St. Joe's Reviews

Nursing is short staffed, especially nursing support staff. Staffing ratios are still better than many places in the country. 1:4 on days in PCU and Medsurg. 1:5 on nights. Unless you are in stroke unit, 1:7 at night, I last heard.

For the past 5 years we have not received raises and the one raise we did get was around 35 cents. They spend money on wasteful products such as our new "hourly rounding" sheets that I have personally witnessed being tossed in the trash by the hundreds. The decision makers for this hospital make all of these changes but never once talk to an employee to get any knowledge that would actually benefit our job in any way. There is no job security at this hospital in any way, any employee could be let go at any time and there is nothing they could do about it. On average most nurses have 6 patients when they arrive and I have seen it go up to 7 on more than one occasion. That many patients causes a lot of stress on staff and is very unsafe from a nursing stand point.