Corportate Healthcare's Got To Go!
Pros
- Mandatory breaks - Appropriate ratios - Good work culture within my department - Security is very present on campus
Cons
- Lowest ED Tech pay in the entire Portland metro area!! - Corporate seems to hate anything union-related and has apparently taken benefits away from ONA nurses over the years (cafeteria discount, sick pay, etc...) - The insulting Christmas "bonus" of a Safeway coupon that gets mailed to us every year - Health insurance coverage (Aetna's terrible and has derailed coverage for many of my coworkers) - Have to use PTO to cover sick leave. So if you get injured on the job, have a sick family member to care for, or would be contagious to your coworkers and patients with vulnerable immune systems, say goodbye to your vacation time :( - High turnover rate because Prov doesn't care to retain the staff that they hire by offering decent pay and benefits - Lack of structured new grad RN residency program. All the other Portland metro hospital systems have a regular schedule of new grad RN cohorts, but Providence hires new grads based on staffing needs, and this hiring tends to happen last minute from what I've heard. Discouraging to me as a final quarter nursing student/caregiver who wants to apply all over the board as a new grad.