Pros
Fast pace work Face to face interaction with patient care Some psych experience
Cons
Promised opportunity but that's a pretty lie. Expect burn out physically and mentally, overworked and under paid. More is asked of you to preform constantly that isn't in your contact you sign. If you are a hard worker you are expected pick up the slack from everyone else. Consistent poor employee moral. No praise of recognition. High Nepotism. Extremely catty employee environment, hurtful and harmful bullying. If you talk to management about sexual harassment or workplace bullying you become the target of being put down/bullied into quitting or fired for anything so they can make appear unrelated to the sexual harassment/workplace harassment. Gaslight constantly and made to believe you are the problem. Certain employees are "untouchable" and can do no wrong even if their negligence results in a patient seriously harming themselves or fraudulent documenting but other employees will be written/fired up for the smallest thing. Senior management have nursing licenses but don't expect them to lift a finger when you need help - they will instruct you to call the house supervisor EVEN IF the supervisor is already attempting to put out 10 different fires already. Supervisor is used and constantly heavily blamed/put down for everything that happens. Unsafe staffing ratios and unjust justification by management. Take a break or be fired, even if taking a break leaves your unit in a more unsafe situation. Wanting to keep your patients on the unit safe isn't a good enough reason to not take a break. Trainers are told new hires are not be treated like regular employees while still in training/shadow-shifting because they are not supposed to be left alone but due to unsafe staffing ratios they are treated like 'body' on the floor causing the trainer assigned a higher work load and no extra breathing room resulting in the new hire to be not properly trained. Promote you without pay increase but higher work load then dissolve that position without warning when they don't need you anymore. One senior management is intimidating and has aggressive behaviors towards individuals with undesirable traits, such as size, appearance, or disability issues. No loyalty to senior employees. Your raises are based on everyone's performance in that department. They "cherry pick" the patients that come into the hospital so they do not have the deal with the harder cases and keep their reviews higher. The patient advocate is used as an scapegoat for senior management and even when they bring the concerns of patients to senior management nothing is done. Senior management and corporate do not care about the patients. They do not care about mental health especially not the patients or employees.