soft......

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What are your rules and regs then?

It varies so much from practice to practice.

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Gillian Mostyn — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 14:34:09 GMT

wow.....you've all made me feel I'm too soft......

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Kerry Spain — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 10:56:45 GMT

I'm afraid that we have to take the first 2 weeks of our holidays before June and the other 2 weeks afterwards. We are only allowed 4 fridays off per year, which is crap for me as one of my hobbies is attending festivals which normally takes up a long weekend!

Plus if we are poorly sick for a day then this gets taken off our holidays as we don't get paid for it (so we have the choice to either be docked a days pay or scrap a days holiday )

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dinkyd — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 09:51:15 GMT

Sounds a bit unreasonable/unfair.Whar does your contract state?Mrs Dot Dot gave some fab ideas.I can understand your bf's reaction lol!Also Suggest you werent at this meeting and therefore was not able to voice your opinion?Good luck hope you get your hols!

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Mrs Dot Dot — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 02:03:11 GMT

Hiya! It sounds abit harsh but maybe it's just a knee jerk reaction? I should think it's worth having a quiet word with your head nurse to ask in private... it was her that made the rules? Was the arguement a stupid one? Did it leave you shortstaffed? How about the rest of the nurses getting together to discuss it and then going to the head nurse? I should think if you all discuss it between you and then take it to the head nurse it shows that you can be responsible for yourselves... you are adults after all and work as a team so should have some responsibilties among yourselves.... decide on a practice protocol for swapping shifts etc write it down, make everyone aware of it, even have a form to be filled in and signed by everyone and then everyone knows where they stang... Good luck!