Supportive team offers valuable learning despite high stress - Social Worker RWJBarnabas Health Employee Review

Culture is great if you have a great direct supervisor

Pay could definitely improved more competitive

Not many - for the particular RWJ hospital I worked at, I really couldn’t say unfortunately

No support from management and fairly unsafe working conditions - had to leave because it felt like I was risking my license every time I went to work. I felt really sorry for the patients who needed help, but really could not be accommodated. I was part of the night shift crew on a psych unit - max 20 patients I believe. Patients verbalized to me that it felt more like a prison than a “healing environment”. Also heavily geriatric - many patients were total care. The psych unit is not equipped for total care patients nor properly staffed. The last straw was being the only nurse scheduled to work on a Saturday with 1 MHA - full house, had two 1:1s and one was total care. If you have a 1:1, you’re basically short 1 person. I knew there was no coverage or much effort in finding one - it’s happened before, but there was at least another nurse. I have also been assigned to be charge nurse a few times with absolutely no training except from what I had observed while working - mind you I was still new to the psych unit learning my regular responsibilities as a floor nurse.