A lot of work for little pay - Patient Care Assistant (PCA) Geisinger Employee Review

3.0
24 Aug 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

You get to interact with patients and families and get to know and comfort people in a time of uncertainty and need

Cons

For what is expected of patient care assisstants they are terribly underpaid. There were times where I had higher patient ratios than what it was like when I worked in a nursing home, which is terrible. I also did not care for the attitudes of a lot of the nurses, who really put a lot of work on PCAs, even though they were paid at least twice the amount as an average PCA. Communication tended to be poor, it was just the attitude of some of the nurses. It never felt like a team.

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Pros

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Cons

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Pros

Worked fully remote which worked for me. Great health benefits. Worked for health plan not clinical.

Cons

Limited opportunities for growth without a college degree. Typical corporate where they cut resources and make big demands. Many long time employees which I thought was a pro at first, but realized they are stuck in old ways and don’t really want to hear a fresh new perspective or even spend time developing new people. As someone with ambition and interest in contributing, I felt stuck, limited, and bored.

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