Staff RN - Anonymous employee Sentara Health Employee Review

5.0
Aug 6, 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Patient Care and experience were worth the long hours

Cons

over-worked due to low staff

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Sentara Health Response
9y
Patient care certainly is Sentara's primary focus. Working in direct patient care, in a patient facing position, does often require longer hours than if you worked in a different field or healthcare role. Sentara, like others within the healthcare industry, is dealing with a national shortage of many healthcare staff as we actively recruit to fill vacant positions. The fact that the national unemployment rate is the lowest it have been in many years is also impacting us as well. We do, however, have some great incentives in place and much to offer a potential new employee from a total comp and career opportunity perspective. Sentara is doing all that it can to find the best caregivers out there to join our team. We hope that you may consider rejoining the Sentara family in the future.

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Pros

flexible schedule and work from home

Cons

stressful accuracy and productivity standards

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Sentara Health Response
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2.0
Jul 8, 2026
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Pros

The team I was on was small but it had good people. My direct manager and her boss were great, but everyone above them were horribly disorganized and incompetent. More on that under cons. Pay was fine, slightly above the average. But raises were inconsistent. The ability to work from home was great. It was rare to be asked to work overtime, so work life balance was good.

Cons

Disorganized upper management who thought they knew better than the folks working in the weeds every day. There were multiple times that they would implement a change that my team would strongly recommend against, but it was shoehorned in anyway. Months later they would come back and say “that was actually a bad idea” and we would have to fix their mistakes, despite warning them against it in the beginning. How well you get trained also depends on your department. My team worked with other teams at Sentara that were often attempting to do things that could have put the company in legal jeopardy, but they were never told not to do it.

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Sentara Health Response
1w
Thank you for sharing your perspective. We’re sorry to hear that your experience with leadership at Sentara Health didn’t meet your expectations. Effective leadership is something we take very seriously, and your feedback is valuable as we continue to evaluate and improve our management practices. We encourage open communication and welcome further insights if you’d like to discuss your concerns in more detail. Please feel free to reach out to hrsolutions@sentara.com.
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