Pros
Helping to care for some of the most vulnerable of populations- SMI.
Cons
Recent administration changes have ruined ASH. Nursing admin has ZERO psych experience and are terribly underhanded. CEO doesn't care about staff who do all of the patient care and he turns up his nose to anyone who tries to interact with him about how to improve things. Staff are assaulted on a regular basis. Patients are assaulted by other patients on a regular basis. ZERO support for floor staff from administration. Salaries are much lower than average for the job. Benefits used to be pretty good and a major selling point for the lack of pay but when you leave you find out their benefits are NOT so great. No longer promoting from within because they want to bring in their friends who are underqualified or NOT qualified to run the nursing department. ASH is the worst I have even seen it (in 20 years) under the current administration. Sad situation for long time employees who have seen the culture deteriorate at the hands of underqualified horrible nursing administration. The forensic campus is full of drugs and nothing is done to stop it. HR does nothing to stop upper managements targeting of staff.