registered nurse

medical assistant

child welfare specialist

partner

security officer

Childrens Wisconsin

I started working at Children's Hospital with great optimism because I believed I was working some where that genuinely cared about me and the people it serves. What a joke. The management team I have dealt with are judgmental fact deniers who would sooner shove you into a corner and forget about you if you bring something to their attention. My day to day is a monotonous mess of being yelled at and belittled. I honestly praise the doctors here who will reach out and try to communicate with you on a friendly basis, because some of them are the nicest people I have ever met while others should NEVER have become pediatricians in the first place.

The micro management is incredible with these people and I always get the sense that they really don't care about you, but they will certainly talk about your private business behind your back.
If you are anything less than a nurse, you are treated like an incompetent child with a single brain cell, I have never felt like a valuable part of any team here and I likely never will. Half of the nurses I have come in contact with NEED to be praised or they throw a tantrum, it's honestly pathetic. The favoritism and the cliquishness is appalling and if you are even slightly "different", you are judged harshly and pressured to change.

Sure, they take care of kids, but they absolutely give more respect to those with "severe" problems and things that are socially "acceptable", heaven forbid somebody come in with a mental health crisis, cause all they are to these people is "crazy". It's sickening. I would honestly only take my child here (had I any) if I had absolutely nowhere else to go. It's hard not to get lulled into their "inclusiveness and acceptance" shtick unless you work here and see that it's a complete and total ruse. 

On the positive side, the employee pharmacy has been a really great asset and I definitely appreciate that you can get your prescriptions filled there really cheap or for free. I do get paid more than I initially thought I would and I have met some decent people here, but job hunter beware, if you are different, they will root you out and isolate you until your spirit breaks and your mental health tanks. Apply with caution.

Management is a problem and toxic. One of them is extremely passive, the other is disrespectful and passive aggressive. 

They have no presence amongst the techs, don’t know how to solve conflict, always contribute to gossip culture, are extremely inflexible and will not intervene when complaints about other’s  work ethic is put in or when there is drama between coworkers. 

Their communication is horrendous. I can’t even put it in words how bad they are. You don’t find out about new policies and rules until they wait for you to make a mistake. You have to reach out to multiple managers to find a solution to a question or figure out who can help you with your shift if someone calls out. They expect people to work hard at the expense of slackers and refuse to fix any issue that is not schedule or coverage related. I know people who have worked 14 days straight for 10 hour shifts with no acknowledgment. 

There are no opportunities to grow, they always have an excuse as to why they can’t train or allow someone to learn more to expand in their role. Training is non-existent and as long as someone does the job they don’t care to reprimand those that don’t. They create fake wait lists to prevent you from learning a new skill such as sterile compounding. 

Unfair treatment amongst coworkers and there’s always an excuse as to why they can’t help out when the techs are struggling. They have favorites who can slack but when a hard work slows down a bit they make a huge issue. They hate helping out the techs and hide in their office all day unless it’s to call someone in the office and chastise them about gossip they contribute to and create. They get upset when they have to cover for a tech calling out or going to lunch. They don’t want to work and expect everyone else to. 


Typical day: After receiving report from previous RN. I would review orders for each patient. I would then go to visit each patient based on their level of acuity. Our patients were all pediatric and most had family with questions and concerns which needed addressing each morning. I would review labs and explain MD orders and give an overview of what was to be expected for the day. I would then attend rounds with the MDs specifically for my patients and adjust any orders and mention concerns the family had or new issues which arose since MDs last visit. I would then carry out orders such as, scheduled medication administrations including supportive medications and chemotherapy. RNs were also responsible for address labs with MDs and administering platelets and PRBC as ordered. I would prep and deliver patients to various departments within hospital for scheduled tests. 

What I learned: This was my first position out of nursing school. I learned everything- proper medication administration, lab values, accessing ports, PICC and CVL lines, sterile dressing changes and most importantly time management. 

Managent and co-workers were wonderful to work with. There was a team environment and each employee took time to review or teach new orders. CHW was a teaching hospital and the environment supported questions and practice for all employees. 

Hardest part of the job was losing patients and learning to reassure parents about treatment plans and prognoses. 

I enjoyed working with the children. Each day I learned something new from their courage and resilience.  

Upper mgmt only wants to sound good. Employees have horrible pay, awful insurance, hostile environment when any time off is needed, including sick time & doctor appointments. Vacations have to be OK’d by your colleagues, overtime has to be approved and is really only allotted for holidays. There are ZERO paid holidays—all of the time for federal holidays you would have off is taken out of your accumulated vacation time. There is no set amount for sick time —that also comes out of your vacation time. If you need to call in sick, even for Covid, you are given an occurrence/demerit - this includes emergent situations, calling in before/after a weekend or holiday is a double occurrence. For the first 5 years, you get less than 8 hours of vacation time PER biweekly paycheck. ANY and all time off, including emergencies is taken out of your accumulated vacation time(which should be used for VACATION ONLY). The pay is absolutely atrocious —you work like a dog and get below living wages. Extremely slim opportunities for advancement unless you want to become a medical assistant and get horrible pay for that as well! CW wants to look nice to the outside world while treating employees like second class citizens. 

