-Good teamwork and culture
-Tuition reimbursement
-Usually would get my schedule requests
-Magnet and innovation
-Room for leadership growth
-Great facility
-Good patient care
Cons
-Low pay with little raises despite saying it is merit based and comparable to market analysis
-It is expected to do more work (join committees etc) without guarantee of raise
-Time off including sick pay comes from your PTO bank
-Understaffed. You get emails every day for staffing needs
-Assigned holiday shifts are 2 consecutive days instead of just the holiday day
-Shifts are 4 hour increments and you would see nurses getting floated mid shift leaving you understaffed again
-Unprotected breaks. Up to the nurse and their workload to be able to decide to break themselves but still answer their calls and call lights during break bc no one else is going to
The culture of the surgical teams was toxic - basically you have to “prove” yourself to even be acknowledged. Otherwise, if they know you’re new… good luck because you’re going to get yelled at and treated in a demeaning way
The staff has become very jaded to the mistreatments of people in the OR & overall everyone seems miserable coming to work
Good luck trying to find the manager because her presence is almost non-existent unless joint commission is roaming around
Management only cares about having a body accounted for in the room. Even if you weren’t properly trained during orientation on how to do certain surgeries, they’ll throw you in anyway- it’s so dangerous.
The on call requirements sucked & if you’re scheduled to be on call during the weekends… guess what: you’ll most likely get called in (news flash: the cases are 95% likely not to be actual emergent cases)
Great staff, high intensity sometimes but that's the price of working in a hospital. Great employer support also as long as communication is part of the ordeal.
Cons
The pay can be a bit better for patient care technicians in general, but Rush University being the statue of medicine for the entirety of Illinois, I think the initial pay should be more competitive.