Veritas Collaborative Reviews

* High turnover for good reason. * Cannot maintain nursing management to save their life. *Across the board, every employee hates their job here. * Reverse racism is a huge problem and management refuses to acknowledge it. When it's been brought up, management lets you know it’s ‘out of their hands' and states that we 'all just need to get along.' *You will get fired for speaking out or voicing concerns. *It's a well known fact that we do not have the supplies, support, staff, processes or training necessary to care for these patients but management refuses to slow down on admitting new kids. *1:13 nurse to patient ratio on a good day.. With patients sleeping on different units and programming on yours, it can be more like 1:17. Within the first hour of your shift you will be responsible for drawing and running the patients blood, obtaining weights, administering medication, performing blood sugar checks, skin checks and assessments for, again, up to 13 patients. *Nurses are expected to provide meal support but the food is under or overcooked, saturated in grease or salt and usually served cold. The staff you would think would be eating with the kids (dietitians and therapist) sit in the employee break room and enjoy an hour or longer lunch break during this time. *The medication is kept in a large tool box from a hardware store on each unit. (yeah, I'm not kidding.) *The charting system was not designed for hospitals so it doesn't alert you when things are due or overdue. *You are expected to provide meal support and then immediately return to your unit to administer tube feeds for anywhere 1 to 5 patients. *Usually, it's one nurse per unit and sometimes you'll be assigned a medical assistant. Some MA's are wonderful, but most will completely ignore you when you speak to them and will disappear to another unit with their buddies directly after doing the least amount of work possible. You won't see them for the rest of the day. *We've had patient's spit in staff members faces, on their food or threaten them. Management does nothing. *When patient's are having breakdowns and cutting themselves- their treatment team is no where to be found and other team members will refuse to help since it's 'not their patient.' *Huge pay discrepancy between male nurses and female nurses. *As a nurse, we all discuss the fact that our license are on the line every time we come into work. We are asked to maintain completely unsafe patient/nurse ratios, asked to do things outside of our scope of practice and turn a blind eye to obvious unethical and sometimes, illegal, practices.

Training During the training process, one of the first red flags was how a specific supervisor would give personal feedback in front of other patients or talk negatively with patients about how some TAs work. Often times in a very demeaning manner which caused certain patients to think you were incapable of providing care. Culture TAs are often overworked and overlooked for their work. The company often times treats staff in this position as if they’re “disposable” and easily replaced. Most TA’s feel the position is very thankless by patients and those higher up in the company. Work often times short staffed on all day and night shifts. This position requires crisis intervention work which makes being understaffed more difficult and mentally taxing for TAs. This can also be dangerous given sometimes acuity is very high and appropriate pt supervision can’t be given if TAs are being stretched in too many directions. The biggest problem most TAs have is the food. Veritas employs really talented chefs/cooks. However many TAs have sacrificed their health eating food meant to support patients “weight restoration” or in other words “gain weight, “ which means health problems for those who are already of a healthy weight range. There’s been times where I’ve personally become sick on the job due to eating so much or because of what we are eating. Many times having to take medication to keep the food down and having to sacrifice my personal health in order to do what Veritas calls “supporting patients.” Meanwhile, staff get more sick/unhealthy. These concerns have been taken to managers countless times since I’ve worked here and are repeatedly shrugged off by them. There are supervisors here who care about your actual wellbeing and longevity in the company (who are also overlooked and under-appreciated) and others who are just power hungry and eager to climb the ladder at all costs. Be careful who you trust. Overall, I would say beware this position or plan to be here as TEMPORARY as possible. Other roles are much more valued in the company but unfortunately TAs here have a high turnover because in the end it’s not worth it to put your health at risk for a “job.”