Beware: The Clinic tells you that it's mandatory to work two years on a unit before you transfer to any other floor within the entire CCF hospital system. If you don't, you're blacklisted. Really consider all your options before you take a job here because once you do, you're stuck.
Pay: Insultingly low. No merit increase this past year, although we did get a $500 (pre-tax) bonus recently.
Charge nurse: On many floors, the charge nurse is forced to take on all the charge duties -- AND a full patient assignment -- for NO extra pay.
Floating: All RNs at main campus are required to float to any unit in the hospital, regardless of specialty or staffing needs on YOUR unit. This goes for highly experienced RNs as well as nurses fresh off orientation. Expect to float to neurology step-down, oncology, med-surg, ortho, women's health, leukemia, bone marrow transplant, GI, pulmonary, Covid units, bariatric, and whatever other unit can't keep staff. Last year they were requiring us to float to different regional hospitals entirely.
Understaffing: Getting worse and worse due to massive staff turnover and a constant churn-and-burn of new grads. Always short-staffed, and if they aren't already short-staffed at the start of the shift, they will float nurses to other units that "need them more." Cuts in staff mean nurses are assigned the responsibility to draw all patients' labs (Phlebotomy rarely shows up anymore), do all EKGs, etc. They don't even notify us they're short anymore, they just...don't show up.
Burnout: Everyone is burned out. Nurses, aides, management, everyone. Management does not address the widespread dissatisfaction or acknowledge how difficult, unsafe and frustrating the floating has been.
