WOR CST - Recensione dipendente - Certified Surgical Technologist (CST) presso Mission Health

Full time hours, possible Overtime, I am on a great team, and the people there are really supportive and friendly . They welcomed the new comer with open arms and never once felt like a burden. I

Short staffed, Not as consistent with some of the processes but they are working on it

They do promote good diversity Student loan forgiveness 100$ a month (hard to figure out how to actually apply though) Tuition assistance (~5k a year, online BSN free with Galen if you can stomach 2 years in return with them) PTO (~6 hr paycheck for new grad) Easy to get in, They will hire just about anyone Cafeteria food is good, plenty options and subway stays open to 2am Breathtaking Mountain View’s during lunch break—-if you can actually get one! Some sign on bonus are upwards to 50k (this is a trap!!!! you will owe them 2 years of absolute trenches of nursing and there will be days you question your entire career , risk your license repeatedly and question your worth for this money)

FOR PROFIT COMPANY…. They do not put patient safety as priority compared to their profits. Their CEO and top management get over paid regardless of patient safety, staffing or any concerns that nursing staff provide. 5 violations in 2 years that put hospital in immediate jeopardy of being shut down by state. They “fix” the things state cite & then continue to go about awful working conditions and UNSAFE staffing levels that actually lead to the citations. They give nurses more and more and more work to do, charting, tasks to try to improve the quality outcomes but repeatedly refuse to see it’s the staffing problems that are directly tied to the decreased quality outcomes. Patients are truly suffering here. I’ve seen arrogant (usually surgeons) doctors almost kill patients, many once healthy patients or cause them to have life altering conditions as a consequence to the unsafe care they give ( i.e kicking bladders during surgeries, septic level infections bc they couldn’t bother to look at THEIR surgical sites before discharging patients the nurses don’t agree should be DC. Refusing to trust nurses who notice decline in patients, I.e request safety interventions like CTA for PE when d dimer elevated +chest pain SOB and then the oncoming surgeon writing the patient off as dramatic canceling orders. She went to surgery and I worry this patient won’t make it, he had no idea the severity of her history and how close to death she has been. I saw how hard I had to work to manage her when she should of been on step down with PCA not on our floor. The unsafe ratios are ridiculous. The person in charge of bed placement isn’t even nursing affiliated so many patients we get on a ridiculous unsafe ratio( 6-7 to 1 nurse!!!, floor not mentioned for fear of retaliation) should not be on the unit, they should be step down, cardiac, ICU and sometimes opposite like quick stay units. They don’t utilize a safe non fly zone during shift change, meaning patients who could be unstable with no warning just appear and get dumped on your unit by the ED who isn’t required to even give report! They will give you discharges and admissions with 7 patients in the first hour of work shift making the entire shift hell and impossible to safely give all meds, chart to the ridiculous expectation and dream of getting out on time. You will leave 805-915 on these days for a 7-7 shift.