Pros
There are a lot of educational opportunities, and you'll get good experience with time management. The healthcare benefits are really incredible (as long as you see ONLY Cleveland Clinic providers) and prescription costs are low. The point system for call-outs is fair (1 point for calling off before 4, 5 points allotted in a rolling year, with 1 permitted instance where you can call off three shifts in a row and it only counts as one point -- but you have to know you're doing it in advance, and tell them as you call in on the first shift). The name and prestige looks good on a resume.
Cons
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.
