Pros
Having worked in long term care and skilled nursing, the change was a welcome breath of fresh air. The correctional nursing environment caused me some initial anxiety but I gave it a shot and I'm glad I did. Most of the providers are professional and easy to work with and most the fellow nurses were good folks.
Cons
Yescare took a number of measures that in retrospect make their current predicament more clear. When the timeclocks suddenly stopped working, I thought it was just a routine IT failure. When the clock continued to be down for months, it signaled to me that perhaps they had stopped paying the payroll vendor. When they replaced floor nurses with med techs, and cut staffing, I thought is was just a corporate profit motive. Now, after the chapter 11 filing I see what was actually going on. The thing that is unconscionable is filing Chapter 11 and then failing to pay the employees. That is not only a moral and ethical breach, but downright criminal. As a medical professional, failure to foresee and anticipate patient needs can be disastrous and is one of the biggest reasons for a nurse to be terminated should an adverse event take place. The need for a payroll contingency when assembling the Chapter 11 filing is tantamount to the same thing as patient neglect in a business setting, jeopardizing the front line of customer contact by potentially inviting employees not to return to work.
