Pros
Great benefits, amazing pay for RNs, supportive work environment in outpatient. I enjoy the mission and feel as though we are well taken care of as employees. This is definitely the best pediatric hospital system in North Texas and consistently has high patient- and employee-satisfaction scores as well as many highly ranked programs.
Cons
Was very disillusioned by perioperative leadership in the Dallas location and continue to hear not-so-great things from colleagues still in that department. The universally disliked director was promoted to senior director, thus giving them more power and causing a huge level of dissatisfaction among clinical staff and lower-level leadership. There is quite the shake-up coming and periop staff are concerned about their job security. Despite this, I have found that I enjoy most other aspects of working for Children's. Periop itself was a wonderful department and would have been infinitely better if not for the senior leadership. My current role has taken me to another location and department and I am very happy with senior leadership in this department so far. Also, inpatient nursing is just plain hard. I would love for better staffing on the floors and know that leadership is working on it actively.