Great coworkers, not-so-great benefits
Pros
The majority of people who work here are awesome people. They are friendly and their main priority is to provide excellent patient care. It is awesome to walk down the hall and be greeted with a smile and a wave from basically anyone who works in the hospital.
Cons
The pay for a RN is significantly lower than other hospitals. I am talking $7 per hr lower. There is also no such thing as a raise. Even with your "annual review" you do not receive a raise. The only time you might get a raise is with a cost of living raise. Which you may or may not receive one year. They do have a "clinical ladder" program where you can join tons of committees, participate in hospital events, train employees, and construct education programs. Then you have to write an essay about all of these things and fill out a chart to submit to a committee to "apply" to prove you deserve an extra dollar per hour. LOL. In additions, like most of healthcare within the US, we are always short-staffed. No surprise there. People will leave positions and management just decides to not refill this positions, leaving us even more short-staffed than baseline. Then when a pandemic hits, they are overworking nurses even more than usual while not providing any additional pay, benefits, or hazard pay. They have the RNs doing the role of respiratory therapist, RN, phlebotomist, speech and hearing, and CNA. All to reduce other people's exposure. RNs are the sacrificial lamb and we get paid poorly. The nurses stay because we care about the patients and we would never abandon them, especially at a time like this. Unfortunately, we are taken advantage of all year, but it is worse at a time like this.
