Pros
Pay, benefits, opportunity to learn at larger Eugene/Springfield lab
Cons
Cottage grove us a tiny critical access in an cute town with a high level if racism and abuse. Lab is owned by Quest and has Quest MANAGERS but you are employed and paid by PH. You will be doing phlebotomy 30% of your night/variable shifts. You will be ‘mobbed’/bullied by incompetent (but long term/protected staff) RNs who expect you to drop everything in the lab in an instant because they literally can’t walk 25’ through 2 doors to you. They will ask you to drop everything to label tubes for them. The house supervisor us the worst and will act like she doesn’t know what tests or labels go on which tubes (the labels have color of tube listed.) They will ask you to cross infection control barriers you aren’t supposed to cross. They will offer to help you when a analyzer is down then you fir report abnormal procedure in their rounds. Some major analyzer is ALWAYS DOWN here because Quest too cheap to get good equipment in thus tiny place and service won’t show up for DAYS because again Quest is cheap.) Lab manager completely ineffective (Quest vs PH RN staff..) and despite promises to have your back most definitely will not. You will see phlebotomists verbally assaulted by patients with little to recourse. You will be hazed by known bullied in lab as well and hear sexist ableist racist “jokes” no matter your background or gender. The reporting system dies nothing if you use it. PeaceHealth in the Willamette valley is a sinking ship full of rats eating each other trying to stay alive or leapfrog to a better situation. Just run from this place (and NEVER allow or send your family here!)