registered nurse

pharmacy specialist

senior physical therapist

mammography technologist

imaging manager

El Camino Health

I have had a very positive experience working as an ICU nurse at this hospital. The work environment is professional, collaborative, and patient-centered, making it an excellent place for nurses who are passionate about providing high-quality critical care. The ICU staff is highly productive, and everyone works together efficiently to ensure patients receive the best possible care, even during high-pressure situations.

One of the biggest strengths of this hospital is its supportive team culture. Nurses, physicians, respiratory therapists, and other healthcare professionals communicate effectively and are always willing to help one another. New team members receive guidance and encouragement, while experienced staff are approachable and eager to share their knowledge. This collaborative atmosphere makes challenging shifts more manageable and contributes to excellent patient outcomes.

The hospital also promotes professional growth through ongoing education, training opportunities, and access to modern equipment and evidence-based practices. Leadership is responsive to staff concerns and encourages open communication, creating a workplace where employees feel respected and valued. Scheduling is fair, and teamwork is consistently recognized and appreciated.

Overall, I would highly recommend this hospital to ICU nurses seeking a supportive, productive, and rewarding work environment. It is a great place to build clinical skills, work alongside dedicated professionals, and make a meaningful difference in the lives of critically ill patients.

Worked as a float pool nurse and went to 12 different units across ECH - experiencing different floors and every floor manages and has different ways of doing certain things however in general the hospitals bottom line is not “patient safety” it is getting as many patients in to the hospital as they can. If patient safety was a thing - management would be more understanding how nurses are stressed and overworked nurses can be. Big traveler culture in the hospital, and staffing likes to not plan to higher more nurses BEFORE they let go of the travelers makes the floors short nurses and making work all the more stressful for everybody else. The actual PCR staffing unit handles float pool nurses poorly and many are not satisfied being in PCR due to constant abuse they unload - unreasonable floating to units we are not familiar with, inpatient units giving float pool nurses bad assignments, and midshift floating to fill in the other units who are short. The good thing is if you like to grind out hours, staying extra shifts and working 16 hours is always available and highly encouraged here. I get constant calls everyday if I would like to come in early and I blocked the automated calling the hospital calls because I get calls nearly everyday. Above else, you are given lots of PTO every year and it’s easy to call in sick. They will always find another nurse to come in. 

I worked 12 hour shifts from 7PM - 7AM.  It was a very busy unit. Once you made initial rounds, then you start "putting out the fires", so to speak.  Everyone worked independently but were always available if you needed help.  Learned a lot about high tech monitoring, we became a certified chest pain center as well as a stroke center. The education for that was daunting but management would do anything to help you get it done by scheduled deadlines - they were very supportive.  For myself, the hardest part of the job was time management during the last 1-2 hours of the shift.  That's always been a weak point of mine, but I got better at it. Honestly the most enjoyable part of the job was just being there.  You always have frighteningly busy nights which could wreak havoc on morale and your ability to problem solve properly.  Our shift got along very well.  No matter how difficult the night was, at some point, we made time to laugh about any number of things.  It was amazing to note that just those few minutes (VERY few minutes) that we took to do that had a very positive impact on how we were able to end our shift.
Living in Florida now, it's too bad the commute is so far.  El Camino Hospital remains my favorite out of all of the places I have worked over my career.

El Camino Hospital is a safe-environment, friendly, teaching hospital willing to cross-train new employees, new grads, mentor students to help them prepare and excel on their career.
I am one of the lucky nurses who get to teach and train new grads, new employees. 
In our unit, we take care of patient that are status pre and post cardiac like CABG, ablation, pacemaker, VATS, Heimlich valve placement, patients with chest tubes, on ventilator, tracheostomy, gastrostomy, jejunostomy feeding tubes, status pre and post medical patients as well.
One of the many things I like in our department is, we take turns on being charge nurses in doing so we can exercise our bedside nursing and I love that about how our manager making sure our knowledge will continuously exercise. As an employee, I love learning new skills, the hospital looks for ways to improve our skills.
One of the hardest part that I experienced is when I had to be the bearer of unfortunate news/results,especially looking at the eyes of your patient, patients families, their loved-ones and tell them bad news. 
Enjoyable part is when patient/person gets to go home and b
hemodynamically stable. For me, that is one of the reason of my existence.

