Clinical Nurse II - Clinical Nurse II Duke Health Employee Review

2.0
27 Jan 2016
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Pros

The "brand" name is great, it really helps when job searching as everyone knows who Duke is. The level of acuity of patients is very high and therefore you learn a lot.

Cons

Bullying is absolutely tolerated, it is shameful but nobody cares. The pay for nurses is deplorable, especially since Duke Hospital's President is a nurse. The hospital is cheap, and instead of cutting corners somewhere where it makes sense (such as overpaid hospital administrators), they cut nurses' hours. The nurse assignments are often very unsafe as the hospital forces nurses to take on more and more patients of higher acuity just to save a few bucks by not bringing more nurses in to work and/or sending some home when it is unnecessary and unsafe.

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5.0
20 Mar 2026
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Pros

Great working environment and supportive staff

Cons

Nothing I can think of at this time

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3.0
1 Jun 2026
Recommend
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Pros

It's a pretty good starting point if you are wanting to get your foot in the door working on the administrative side of healthcare. Engaging with patients can be very rewarding and if you enjoy customer service (especially hospitality or food service) this can be a great role that feels similar to interacting with patrons, but you don't have to work weekends, there's very good benefits, and you don't have to work 12 hours a day.

Cons

There are a lot of issues both with Duke Hospital and the Eye Center itself. Duke University Hospital is on the college campus so you will have to pay for parking. You aren't paid well, even with the $20 minimum wage increase, it's still only about $40,000/year but with having to pay for parking... even the cheapest garage at $95 a month, that's $1,140 a year gone from your check. There is no "free" parking even close to the hospital, so they really screw you there. The Eye Center has struggled with processes in the clinic and management is run ragged. There are too many employees that don't care much for the job they are doing and Duke makes it incredibly difficult to hold those employees accountable and for management to make proper layoffs.

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