Pros
I love the patients. This is an excellent facility in the sense that it give hope to patient's that have lost it. I see remarkable outcomes from most.
Cons
It is off season so they are taking any patient that they can get in the door, a lot not appropriate for this facility. We are mostly understaffed, but they are working on it. High turnover rate. Half of our staff is agency nurses and techs so they are limited as to what they can do. Agency techs cant chart so they are instructed to give all of their notes to their nurses at the end of the shift for the nurse to do both her and the tech's charting. Understaffing or destaffing make it hard to get nursing work done due to having to answer call lights half the time with toileting, and getting the patient's out of bed, set up for breakfast, dressed and ready for therapy, all while trying to pass meds on time. It is a private hospital with key focus on revenue. Anytime it is a nice day, we are destaffed, no matter how stressful and overworked the nurses and techs are. Pay is not very good. Took a pay cut when going to this facility. I now make what I did 5 years ago.
