Pros
- The organization tries its best to be safe/I am not scared about doing something that will cost me my license - Transport RNs…SO HELPFUL - SWAT RNs/Rapid response team are great resources
Cons
- You can tell it is a business first and foremost, so a lot is put on the nurses and there is a lot of talk about throughout as this seems to be the most important thing to management - I feel it is lacking leadership; there is good management (fair, responsive, etc) but no one there is leading, i.e. truly caring about morale, inspiring us, knowing their people and what motivates them, being intentional about team building…in performance reviews, it is just a list of your stats and a general review of department goals. You really feel you are just a number and it is highly depersonalized. I think the lack of leadership leads to a strong sense of burnout at my hospital. - No extra pay for floating, but consistently floated to numerous floors and not given any orientation to the floor or description of when rounds will be or what expectations are - Less and less orientation time for new grads = huge strain once they are on their own as their coworker/not fair to patients since things are missed. New grads look overwhelmed consistently. - INITIATIVES: Banner loves their initiatives. I think we went through over 5 different ways for patients to order their meals in one year…Banner never tests anything out to see the impact on the nurses or whether we agree that it will be helpful. I learned to just roll with it and also anticipate the new process will be gone soon. It seems like all the managers do is forward emails about a new way they want us to do xyz and then it ends up being clumsy or taking too much time or not really working so people don’t do it and it disappears without much fanfare
