Pros
-Some ability to choose hours
-On-site cafeteria with super cheap food. Grounds are nice and peaceful for breaks.
-Paid Training, no previous experience necessary, always hiring
-Effort is rewarded to a degree
-Lots of overtime potential
-Can be purposeful work and rewarding if you spend that effort
Cons
-Can be very high stress dealing with aggressive and high-risk patients, wouldn't recommend for over-anxious people. Creates high turnover in the position.
-Need outside schooling or training for any real upward momentum, though they will help compensate for education if you choose to do so.
-Pay has since been decreased slightly from COVID. Benefit package is nothing special, and PTO is accumulated slowly.
-Getting shifts off or missing shifts can create a lot of difficulty and can have serious repercussions, though the reasoning is understandable as it is a hospital.
-Change in procedure or systems is slow due to government bureaucracy in any large decision making, which can make tough situations on a unit or with a patient take a lot longer to resolve.
-Quality of work varies largely unit to unit, and bad management is visible at all layers.