Ochsner Health reviews

No room for career development inside departments. Must switch around to advance in any way. Leadership and Dept heads will be there until retirement and work very hard to ensure that no one will advance above them. Leadership is under educated and unknowledgable in regards to the work they preform outside of the every day tasks. 5 years in and every major event seems to be a first time effort without any logic behind methods and process. Limited space and resources for employees to preform work.

Safety precautions for nurses are not top priority, ex: if you are emptying a catheter of a person with VRE and the front desk calls your phone, you had better drop everything midstream and answer it or they will come and fuss at you. The floors are way too busy and over-stimulating, and you get such an acute patient load that it is common to misplace things, lose things, forget things, etc, thus risking your license. As an aside, management says it has protections in place for its staff but it does not. They don't care if you come to work with the flu, as long as you're a warm body to fill a staff RN's hours. Patient visitors and screaming children get the run of the floor, and are free to distract, heckle and scream at the healthcare providers as they wish. Many (not all) patients treat being on the floor as a free-for-all narcotics buffet, so in essence you are obligated to get people legally lit, knowing they could possibly be going home with a new addiction. It doesn't matter if you're the best nurse in the country, there are patients who WILL complain about you, and your patient satisfaction cards will not mean a thing: management almost always vies on the side of the patient. Again, risking your license. They will not hire more than 2 PCTs per ~50 beds, on a floor where everybody is bowel incontinent. And trust that on a Sunday when the Saints play, these PCTs will call in sick, along with 3 or 4 other nurses, so their load is on YOU, and nobody bats a lash at this (except for the nurses). It's not uncommon to see new nurses crying before the shift starts, just out of contemplation for what may go wrong that day.