licensed practical nurse

nursing assistant

charge nurse

assistant

housekeeper/laundry

Arbutus Park Manor

Management is only worried about filling beds, not the staff. Very understaffed at all times which makes the job miserable because you end up having to do the work of 3 or more people. Staff doesn’t help each other out and management doesn’t stay to help out when short staffed. It’s far and few between that you get to take a full lunch break or any of the breaks in general.  Arbutus is not allowed to do CNA training classes on site due to previous fines, so the new hires that are brought in are waiting longer than originally planned to find a training class. Residents complain excessively about staffing issues as well. Med passes aren’t completed appropriately and are often neglected due to laziness. It seems like none of the staff are happy, everyone is always complaining and threatening to quit. Compensation is well below other nursing homes in the area, considering you end up doing not only your job but you get stuck doing someone else’s job because of excessive call offs. Staff call off when they just don’t feel like coming in or they’re mad that there are just not enough people on the floor to help. No repercussions for call offs/no shows, they’re desperate for employees so staff does whatever they want. I would not recommend this place to ANYONE!! 

I worked as a RN (charge and supervisor).   One of the things that bothered me most about this place is how differently the staff is treated.   Not everyone is treated equal.   Some of the worst employees get treated better than the people who come to work and do their job day in and day out.   When it’s brought to managements attention, if falls on deaf ears.  Management will also preach teamwork but NEVER practices that.   When their day is done, they are out the door regardless of how short staffed you are and how much more work they pile on you.  Admissions will continue to come because at the end of the day, the residents are just money to them.   If they truly cared about the residents or their staff, you would see more help from the administrator, DON, and the rest of the back office staff.   Instead they say “sometimes we all gotta step up and do more”.  These words came from the DON but you’ll never see the DON or the administration step up when their staff needs them.  I was probably one of the better RN’s that place had but couldn’t keep doing when feeling undervalued and unappreciated for my efforts.   Sadly it’s the residents who suffer.   I would never recommend this place unless you’re a horrible and unreliable employee who calls off all the time.  They seem to take care of these type of people.

I worked here for a little over a year and never once was recognized for my flexibility or my ever continuing perseverance and accuracy. I covered numerous shifts for others on my scheduled days off. I even came back to work 1 week later after having a tonsillectomy with the possibility of hemorrhaging due to excessive lifting of patients. I came back early from that surgery only because I genuinely felt sad for my then supervisor who wanted to take some time off that very week to see her brother who was coming home from the military. I wasn't healed and I became sick after that from pushing my body too hard. Nobody offered to help me lift my patients those weeks after my surgery. They did not give me light-duty or any alternatives. I was hired for LPN Supervisor. I was lead to believe that would be my position LPN Supervisor,......only to find out 2 months later after training that there was no LPN Supervisor positions open and that I was going to act and work as a nurse's aide the entire time, unless a actual LPN called off. I have arthritis in my back along with scoliosis and I knew I wouldn't be able to lift patients every night for long. I really had to push myself,...I didn't want my co-workers to realize how much pain I really was in. I miss the residents there though,....they were my extended family like.

This is a nice place to work minus the administrators and your department supervisors. I can honestly not wrap my head around how administration gets away with talking to and treating staff the way that they do. I was told when I first started that if there was any issues going on in the department that I should go to my supervisor. I did, what I didn’t expect next was for my supervisor to then blame the problems on the residents and then her to tell the residents about how bad her staff was and how much nobody can get along. There is absolutely no communication within the department. Also getting a schedule for 1 week at a time and having no idea what you work week after week. Administrators don’t recognize actual problems but worry about the tiny things that don’t need addressed. In your place of work you should feel as though you can trust everyone. Not one person in administration will have your back or you will be able to trust. If every single staff member has issues with one specific problem you would think they would look into the issue and not constantly push it aside week after week until more and more employees quit because of this one problem. 

Every nursing job can be stressful and busy, and Arbutus is no exception.  I worked as an LPN from 2013 to 2017 and left d/t relocating out of state.  Arbutus was a very clean and well organized place to work.  The leadership was very approachable and caring!  I miss that!  The activity department was a major theme for resident care at Arbutus.  I also miss that!  The kitchen staff and therapy departments were outstanding as well!  I was very proud to be a part of a nursing facility that incorporated  the spiritual, emotional, and physical well being of the residents into their individual care plans.  At Arbutus, I always felt like I was an important part of something good, and that's becoming a rare thing these days as "health care" continually declines into "health services."  It is becoming an increasingly difficult task for management to meet the changing demands of Medicare guidelines while satisfying the desires and needs of both the resident and employee.  In my opinion, Arbutus does this very well - certainly as well as can be done.  I have yet to find a place that compares to Arbutus, but I'm still looking.

Our residents come first! Taking care of our aging population is very rewarding and I have been blessed for the past seven years to call Arbutus Park Manor my home away from home. After spending many years working for a large, for-profit company it was very refreshing to come to Arbutus and and be recognized and appreciated as a person and not just a nametag. Arbutus holds highly the importance of employee work/life balance and provides the flexibility needed not only to be your best while in the office but also outside of the office. I am proud to say that I work for one of the very best independent, non-profit, faith based organizations in the area.

My coworkers were great. Almost everyone got along. Management however was aweful. They could care less about the CNAS there. The residents were nice for the most part. They aren’t flexible with scheduling. And it’s very stressful. If you work 3rd shift and someone calls off on 1st shift you have to wash up people on last rounds. That may not sound like a big deal until there’s only 2 aides on the floor n you have 20 residents and sometimes only get a 3 hour notice. The DON is a true nightmare and constantly hovers over you unless you suck up to managment constantly. Lunches are not paid nor do you get free lunches. So you only get 35 hours a week not 40. And you only get off one weekend a month.

I absolutely love my job! Management is approachable, kind, and do what they say they are going to do. They care about the residents as much as they do their own families. Work environment is very friendly with only a few staff members here and there that may bring drama into the work place. Arbutus fells like home to me. There is no other nursing home in the area that compares. Everyday I go into work, I know that I will be providing the best care to my residents. When I leave at the end of the day, I know that the staff following me will continue to provide the same level of care to my residents. Those that live and work at Arbutus are genuinely happy. Every member of the whole facility is family. I am so thankful to have a job there.

This place is like every other nursing home in the area. Lots of gossip and absolutely no communication. The Hr director is always running around and never is available to talk to when you need too. The DON don't care about helping the staff when they are short, they will give you the work of 3 people to do as long as they don't have to help, because of this reason people have left and they are extremely short staffed.The residents and some of the staff are what keep  me here. Not a place to come for a life long
career.

As a previous review said, It is a really great place until you work there. You get every 4th or 5th weekend off instead of every 3rd as promised. Many promises are made about many things but never are they kept. You compete with other staff to have holidays off & sign a bogus sheet to request them off but still do not get them anyways. They say no mandatory overtime but if they ask you to stay & you say no they walk around & degrade you to other employees. The place is full of bullies who get away with it because they can not get anyone else to work there. The residents are the only ones worth it. They are the only enjoyable part.

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Licensed practical nurse 2 salaries reported	$24.43 per hour
Nursing assistant 4 salaries reported	$20.24 per hour
Charge nurse 1 salary reported	$37.00 per hour
Assistant 1 salary reported	$13.50 per hour
Housekeeper/laundry 8 salaries reported	$12.00 per hour

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