A fast paced position that encompassed many unexpected situations / issues that needed resolution on a daily basis to keep physicians, and other hospital staff personnel able to do their job.  Oversee patient issues with billing, secondary consultations for treatment as well as overseeing voice recognition dictated reports for accuracy and content by pathologists.   I learned the importance of teamwork thru instilling a sense of working as a team and the importance of good communication and fostering respect for each persons position as being necessary for the success of the department and what we did for each patient.  I loved my job!  I have always felt very fortunate  to be a part of the hospital I worked for.
The most enjoyable part of the job were the patients, the department staff and the pathologists and their work which was fascinating and always interesting every day.  The hospital medical staff were also a pleasure to work with for our part of the care of their patients.

Every day I come to work ready to take on new projects and help clients needing geriatric consulting. This is a desk job, so its important to get up and stretch one's legs every hour or so. My colleagues are all hard working friendly people who are trying to make a difference in the community. El Camino Hospital is noteworthy for its community outreach work that it does, specifically with their community benefit funds. The hardest part of my job is developing programs for the community by the hospital, to address the needs identified by our annual community assessment. I like to work quickly and thus feel slowed down when I have to constantly seek approval from my manager to go ahead and do what I need to do to get the project off the ground. So it's been a little tough having a manager who is not very present, but she is a wonderful boss with a lot of knowledge about how the hospital should run. The best part of my job is getting the chance to work on programs that will totally change how people live their lives, and knowing I'm making a positive difference is all I need to sleep at night.

El Camino Hospital is a good place to work, but in my position and department in particular there's not much room for growth. The compensation package is good as well as the benefits. However, the Human Resources department unfortunately has a bad reputation to no fault of it's own. I've worked here for four years and there are some guildelines set by PRN and SEIU that we have to adhere to in regards to hiring and transferring employees, which employees seem to be frustrated by. Also, employees are upset with certain changes made to their benefit packages that the unions agreed too, but for some reason it's reflected poorly on the HR team. In general I get along with many employees and managers throughtout the hospital, and gained great rapport with many staff members at all levels . Overall, I'm thankful the HR experience that I've gained here at ECH, but I do not want to remain stagnant in my career. I now feel it's time to learn new and more challenging aspects of HR.

Working with the professionals at El Camino Hospital has been one of the best work experiences since my time spent with Disney. The team spirit among my peers and others from the many departments all share the same mission goal, the best quality care we can provide for our patients. The work is hard and requires the best to create and maintain the highest level of quality care, the many teams I have the privilege of working with, from my fellow CNA's to the RN's and managers make my day as an enjoyable day possible. There isn't anything easy about acute patient care, we are dependent upon for every task under taken, I look forward to meeting these tasks with my skill and experience so that whatever is happening is carried out flawlessly and effortlessly as possible.

What is the best part of working at the company?
Great work environment.

Brand new State of the Art 
Mental Health Building.

 All safety measures in place . 
Coworkers are friendly and fun.ElCamino is Designated a Magnet Hospital 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
High Acuity Patient Assignments 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Leaders are supportive.

Lots of young energetic nurses.

High Expectations for Standard of Care 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Safety’s Rounds ,Pass Medication ,Mental Status  evaluations , Suicide Assessments , Fall Prevention and charting.Discharge one and Admit one patient with a Safety Plan . Talk to patient’s families.
Thank goodness El Camino has EPIC for our Electronic Medical Record  System . 
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Take Lunch Breaks outside in the Sunshine.

•	Responsible for the update, and organize medical records, including electronic health records.

I learned about the color coding of each section which had a patient medical record.

Working with many physicians and being responsible for pulling each patient chart based on daily appointments was very challenging and working with another medical records clerk was a terrific team effort.  

The hardest part of the job is filing all the charts away because the patient could be coming back to another department within the hospital and searching for the chart sometime would be time consuming if the patient chart was on the cart to be filed back on the shelf.

The most enjoyable part of the job was matching all charts daily to the physician appointment sheet.

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Registered nurse 7 salaries reported	$104 per hour
Pharmacy specialist 2 salaries reported	$93.86 per hour
Senior physical therapist 4 salaries reported	$73.08 per hour
Mammography technologist 4 salaries reported	$79.76 per hour
Imaging manager 2 salaries reported	$97.71 per hour

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