Vantaggi
Many of my coworkers - the other nurses I work with - are some of the most compassionate, hardworking individuals I know. The pay is reasonable but my salary is $20k/year less than the best-paying hospital in town. The contract has a seniority-based hiring policy, which is a double-edged sword. It means that they have to hire the person with the most in-hospital seniority for a position that they’re hiring for (for example, a fellowship in the ED or ICU or Maternity), which means that if you know you want to work in a department that it’s hard to get your foot in the door to, if you do your time in a medsurg unit here, you can be confident you will eventually be able to get into the unit of your choice.
Svantaggi
The company doesn’t care about their employees. Management - even from the nurse manager level - is seemingly pressured by the higher-ups to keep budgets as tight as possible, leading to widespread employee dissatisfaction, safety concerns, staffing concerns. There are always equipment problems: computers freezing up in the middle of a medical emergency, scanners breaking, beds broken or not working properly. The higher-ups are indifferent to or dismissive of concerns brought to them by nursing staff. Everyone I know who has left Providence is so happy to have “gotten out.”