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Bethany Retirement Living

The management is terrible, & offers zero respect to their nursing staff. You will be overworked & ran into the ground, my experience as a new graduate was extremely poor. Nurses are expected to do everything while caring for 20+ residents. The role of a nurse at this facility is to complete wound care, transcribe orders, medicare charting, discharge/admit/transfer/ER transfers patients, glucose checks, 24hr charting, update ADLs, respond to stop & watches, call out meal tickets, report labs, administer all medication, supplements & treatments w/o med-aide, complete DAILY audits, provider rounds, answering phone calls, schedule appointments, schedule transport service, etc. I have seen nurses stay 4hrs past the end of their shifts. You must have the unit phone, tracker, ipod, & walkie on you at all times or you will be scolded. The DON will call frequently barking orders & making demands. AVOID DON AT ALL COSTS. Keep track of hours, as you will be shorted on paycheck. They offer shift incentives, but don't follow through with pay. You will not get a raise if you do not attend any and all meetings unless you have a medical excuse with a doctors note, along with education modules. Good luck. -10/10

- A typical day at work would include entering 401k eligibility for new employees, filing, entering applications, reference checks, balancing insurance reports for our CFO, writing applications for Quality Awards, Interviewing applicants, data entry, and interacting with Bethany's upper management on a day to day basis. 

- I have learned the extreme importance of professionalism in the work place and having a system in order to get tasks done in a timely manner. 

-My co-workers are probably my favorite thing about my job. I can honestly say there is not a single soul that I do not cherish and respect that I have day to day contact with.

-The hardest part of the job is I rarely get to have social interaction with residents residing at Bethany and that is so important to me. 

-The most enjoyable part of my job is that I am working in a position that has to do with Long Term Care which has always been my life long dream. Having co-workers who I value and respect always had "zest" to job.

Bethany is a very friendly, family oriented workplace.  Co-workers are made to feel important and an asset to their organization.  It is an ever growing, ever changing environment to try to stay with the times and changes of the workplace. A typical day at work is not all work. There are fun times visiting with residents and their families and staff recognition for service provided. The hardest part of my job is when a resident passes away.  Staff become a part of their family and feel the loss just like the "biological" family. I've learned to become a better nurse, a stronger leader, and a happier person. Management is very young and although managers don't always bring experience to their positions, they bring with them the newer ways of doing things.

I left this employer strictly because of management. They were completely unwilling to take employee concerns seriously or make them feel like an asset to the company. The nurses, CNAs, and other floor employees were never shown appreciation or recognition unless they were being reprimanded. It's common knowledge in the facility that you don't know what the DON or SERC looked like until they had done something wrong and were being written up. Management is unwilling to help out on the floor unless state happens to be in the building, other than that they make their appearances extremely rare. The disrespect from management was unmatched. No one, let alone someone in as high of a position as the SERC, should be referring to an employee as a “mail order idiot.” It's hard to leave that negative atmosphere at work and not let it affect you outside of working hours. In my opinion, the pay and benefits and networking offered to you while working at Bethany are not worth the stress and belittlement you receive from management.

(I work at the 42nd location! I know nothing about university!) I worked as a CNA 1year and worked as a Medication aide later. It was my first CNA job. I really loved my job. Taking care of residents and getting to know them and making their last time happy. Now I am working as a Medication aide and I still love the job itself.. BUT management and schedulings are sucks!! :D They don't care about workers :) They treat us as a robot. I guess we do not need a rest from physical and emotional burdens haha :D Also, some nurses do nothing and expected us to do everything. I really wonder about what nurses are sometimes! (I am also in nursing school. I am so excited to be a nurse one day :D)  I really don't know why people working here! Maybe for the money? If you are too happy with your life so you want to get miserable then I recommend this company! Good luck to my future friends :D 

I worked with Bethany only a short time and was fired when I tried getting a shift covered ahead of time due to my son being sick. I was called by the manager of my department and said I was unreliable and it wasn't going to work out. The training I had was appalling in the position I was in. I was supposed to complete training in four days without my trainer showing me things I needed to know, then get scolded by the manager for not knowing, then proceeded to tell me in 30 seconds how to handle them. 

The pay was decent and the benefits offered were great. I still would not recommend this company to anyone who has kids at home, as apparently trying to find someone to cover a shift 24 hours in advance or more is frowned upon.

At Bethany you are expected to carry out a standard of care while completing your daily tasks given to you. While at Bethany I learned how to follow ADLs, entertain residents, provide moral support to residents and family, practice behavioral interventions, precise charting, infection control and customer service skills.  Management worked with us to provide the highest standard of care and we all worked together as a team to make sure procedures were carried out properly. The hardest part of this job is saying goodbye to your residents as they pass on to life's next adventure but the relationships you form make it all worth it.

During my time at bethany I was also going through EMT training at night. So my schedule was very disorganized but they were accommodating. Unfortunately with EMT school and working there I was not able to get enough hours to work as a full time employee. Management was good. My coworkers were a little cold to me, but I somewhat expected that being a male in a female dominated profession. The hardest part of the job was finding a routine and sticking to it so you got everything done that you needed to get done. The most enjoyable part of the job was getting to know the residents.

I personally wouldn't recommend this job to anyone that wants a flexible schedule and needs to be off when the shift is over. You can get stuck working 16 hour shifts if they mandate you. This rarely happens but can. Good job if you like to do everything by yourself. Don't try to ask for help lifting anyone or help rolling them because it rarely comes. Ended up getting my back hurt having to lift someone off the floor and no other cna or nurse came to help when asked. Worked night shift and had over 30 people to look after. they may say they are all "sleeping" but that is not the case.

Working at Bethany was pretty stressful, it is a quick paced work environment, and some of the supervisory staff can be pretty picky with how they want things done, and if you don't do it their way they can get snippy quick. For instance, a CNA who was my senior, got after me for leaving a pair of gloves in a garbage can in a residents room. He expected me to change it, even though there was nothing else in there, which I thought was silly for wasting a garbage bag with only a pair of gloves in it. I talked to my superior about it and she agreed that it was not necessary to change it, however I just thought it was a little ridiculous how some people can be so nit picky.

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Nursing assistant 3 salaries reported	$23.67 per hour
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Building services attendant 1 salary reported	$25.50 per hour
Human resources assistant 1 salary reported	$20.00 per hour

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