Regions Hospital Reviews

- Despite having "mental health" in the job title, this job entails NO mental health work at all. Even though we are exposed to numerous disorders, we do not get to interact with them psychologically. Worked for a year now, and I haven't utilized anything from college, nor have I learned anything new in terms of psychopathology. This job focuses more on the nursing/physical care-giving role and none on mental health. - Going off from the first point, the daily duties basically required as an MHA: take vital signs, serve food, take glucose readings, do housekeeping work (cleaning, making beds, doing laundry, taking out trash, etc), bathroom assistance, and checking in patient's belongings... no mental health duties whatsoever. A bachelor's degree should not be required in order to perform such basic and mundane tasks. - Odd hours and required bi-weekends, which is not worth the small pay that is given. - Depending on which floor you will be placed on, majority of the co-workers are nurses, which a handful can be conceited and demanding. There is a sense of social rankings with MHA's being the subordinate.

The in-patient pharmacy is extremely understaffed, which means they expect you to work mandatory overtime. You never come into a shift knowing if you will be mandated or not. Poor supervisory staff, can’t fill positions and don’t appreciate the staff the do have. I have walked past my supervisor in the hallway 4 times in the last two weeks with ZERO acknowledgment, let alone a smile and nod. Little to no training in my department. At a good thing I was knowledgeable about pharmacy before I started working here because they didn’t even have a training schedule for me for my first two weeks. And they didn’t have enough staff to train me even if they would have had a training schedule ready. I was pretty much just thrown in on my first day of work. After all expenses such as parking fees and union fees are taken out of my pay check, I net less per pay period than I was expecting, these fees were not mentioned to me either. I was told negotiating was not allowed.