Very clearly, staff satisfaction is not important to this company. It's all about budget, filling beds, medical treatment as fast as possible, sacrificing caregiver sanity, patient turnover, and redirecting budget deficit problems created by poor management and supervisor decisions, and instead, placing blame towards staff for accruing overtime because of attempting to meet constantly increasing unrealistic expectations. Declaring 'not for profit' is a joke.
The constant need for travelers ought to say it all. Morale is in the basement. The hospital continually tries to do more with less, and complicated by union and contract verbiage, quality control in staffing expectations and/or accountability suffers tremendously. Patient centered care is not always in the forefront of caregiver prerogatives.
Leadership responsible for steering policy and making business decisions are clearly not in touch with the reality of the unit(s), nor do they look for input or accurate feedback to the real struggles.
LCC and PeaceHealth seem to almost have a marriage where associate degree students/grads are taught by LCC alum, creating a very in-bred, bad habit driven and unhealthy micro-climate of nursing. Permanent employee recruitment is very narrow minded, and outside influence or perspectives seems to be frowned upon.
