Pros
The doctors and the nurses work hard and there is a lot of a Tonna me and trust that’s built between nurses and physicians
Cons
If you’re not a robot and you want to integrate holistic care into your ICU nursing career it’s ridiculed and frowned upon by many of your coworkers and management. Both middle and the upper management continuously changes. The politics is Ridiculous. Spent many dedicated years providing excellent more than satisfactory above unit standard care As reflected in my evaluations. Yet the glass ceiling felt like it was smashing me down. Regardless of my passion and dedication and continuing education efforts in order to improve my nursing practice I felt there was no growth. And there were a lot of close minded employees who were very clicky and often alienated particular people for whatever reason there’s a lot of bullying that happens and management does nothing about it. Getting compliments from families and patients did nothing to improve my status on the unit even though I put many many dedicated passionate hard-working days and years there and interestingly enough everywhere else that I went in the hospital people would continuously asked me if I would just come to them and because I felt so passionately about what I did I wanted to stick it out and see it be the best thing you could because I’ve seen it there and then I It Lost majority of their upper more experienced staff nurses which change the complete environment that work there too Manny and experience nurses in a high acuity intensive care unit that were given roles that they weren’t ready to take on and it caused a lot of under the table safety issues that seem to get overlooked because of particular favoritism for whatever reason they definitely do not value their nurses. They did not renew their magnet status because of nursing satisfaction and it’s even worse on the floors when there’s a 6 to 1 Ratio Way too much for any person to safely manage yet instead of hiring new nurses and more staff they continue to expand and not pay nearly enough for the price of living in this area. In my research of pay between Northern Virginia and southern Virginia there is a minimal increase and the cost-of-living is almost triple what it is in the southern part portions of Virginia and it’s a state of the art hospital there’s money somewhere in I guess the Exxon station that they bought Adjacent to the hospital to continue to expand and then understaffed and underpaid
