Pros
Generous PTO- When you can use it. Decent 401K. Some opportunity for paid education.
Cons
Mixed bag of management. Some are great and others are allowed to verbally abuse and/or physically intimidate staff. Literally shouting, getting in employee's faces, slamming doors and other outrageous behavior that can span years. A manager getting fired is rare and is usually only done when there is fear of a lawsuit such as in the case of sexual harassment. Even that kind of harassment is allowed to occur for FAR too long. Complaints are ignored, detailing abuses in reviews do not get passed on to the manager being reviewed, even when multiple people in a department are brave enough to come forward after walking on eggshells for years. Instead they will work with the insane manager to "fix" the problem by having extremely uncomfortable team building where no one is willing to be honest now because they already tried that, no real action was taken, and they are afraid of retaliation. We went ABOVE our manager because we were afraid, what part of that makes you think that team building is a good idea? Yearly press Ganey surveys for the employees are tailored in such a way to avoid negative reviews for the organization. In particular questions about compensation are now being left off. A 30 year employee often makes less or equal to a new hire thanks to "merit" increases barely covering COL increases. Merit raise? LMAO. Frequent turnover is tolerated for the sake of keeping wages low, expert employees are allowed to leave in exchange for any warm body with a license. Outpatient RN's are not given the same union opportunities as inpatient, even when there is very specialized skill and credentialing. MANY departments will not allow you to use your PTO. Many that do will force you to tailor it to a time when the physicians are using theirs. You can cash out the PTO but then you are only getting half the benefit- P and no TO. Speaking of physicians, there are some great ones and some not so much. They are pretty much allowed to do anything until the behavior is so flagrant it can no longer be ignored. Holy moley the stories I have. They get an INSANE bonus every year thanks to the for-profit arm of Confluence, WVMG. I'm talking 5 digit bonuses. Near what a lot of hardworking employees make in a year. Shameful. They also have NO management, I'm not even kidding here. Their structure is a hierarchy of physician leaders. It's more like a mentorship structure. That's how you can get absolute loose cannons operating for years. Physicians get extra money for numbers of visits, you can imaging where I'm going with this. How safe is it to incentivize how many patients are seen in a day? Is 30-40 patients per day safe? Anyhow, I left. It's better to work someplace that doesn't put on a façade of being employee-centric. At least it's honest. To those of you who remain, SPEAK UP.
