Pros
- more lax environment- no need to pretend to keep busy with meaningless tasks during downtime - excellent doctors - a few excellent nurses, some more mediocre but quality enough - user friendly software - honest about referrals; doctors will not admit a case/refer to specialty hospital or case is too critical / if unable to allot equivalent level of patient care
Cons
- treats clients as “customers”. An awful mindset especially in a post covid world. medicine does comes before reviews - messy messy messy onboarding & management. I had to harass them to give me a start date and proper access to necessary accounts such as an email login, clock in/out account, etc. - inventory was consistently lacking in necessary materials that varied week by week- some days no fluid bags except liter sized, some weeks no insulin syringes. Assistants would be reprimanded for not stocking meanwhile we didn’t even have said materials. - no real training or structure. I came with experience, but consistently noticed green assistants struggling with basic restraint, procedure set up, etc. - lax environment led to workload disparities. Some nurses would want to do bare minimum / just nurse work and have assistants do everything else like cleaning/meds/ discharge. Green assistants would see lax environment and not keep up with basic tasks like keeping laundry going, stocking etc. bc there was no real training - inconsistent staffing. lots of travel techs in & out so no opportunity for real team buildings / building a rapport, on top of regular veterinary turnover