SpecialtyCare reviews

I'm sure this varies by division, but for DFW: Scheduling was horrendous: the next day's cases get called out at 7pm the night before and you don't know how long the case will be until you get to the hospital (could be a half an hour, could be a twelve hour affair). During on the job "training" (which was supposed to last for 2 weeks, but ended up lasting for 5 months) you're on-call 24/7 and have to drive to every hospital in the metroplex for "experience" but only get paid training wage for 40 hours a week. Keep in mind the job is opening two sterile packages, plugging in a machine, pushing a start button and wiping down a machine with a baby wipe at the end of a case AND you have already spent two weeks in Nashville learning how to do it (maybe I'm just a genius but I had it figured out the first day, certainly no need for 5 months of "training").

The training program starts off seeming great but once you can do cases on your own they immediately start making you drive or even fly great distances when they don’t have enough employees to cover cases. By the time you actually know what the job is like you already owe them thousands of dollars if you leave. Company has spread themselves too thin with contracts and is still saying they want to get even more, which is why employees are made to travel. If you push back or say you have a situation that would make traveling difficult you are bullied into going even though travel was presented as being voluntary from the beginning. Even on a normal day you have to go hours without a break to eat, drink, or even pee unless you’re lucky and another coworker is available/willing in the same hospital as you. Good luck going to the doctor on short notice because you have to request a whole day off and use PTO, but again since there are so many contracts and not enough employees even requesting a month in advance is difficult because only a certain amount of people in your area can be off at one time. This doesn’t mean just the city you’re in but multiple cities that are within 4 hours or so of where you work too. Just be careful if you are about to sign the 3 year contract.