Pros
Benefits, coworkers, overtime availability, working/having a job, finding another job when you cant take it anymore
Cons
Unorganized, extremely understaffed, do more with less mentality by management, they retaliate for speaking up about conditions or if you don't drink the kool-aid that they are the best around, they don't care about patient safety only patient volume, a lot of people on staff are overwhelmed with the workload but they don't speak up for fear of retaliation, lots of nursing/ staff turnover,most departments seem to be understaffed/overworked as well, management constantly changes due to poor retention, so no real structure exists do to new managers changing policies how they see fit only for it to not be followed and changed once management changes again, no detailed written policies for handling situations only reactive politics once a situations occurs,Human resources is basically remote and every question will be redirected to your leader/ immediate manager and what they deem appropriate based on the situation so if they are your problem they are also the only resource for your solution, Nurses risk licensure each shift due to unsafe patient ratios ,and being forced to operate out of scope of practice and severe understaffing, broken equipment , environment is extremely toxic, but they push a customer service atmosphere with patients, a lot of the MDs are basically absent many dont even discuss the plan of care with there patients, many of the patients seem confused or dont agree with treatments, they don't listen to the nurses about possible medication interactions, extremely low or high vitals signs for some patients, pain mangement for certain conditions, ex: one refused pain medication for a cancer patient because he said it was a chronic condition, good luck getting a response from them in an emergent situation or requesting them to come to the bedside, the messaging system allows them to leave you on read for hours, my guess is they are overwhelmed as well, nurses are expected to pick up the slack if the department is understaffed, drawing labs,vital signs, cleaning/ clearing patient rooms of trays disinfecting patient beds and IV pumps,rooms, trash pickup in rooms, Emergency room report is literally a joke, you are expected to review a new incoming patient within 15 minutes so most times your accepting a patient without report from the emergency department usually at shift change which is extremely dangerous for the patient and risky for the nurse it forces you to take patients that you can't question at all because "you didn't review them in time" if you are able to look through the patient record in time to ask a question the patient is already being transported to the unit before an answer can be given