registered nurse

mobile technician

surgical technician

registered nurse - operating room

patient care technician

Alaska Regional Hospital

After a few years at this facility, I can honestly say it's a great place to work if you enjoy having the corporate margins being more important than quality patient care. Don't get me wrong, the therapy team is fantastic, and does what they can with the limited resources and support they have. But upper management seems intent to keep morale in the dumpster, with unrealistic productivity standards based on models from other states, completely disregarding the reality of working in an Alaskan facility that's basically held together by duct tape and gum. Pay is and will always be the barest of minimums, and you had better negotiate high when you are hired, as raises more than yearly 25 cent "cost of living adjustments" are not going to happen, unless you climb the corporate ladder. The other benefits are fair, with 401k, and PTO + sick leave which are separate banks of time. There is also the option get get $1 wage increases for qualified certifications obtained, though PTAs can only get one, while PTs can get two. Some compensations are made for continuing ed, but no tuition reimbursement. The EMR is atrocious, with documentation time always being held against you despite it's tedious layout and entry process. So all in all, another basic corporate-owned hospital setting. Don't expect too much, and you won't be disappointed.

work day starts at 0600 and ends at 1630,day starts out with approximately 12 OR surgical patients to prepare for surgery.
multiple IV starts, blood draws,meds to pass,clip and scrub op sites, apply SCD's and Teds. Assisst with blocks and epidurals. documentaion of patient assesment  and meds given and procedures that were done. Float to radiolgy to start IV;s and or place urinary catheter. Float to phase II Recovery. Float to Preadmission testing to interview next day patients. co-workers are very open to helping each other we are very team oriented. hardest part of the job is going to work at 0600. the most enjoyable is working and interacting with the patients and their families. immediate management is experienced but new to our hospital , very knowledgeable. or management is ok not alot of experience , manager of PACU has just quit so that position is vacant at this time but she was great and very organized

A typical day at work starts at 7 and ends at 7:30 depending on day or night shift. Your work load can depend on the number of new admits and the amount of staffing durring your shift. Staffing can be changed at any time of your shift and your patient load can change at any time. As a chage nurse I have learned how to deal with these changes with staffing in order to make smooth transititions for my staff. Management is not available durring night shift except for the House Supervisior. Most communication is done through e-mail. Most of my co-workers are experenced nurses with a few nurses with 1 or 2 years of experence. The hardest part of my job is dealing with upset co-workers who are upset with fellow co-works and new policies they disagree with. The most enjoyable part of my job is the actual contact with diffrent patients and the quick recovery from their orthopedic surgery.

My typical day at work would included 30-40 surgery patients that would come through the PACU; maybe 1/3 of those would be inpatients. PACU patients could be anything from colonoscopy with anesthesia to cardioid endartectomy. When needed I was charge nurse. I also precepted nursing students for UAA and oriented new hires to the unit.
The hardest part of the job is balancing; moving patients out of recovery ( phase I and II are in the same room) to allow new post surgical patients into recovery.
I loved assisting Anesthesia with picc lines and blocks.
My co-workers are the best, you never felt alone; Great team work.
I loved the critical care aspect of the job. To be able to identify problems before they became critical.

What is the best part of working at the company?
Best part of working at Alaska regional was the opportunity to work in different areas

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Staffing was always an issue. Nurses were always working shorthanded. Management would communicate that according to the grid we were working with adequate staffing.
However, that was due to the fact that they just change the grid 
Senior management came across as insincere.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Coworkers, for the most part worked very hard

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
I don’t know that there was a typical day
There were good days and there were bad days.

Inpatient and Outpatient Phlebotomist. Well over 1,500 blood draws in a little over three years, I worked varied shifts consisting of early morning, all day, night shifts, over night shifts, and every other shift in between.  I have experience with patients as well as situations of all types.  I have worked with infants, geriatrics, adolescents, conscious and unconscious people, post and pre-operative patients, inpatient floor rounds in a six floor hospital, emergency room as well as trauma.  Actively participated in statewide (local & out of town) health fairs, and was also the outpatient mobile Phlebomist for a little over a year  at a children's behavioral center; Northstar Behavioral Treatment Center/ Northstar Hospital.

I worked so hard, most days if a nurse saw me sit to do my documentation they would find something for me to do. When I took a break, they would stare at the clock and then glare at me. I was never late coming back. 
My experiences was each floor I worked on, the nurses would set and gossip about the CNA's and complain a lot about their patients. I did what I was asked to do while the RN'S sat and ate behind the nurse station literally the entire time. I was told they get the big bucks to hand out meds, not clean someone who messed themselves. I was humiliated and drained each and every single day that I was there. The DON was great, but she wasn't there to see what her nurses were doing.

There isn't enough room on the page to write about all the different situations that happened to me while an employee. I surrendered my badge to Human Resources after 11 months. The supervisor is crude, and obnoxious and comes and goes as she pleases, and co-workers on the day shift are a mix of individuals with psychotic  personalities.  Be prepared for bullying with little support from management to correct the problem.  Management falls short on a lot of levels. The hospital projects a persona of being a great medical facility and it is not. It is just mediocre at best. EPIC electronic medical record is a total nightmare.

The most typical day at work is sometimes dealing with combative or difficult patients, especially when trying to care for them and assisting them with the help they need. I've learned to build confidence in my work and to keep in mind that i can achieve my work performance successfully. My supervisor was excellent, very kind, understanding and always try to ways to solve a problem among staff issues. The work environment can be stressful sometimes but rewarding. The hardest part of the job is sometimes can be very exhausting working 12hrs shift. The most enjoyable part of the job is working with wonderful staff.

Alaska Regional Hospital is small enough for employees to feel like family. The biggest drawback is that its an HCA facility, which means the corporation back in the lower 48 states tries to make policy that doesn't apply in AK. Oh, and the union (local teamsters - figure that out) that represents nurses is receiving kickbacks from the hospital, so they have a conflict of interest when negotiating on your behalf and aren't work much. But unions haven't been relevant for a while now, and it's really not enough of a negative to not recommend this facility.

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Patient care technician 5 salaries reported	$20.03 per hour

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