Pros
Great coworkers Good holiday and call pay
Cons
Management does not care about their employees outside of the walls of the hospital, they provide no flexibility. If it doesn’t benefit them they will not work with you. They will create new positions and job descriptions out of thin air but when you ask for them to work with your schedule in light of life happening outside of the hospital they claim that their hands are tied. Also their sign on bonus program is a trap. Unlike every other hospital their bonuses are not prorated, meaning that if you leave a month early they will require that you pay back the full amount paid to you pretax! You may not have seen the full amount but they’ll make you pay back the full amount. Worse than that they don’t tell you this when offering you the sign on bonus. If you accept it they send you a e-signature link, you sign and then you see your bonus after 60 days of your start date. It is never mentioned again. The worst part is that the page you sign to accept the bonus and the full contract itself with all the stipulations are different, so if you’re assuming your offer sounds too good to be true, it is. Cutting hours isn’t an option either. If you try to cut hours you will also be required to pay back the full amount, which is strange because in those scenarios they give you no incentive to stay even if you want to. Hospital is not a well-oiled machine, including surgical services, which is wild to me. Departments do not work well together. It’s a fight to get patients where they need to go and you hold patients for hours in procedural areas where they shouldn’t be held and as you can imagine it not only greatly delays the work flow, and makes us procedural nurses feel like we’re working on a tele floor, but it also makes patients very unhappy. Also, they don’t do a great job at staffing. On a slow day you have way too many staff but on a very busy day you are short nurses and help and are stretched thin. They have nurses that are willing to come in to help but don’t because they refuse to pay them call pay to pick up extra, which only makes sense when you’re asking nurses to work more than their full time requirements and additional call requirements. They rather let their nurses drown for the day than offer other nurses an incentive. Worst part, they will squeeze 50-70 cases in 6 hours and then low workload you once they got a handle on it and no longer need you. No hours are guaranteed in procedural areas. Count on being low work-loaded a lot and chewing through your hard earned PTO.