Vantaggi
It is a job. The patients are diverse and I love them! It was a good starting off point in my career when it was Clarian.
Svantaggi
Not competitive pay at all. The upper management and mid level managers have lost touch with the bedside and their policies reflect such. They recently laid off several hundred employees leaving floors short staffed and nurse-patient ratios often times unsafe to manage. Advancement is not an option unless you are groomed by a person in mgmt. It is a growing trend that they will look to their "friend" staff nurses to advance even before practicing as a nurse a year however they overlook some nurses that have been practicing for years and are a great resource for newer nurses on the unit. Managers do not "get their hands dirty". If we are swamped and short they can not be found...They have no trouble however pointing out that the "hourly rounding sheet is not initialed" I believe this company may be a sinking ship. They developed more and more and bought up other hospitals..But they did not focus on their core or their employees. We went into this field to nurse and yet there seems to be a pull to leave the bedside and more younger nurses are encouraged to "manage" or do "charge" before they are even equipped with the skills to do so which leads to many of the workers feelings unappreciated and overworked by staffing set from a "green" newer nurse that sees a budget tool and not the real picture. Assignments are not equal and fair. (I have been on several units and it is that way on all of the floors) There are not a lot of units besides OTU that value their nurses and have rich work relationships between their staff and physicians.