2.0
May 9, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook
Pros
-12 hour shift means 4 days off per week. -Less acuity than medical- surgical nursing. (Though plenty of patients go critical requiring emergent care.)
Cons
-12 hours shifts can be brutal. -Workload is unmanageable and at times unsafe. -No time for bathroom or 15 min breaks. -Expect to stand for most of 12 hour shift. -Frequent policy / procedural changes that are neither well communicated nor clear. -CNA staff has some good members but many unqualified. -CNA staff doesn't acknowledge that they work under RN's license. -Though they try, culture is not a team environment. -Frequent procedural changes that are impractical, time consuming, not thought out, and implemented with no RN input.