After being an employee for 27 years, the biggest con is #1 PAY. Northside pays less than the average ATL hospital and that is really discouraging for nurses. Especially when nurses who have been loyal and stay with the company for years are working alongside travel nurses making double. NSH wouldn't need travelers if they paid the nurses! Then the units would be staffed appropriately and patient satisfaction would improve. Seems like an easy fix to me. Stop bringing in consultants to find out why nurses are leaving and ASK THE NURSES. Then offer them the pay they deserve. Once the units are staffed and the nurses feel valued they will stay. ESPECIALLY, if they fix Con #2: Managers who undervalue and micromanage their nurses. Managers need to be selected with much stricter criteria. To manage a unit they need at least 5 years of nursing experience ON THAT UNIT, so that they understand the challenges their nurses are facing and can actively advocate for the employees.
