The pay is mediocre, the benefits are expensive and less than average. Pay is not high enough to draw talented people to the system to broaden the intelligence and experience of management. No matter what anyone says, these are not teaching hospital. Go to southern California, Nashville, New Your City, Newark, Boston, Baltimore, Cleveland, even Omaha to find a true teaching hospital. Because it's not here in Phoenix.
Nurses are treated poorly, management doesn't seem to care about their staff as people. They only see us as cogs in the wheel. And if something is not perfect, then that person is out on their buttocks faster than you can blink. Also there is almost no nursing education offerings that provide CEUs offered by live people. No conferences, no classes, no instruction for an hour on treatments that can benefit the nurse and the patient. All continuing education is to be done on Nurse.com. Sure Banner pays for it. But they all require just reading very easy, uninformative CEU's. When I did mine, I just answered the questions. or watched the video (or Fast forwarded it to the end)
I didn't need to read the article. They are too basic. There is no consideration to providing real seminars or such for actual learning. I admit, twice this past year there a class each for nurses, and others, that did not offer CEU's and were offered at distant facilities during times when most nurses would not be able to attend or arrive on time. And they are not presented by leaders in the field, but by some person working on her Master's in Nursing, or a staff nurse. As well, there is no sponsorship provided by Baner for outside experts to come and present CEU classes. No days are provided as education days. One must take vacation days to attend one. And the time off is so lacking, that you might never want to try to keep up your nursing skills, just so you can get a day off!
No one at the hospitals or corporate offices are interested in providing quality learning experiences for anyone.
Banner is a lousy place to work unless all you want is a paycheck. And even then, you had better not want one that provides for any quality standard of living! The pitiful raises each year, if they offer them, don't even cover the cost of benefits increase or the cost of living increases. The upper management cares about no one but themselves.
Being a "right to work" state is an absolute determent to the nurses in this city and state. One is taken advantage by Banner, never properly thanked for your hard work. And then they look for something on ti hystuft firing you. You have no rights.
Banner is far more disgruntled staff than it knows. But they don't talk to the staff. They use on-line surveys that employees are to complete after being told what to say by their managers. And then, their egos are so big, when they don't get the great scores they think they deserve, they chastise the staff.
Don't work there, if only to get by to getting a better job. It's a major corporation that still acts like a po-dunk good ole boys club. Save yourself the pain.
