Pros
- Intense work environment -Clinical setting - Coworkers are generally friendly - Management is good - Skill development - Meeting different people - Benefits
Cons
- PAY! - Understaffed - No on call staff, so if someone calls out you will get more pts - Number of pts is never the same, one day you will have 8 pts and others you will have 14 pts, whereas nurses ALWAYS have either 5 or 6. - Not enough Behavior Health staff so you may have a super time consuming/frustrating pt in addition to your normal ones - No defined units, cardiovascular, gastrointestinal, hospice, orthopedic, oncology, so you have no way of knowing what to expect: exciting at first, however it gets old fast. - Pt attitudes can fluctuate from very understanding and thankful to obscene, violent, and demanding.