Nationwide Children's Hospital reviews

Everything else - you're constantly treated like crap by management, the nurses, and the parents - worst health insurance of any healthcare facility I've worked at - managers don't have a clue how to manage - my manager actually said in a staff meeting, "I don't have time to put on scrubs to come in and find out what you do." She automatically sides with the nurses on everything, even when there's clear evidence that the nurses are wrong. - RNs get hired directly out of nursing school for ICU areas and are inadequately trained to work there - some of them don't even bother to chart correctly for patients - if you work in a clinical area, you will work with some really wonderful, intelligent nurses, but most of them are just rude and stupid. There are RNs here I would never allow near anyone I care about - there is an unbelievably high level of turnover, but no one bothers to consider that it could be the managers so it's never addressed or solved; Walmart may actually have a lower level of turnover than the NICU.

The biggest con about working here is the benefits and the work load. I think it is downright ridiculous that they don't provide maternity leave for young mothers especially when we are a CHILDREN'S hospital. Staff are forced to use PTO for everything including sick leave, vacation and maternity. I'm sorry...but having a child is not a vacation and it isn't fair if a mother has been put on bedrest during a pregnancy to have to leave her young child earlier because she has run out of FMLA and PTO. I don't even have children and I feel really sorry watching many of my coworkers go through this. Also, the hospital has gone through major expansion with the new building and facilities. As a result it is suffering major growing pains. When the new hospital first opened, instead of hiring more staff to care for the growing number of patients, administration just expected nursing staff to take on more patients and this is still continuing today and not just with nursing staff. In addition, the expansion project has cost the hospital a great deal of money and it seems as if whenever they want to cut costs, they take away more and more of our benefits. For example, the hospital recently took away all STD (short-term disability) accrual from all employees with less than 5 years service and outsourced disability benefits to an outside company. While there is bonus pay for nursing staff, Children's Hospital pays the least out of all the hospitals in the Columbus area. As a whole, this is a great hospital for patient's and their families but often the hospital seems to not care as much about the staff. For example, patient safety is talked about all the time and the hospital even has a Zero Hero initiative to prevent patient harm. Unfortunately, it took the hospital 2 more years and countless staff injuries (including a young woman being assaulted by a male patient) for the hospital to care about staff safety. All in all, perhaps a first stop early in one's career but I can not possibly see how anyone could or would stay here long enough to retire.