High turnover - Nurse Sutter Health Employee Review

2.0
Dec 12, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

-Beautiful building/facility -Indoor gardens for patients -Breathtaking views on upper levels -Good location right off the freeway -High RN autonomy -Computer in every patient room -They have Epic

Cons

-Pay/benefits not competitive with other hospitals. Sutter will only match up to $200/year to your 401b -No 12 hr shifts but will ask you to work 16 hrs when they're short. It makes it even worse that they hire many travelers who work 12s alongside permanent staff -It's on the RN to empty the trash/linens/sharps bins from patient rooms multiple times a shift in addition to cleaning out and restocking the rooms when patients are transferred out (why is this on the nurse when there's patient care to be done?) -No nursing assistants in the ICU so RNs serve as environmental services, unit coordinators, and nursing assistants all rolled into one. -Have to keep going to other floors to borrow equipment -Navigating when/how/who to call when you need an MD or an order is a nightmare -Break nurses don't just watch your patients. They are burdened with many other tasks and takes away from what little support there is. There is no stand-alone rapid response team so when there's a code/RRT in the hospital, they are called off the floor to respond. -MDs are too reliant on nurses to put in their orders

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Pros

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Cons

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3.0
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Pros

Leadership trainings, conferences, educational opportunities, Senior leadership seems to respond to employee feedback, Great organizational transparency and clarity around goals and direction, Front-line leadership receiving recognition more often, Fair (not amazing) compensation and benefits overall, Organization seems to be healthy and growing which is encouraging for job security and retention.

Cons

Unsustainable front-line leadership expectations, responsibilities, and tasks without providing support from supervisors or assistant managers specifically in San Francisco campuses, High burnout risk among front-line leaders which is continuing to increase, Growing list of contradicting or conflicting priorities. Patient experience scores have improved greatly in SF but patient quality/safety and employee satisfaction has become the apparent cost of that, Very unreasonable span of control for front-line leaders, i.e. way too many direct reports, Meeting metrics and KPIs at all costs is the message being received. Front-line leaders are left scrambling to reach the data points (regardless of the methods), to get there. In other words, we might be meeting the metrics and KPIs on paper, but that doesn’t necessarily mean the real purpose or reason behind those metrics is being performed. We’re just desperate to keep our jobs, The leadership culture in the last 6-9 months has shifted towards motivation through fear. Fear of losing our jobs or bonuses rather than motivation by providing actual daily support in doing our jobs and genuine concern and encouragement to succeed.

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