Pros
**Just this year 2020, JMH has finally started giving employees their breaks (after losing to a lawsuit). For every 4 hours you work, you get 15 mins break. Every department may do it differently, but you are offer your breaks. For example, in L&D, we now have a break nurse. There is a break log where break nurse keeps track of break times. This has made a huge different and I love my breaks. If you are not offered a break, JMH will pay you an hour for it, but if you end up missing more than 1 break, you only get paid one hour even if it means you missed all your 15 mins for your 12 hour shift. For postpartum, they have times where you sign up when you want to go on your breaks... and that means even taking at your breaks at 8am or even going to lunch as early as 10am! (I hope this has changed)
** Holiday rotation schedule; you're put into groups and each group gets rotated to work different holidays each year so you don't end up working the same holiday each year.
** Before tax bonus of about $1000 each year if you're RNC.
** On call/request for cancel is base on hours; not base on who requested first.
** You have a baby nurse to do vitals, measurements and to give medications.
** You have in house MD on the floor, anesthesia designed for labor&delivery, in house ped, on call neonatologist and perinatologist.
** There are many different shifts you can work. 12 hrs or 8 hrs all starting at various times. 7a-7p, 7a-3p, 11a-7p, 11a-11p, 3p-11p, 7p-7a, 11p-7a
Cons
** Vacation requests for day shift is difficult to be approved. Only a small number of people can be off the schedule. Schedule varies; no track schedule, or block schedule.
** Supplies & linen often runs out; I don't know who stocks L&D but I dislike working when you don't have supplies in your room or PACU or even when the entire hospital is out of pillow cases! How are you suppose to do your job? Or when there is absolutely no more small scrub pants to put on?!
** low staff; always hiring. As magnet status as we are, I feel like our turnover rate is high. Be prepare to work hard, no one is watching your patient; everyone watches their own. If you have a decel, you often don't have anyone coming in to help you - at least on day shift. You set up your own delivery tables, and you clean everything up yourself after each delivery.
** Nurse- Doctor relationship can definitely be worked on. I've heard where doctor has thrown instruments in the OR.... it has gotten better but can still be improved.
**Antepartum unit is very disorganized. Polices are unclear.
** Hardly any bonuses.
