Blind and Ignorant Senior Leadership - Registered Nurse Ascension Employee Review

3.0
12 Dec 2017
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Pros

Pay for Nurses is pretty good due to Nurse Union. Most of the staff around the hospital are very caring and wonderful people (you always have a few bad eggs wherever you go). Overall the facility is maintained well and some things are fixed relatively quickly. Nurses are given a decent amount of autonomy.

Cons

UNSAFE staffing. No nursing unit educators leading to less competent nurses. New Sound Physician group full of travel docs giving UNSAFE orders for patients. I currently would not bring my family here. Benefits are lacking, 403b match is a joke compared to other places I've worked. Recognition for employment is also laughable, you may get a printed generic "thanks for being her" card after 5 years. No meals provided for staff who have to work holidays. Heck, we had to donate blood just to get a turkey around Thanksgiving. Currently a lot of administrative people are being laid of (some with 20+ years of service) less than two weeks away from Christmas. Meanwhile the CEO of Ascension, Anthony Tersigni, is the highest paid nonprofit CEO of around 17 million...

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Cons

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Pros

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Cons

Raises are almost non-existent. The "raise" is a yearly COLA of between 2%-3%. There is no ability to talk to anyone regarding a raise, even the admin staff are fully stonewalled in the overlly corporate monolithic HR style of maintaining "fair" wages. I have worked here for several years and I actually earn less now because my "raises" do not keep up with inflation and the actual cost of living. They maintain their functionality on squeezing as much as they can out of one employer by slowly shifting more job responsibilities called "opportunities" onto you without extra pay or change in title that would get a pay increase. They look to higher level licensed staff to provide more coverage for roles that they won't hire for or cut in departments. They do "organizational restructuring" every 6 months because more staff quit, they don't replace the staff, and tell others to absorb the former FT employees job responsibilities without pay increase and being told not to go into OT.

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