Pros
My DON, CEO and house supervisors are the best. I’m really just blown away by them. How they all work together to make it happen for our patients and our teams. We have alot of good team work at my Kindred home. When I am spoken to about missing something or documenting something incorrectly I never feel like I’m being micro-managed. I genuinely feel like they care and want to see me be successful, so that the patients receive excellent care. With that being said, prior to Kindred I worked for one of the biggest chained healthcare organizations in Louisville for 7 years, I had just gotten my annual pay raise and MAX’d out. On my second telephone interview with Kindred they offered me a job and I told them I had another interview at UofL and then they asked me how much I made at the time. They said “we will match that with a dollar more an hour and a 15k sign on contract”. — so pay is GOOD and FAIR! I also love the assignments they give me. They are fair and well planned. Don’t get me wrong, it’s hard work.. but they do a good job at dividing the teams so it’s equal and you’re not drowning while someone else has a cake walk. (They use post shift patient assessment ratings called “KHATs” to distribute them evenly. They know I’m strong with neuro because I used to be an epilepsy nurse and I have a year in at the local certified stroke center, so I usually get the TBI, spinal abscess or stroke recovery.
Cons
They are growing. Making many changes to help improve how things run. I would say we are currently “under maitenence”. It’s hard for us to succeed when the turn over rate is so high. I think newly hired nurses get spooked about working the ventilated patients. It’s getting better though. It’s also not Kindreds fault, it’s just a challenging point in the patients care when it comes to the status they arrive in. They are usually on feeding tubes, on the vent or tpiece. I’ve had to call code sepsis before on two admissions at the same time.. So yeah, it’s hard. Most times I feel like I suck and I can’t be a good nurse, but when I enter my patients room those feelings go away.. so I just keep busy with my team. They do give us many helpful tools and allow us a generous amount of protocols. I’ve been here for a little over a year now and I’m still learning something new we have everyday. But if you’re a seasoned nurse you’d know this is typical for any hospital.
