LPN at the State Hospital - The best place to work as an LPN - Licensed Practical Nurse Utah State Hospital Employee Review

Great teams of people who care!

Can be high stress sometimes

-Some ability to choose hours -On-site cafeteria with super cheap food. Grounds are nice and peaceful for breaks. -Paid Training, no previous experience necessary, always hiring -Effort is rewarded to a degree -Lots of overtime potential -Can be purposeful work and rewarding if you spend that effort

-Can be very high stress dealing with aggressive and high-risk patients, wouldn't recommend for over-anxious people. Creates high turnover in the position. -Need outside schooling or training for any real upward momentum, though they will help compensate for education if you choose to do so. -Pay has since been decreased slightly from COVID. Benefit package is nothing special, and PTO is accumulated slowly. -Getting shifts off or missing shifts can create a lot of difficulty and can have serious repercussions, though the reasoning is understandable as it is a hospital. -Change in procedure or systems is slow due to government bureaucracy in any large decision making, which can make tough situations on a unit or with a patient take a lot longer to resolve. -Quality of work varies largely unit to unit, and bad management is visible at all layers.