The ONLY thing this place has going for it is that if you or your family member becomes a patient there, you will be well-taken care of by the immediate staff. Otherwise, I wouldn’t think twice about this place. 

What is the best part of working at the company?
CHW used to be a wonderful place to work. Post COVID, under new leadership, the culture and focus significantly changed. It is extremely hierarchical, corporate, with a focus on numbers and outcomes, not children and families. Therapists are not treated as professionals. They have little to no autonomy in their work. The focus moved from mental health to “behavioral” health. They run an urgent care model of therapeutics. Kids sit on waitlists up to a year for a therapist. Once they are finally seen, they are given 12 sessions and then cut loose - regardless of if they are well or not. The expectations are unrealistic and there is constant turn over and lack of administrative support. I do not recommend working there. 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
The corporate culture. They pretend to care about their staff, but their policies do not reflect that. The culture breeds burnout and vicarious trauma for their therapists

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Corporate, cold, focused on numbers and outcomes, not children & families. Punitive 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Exhausting. You see 7-9 clients, back to back, all day. There is little to no time for lunch or even a bathroom break. You are also expected to attend meetings, answer email, and complete all your paperwork.

I enjoyed my time working at Children's Wisconsin in the medical lab for the year I was employed. My co-workers and immediate management were personable and enjoyable to work with. I left my position on very good terms.

My only issues arose after leaving Children's Wisconsin. I was informed by management that my position came with a sign on bonus payable on the day of my one year anniversary. I did not receive my bonus in a timely manner. Because I resigned my position after my one-year anniversary—but before HR had scheduled my payment—they are now attempting to withhold my payment entirely on a technicality. 

I would never have expected these types of tactics from the company I originally respected. I had planned on potentially returning to Children's Wisconsin in the future but this experience has left me completely adverse to the company. I dedicated my time to Children's Wisconsin for over a year with no problems in the lab but Human Resources does not work for employees and are doing everything in their power to withhold payment with no clear incentive. 

If it is the official policy and decision of Children's Wisconsin to treat employees and recent employees in this way, I can not recommend this as a company to work for.

A typical day at Children's Hospital involves the careful assessment of children, administration of medication, and close consideration and enacting of care plans. From the experience at Children's Hospital, I have learned how to communicate therapeutically not only to children, but also with their families. I have also learned how to care for pre and post operative patients by focusing on both physical and emotional needs.
The management at Children's have an open door policy and make a point to be involved in the everyday care and coordination of the units. Children's Hospital holds a high standard for their employees, and this is evident in the exceptional care and pride employees have in their work.
The most difficult part of the job is also the most enjoyable aspect of the job: working with children. It can be challenging convincing children of the need to take a medicine, complete a task, or do therapy. However working with children is so rewarding in the sense that children are so resilient to illness and disease that it is inspiring to see them cope with diagnoses.

I was a Security Officer for nearly a decade at this organization, and it was a fun job for the first 6 years.  Then the management changed into this huge powerful money making machine.  They started taking away things like little perks that were appreciated, company picnics, etc...  Then when the long time president retired, they started micromanaging everything and heavily scrutinized your performance to push you out the door.  If you disagreed with anything, you were deemed a trouble maker and targeted for termination.  On the positive side, the benefits are way above average, the pay was great, and the Vacation benefits were very generous!!  Great Co-workers to work with and get to know.  Some supervisors were very professional and helpful.  Some not so helpful, but troubling.  There were long hours at times and a lot of stress.  Especially after their huge expansion.  Proceed with caution with Children's.  Children's is awesome, but working for and putting up with the tyranny of some of the greedy management can be a hazard to your career and job security.  Don't get complacent when working here.  Stay alert!

Working as a PAR in the ED, you work with a multitude of employees. 75% of them fairly nice and assisting. While my experience is pleasant, if you don't have thick skin I don't recommend you work in the EDTC. Not for the situations you may be involved in with patients, but with the staff. Many of the staff can be quite racist especially 2nd and 3rd shift nurses. You can definitely feel the vibe change when there is a shift change. The biggest reason why I left CHW is because I did not agree with and understand how some nurses who are suppose to treat CHILDREN could be so racist, close minded and not understanding at all to non-white children. With that being said, those nurses are probably only 1% of the nurses at CHW. 99% of all the nurses I ever interacted with were AMAZING and should be given much more credit than they deserve!

A great place to learn pediatric medicine as a non-physician. A typical day in photographic and videographic audio visual services might include multimedia presentations for medical and administrative staff, surgical photography, craniofacial photography, videotaping orthopedic gate studies, video taping lectures for nursing, video editing using Media 100 in a Windows environment, and photographing pediatric autopsies. Management was very supportive of all our imaging assignments and endeavors. The hardest part of the job was dealing emotionally with the periodic death of newborns, infants and children. Conversely, the most enjoyable part of the job was to witness all the medical success stories at the hospital where there probably would not have been any when I was hired in 1993. Overall, a great place to work.

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