What is a typical working day like at CommonSpirit Health?

This is the best place to work. They pay extremely well, have great benefits and get good PTO hours in your bank. The management is absolutely amazing! My coworkers are the best ever! We have such a good team in every shift, it makes nursing so much more enjoyable.

I have not found any cons yet in the job!

Fast faced, exciting, level 2 trauma center. Great team work, great doctors. Love hanging ekg techs during the day and phlebotomist 24/7 in the er.

Culture could be better. More politics on day shift than night shift, which has more relaxed management

Great benefits. Hours allow me to make much more than base rate, shift differential, weekend differential, 401k plus pension.

Low census days may get sent home.

If you like working in a variety of areas and not being set in one specialty this is the job for you. Everyday is a new adventure in a new area and always something new to learn! Can be a stepping stone to a new specialty!

You sometimes end up transitioning to multiple units within a shift which means more patient reports, more charting, and more flexibility on your end. This rarely happens though! No nursing team centered approach to care unless you work on the med/surg unit where they honestly do a pretty good job when appropriately staffed. Management is like most places, too focused on trivial items (white board updates) verses actual patient care like bathing, dressing, grooming. Corporate financial goals outweigh appropriate ratios to take care of patients and provide basic daily cares (like many other places).

The nursing ICU staff is great

Only two MDs at night to respond to emergencies, very unsafe during rapid responses/codes.

Stable babies 1:2 ratio They give you free scrubs

Escalation to structured conversations instead of real-time coaching. No clear guidance. Outdated practices (e.g., drawing caffeine levels weekly if a baby is on caffeine, regardless of dose), and many more. Support is minimal at best (I received one shift of orientation when I was supposed to have at least 3–6). Textbook nurse bullies. Textbook profit over patient safety. Textbook fly-by management style. Nurses will complain if you have too many blankets or not enough. Unsafe narcotic wasting and counting system (they do it by hand on a spreadsheet , no joke). Low retention rate, especially for a NICU. In the span of eight months, 6–7 people quit. Management is performative and will literally lie to you.

Diverse staff and patient population Uniform program Management depending on the unit

CNA/patient ratios Parking fee for day shift No benefits if working under 0.75 FTE

Significant room for improvement and change for those looking for a challenge. Management verbally celebrates hard work. Lead techs are extremely talented. Diversity and Inclusion: everyone has a chance to succeed in this laboratory.

Lab: Failing equipment, some with no service contracts. At least one piece of major equipment in need of repair, often for weeks at a time. Laboratory is dirty, unorganized, runs out of supplies and has to borrow from sister clinics. Trash and sample blood splatter on the floor and surrounding area. Outdated operating procedures printed and laminated for use. Patient samples found underneath storage racks in the walk-in cooler. TAT lags behind by hours until more staff arrive to allow for proper analysis. New hires (phleb, bench techs) resign before training complete Culture: Relationship between day, evening and night shifts is strained. Employees abuse break policy and leave 30 minutes early, instead of taking scheduled breaks/meal time. Tests with 4 hour TAT, are left for shift change in 3.5 hours. High volume loss of staff in last 12 months. Manager/director rarely work bench when short-staffed. CEO (Andrew Gaasch) support: none immediately recognizable to staff, or has not been communicated. Operations support: none immediately recognizable to staff, or has not been communicated. Career Opportunities: none immediately recognizable to staff, or has not been communicated.

Management is probably the best employer I had, coworkers were great.

Shifts had gossip between them, that's why night shift was best.

Good co workers Fairly decent pay

Not enough staffing per patient ratio, and they are currently expanding at the hospital I was at without having the staff to support it. (My 3rd time at the hospital I had 17 patients on the medical floor by myself. That is unsafe. Period.) Do not compensate for room and board, or mileage when you travel 50-300 miles for shifts. (Some positions require travel from Denver to Kansas for 2 weeks- the company does not compensate, but they say because they give you a higher base pay it will cover that. My travel differential was $1.50 in my position and I had 97 miles to drive 1 way.) Not enough orientation on the floor before you start at a new hospital. But you get a whole week of zoom classes before you get to start. Corporate doesn’t seem to care about or listen to its employees. They give a generic response and that’s about as far as anything seems to go. Corporate is also good about changing things in the day to day scheduling and what not (they are in Denver and I worked in Kansas). One night the hospital set me up to work in the hospital closest to my home. I went and later found out that a lady in Denver changed me to a city 50 miles away, and sent another aid who lives in that city to the hospital I was in. It seems like a power thing.