Very poor executive and unit leadership - all talk, no action
Pros
I had wonderful coworkers. We made a great team, always helped each other. That was the only thing that kept me going at this facility.
Cons
Executive leadership always talks about how they’re “working on hiring more staff”, I heard this constantly for over two years straight as the nurses and CNAs were flexed up every shift. My license was always at stake with unsafe ratios and patients that should have been in an ICU, but weren’t because there were no beds available. I had honestly the worst nurse manager I’ve ever had in my life, HIGH on favoritism, always worried about your personal life, asks employees to be her “unit snitches”. It was so disgusting and this lady has worked at UCHealth for about thirty years. Coworkers always reported her to HR and she was investigated several times, but nothing was ever done because UCHealth obviously does not give a damn about their employees, just the bottom dollar. If a patient assaults the NURSE very badly, management will ask you what YOU did wrong to make it happen and they will kiss the patient’s backside. UCHealth is also one of the worst paying systems for nurses in the Denver area so definitely look elsewhere if you want to be paid what you’re worth. “Raises” there are completely insulting. Also you have to pay for parking which although minor, is annoying.