registered nurse

registered nurse - emergency room

health screener

radiologic technologist

travel nurse

Gadsden Regional Medical Center

I have worked for three different departments; transport, pharmacy, and security.
The transport dept. has a new coordinator that I did not work under, but when I was there I started to have shoulder problems and the director that was there would not let me transfer to another dept. where I had been granted another position until SIX WEEKS. And he was completely rude EVERY single time I tried to ask about getting to transfer (which was once a week). Finally after I got to transfer to the pharmacy dept. as a tech, I worked there over a year full time and was going to school full time. I decided at that point that I really needed a part time job since I was going to school full time. The director of pharmacy dept. told me that he would TRY but that he could not promise anything (even though there was a part time position opened when I asked to be moved to part time). Needless to say, he was not able to get me the part time position as I suspected. From there I transferred to the Security dept. where they WILL work with school schedules. In this dept. I was a sitter. That is someone who sits with psych patients and keeps them from hurting themselves or others. Sometimes it is a very stressful and strenuous job, and other times you'll sit with a regular patient who has fallen and is at risk of getting up an falling again. I was sitting at work one day and got a call form the security director, and he directly asked me, "I have a question; I have another job open and I wanted to know if you would be interested in the position." this specific position was the front desk. It was a 5:30pm-1am position where you look up patients for visitors and make sure everyone is ok in the waiting room. I accepted the job and told my boss that I appreciated the opportunity. After waiting to be moved to this different position for two weeks, I asked him about it. He stopped me there and told me that I didn't need to thank him and that when he called me, he was NOT "offering" me any kind of ANYTHING. "I just merely ASKED if you would WORK that position. I didn't ask you if you WANTED it," were his exact words when I asked him about getting to start the other position. I KNOW what he asked me when he called me. And then when I confront him, he was RUDE as could be, telling me that, "There was obviously some kind of misunderstanding on YOUR part, because I didn't call you asking you if you wanted the position. I just asked if you would WORK it". That doesn't even make any kind of sense. So, in all, I would not recommend working here due to my experiences. Not saying that anyone else hasn't had great and wonderful experiences working there, but every one of mine have been... Not so great, to say the least.

I have a lot to say about this place so I apologize for the length of this. Moved to Gadsden from another city and took less money than I was making before because I was ready to get out of my hometown. Big mistake. I was hired for 7 on 7 off, 12 hour shifts. Originally not bad. I could handle that. I was there for less than a month. Had a scheduling conflict and asked a coworker if they wouldn't mind swapping for that one day. Said they would do it if I would also swap on another day (which was a little short noticed but I didn't want this to effect not getting the day I needed off so I did it). Found out a few days later that on the day this person was supposed to work for me that they called just about everyone else trying to give that shift away. Okay, not my problem anymore, but why agree to take someone's shift if you're going to try to give it away?
Due to all this, my 7 off days turned to six (again, not a huge deal), then turned to five (there was a "class" I was "required" to attend for an hour), and while an hour out of my off day isn't terrible, it's my off day and I'd rather not go into work. Period. Unless it's some kind of emergency. Five off days turned into four, then three, for some other required training (7 hours total was the requirement for this training) which basically was just me sitting there waiting for something to happen so I could actually learn something. I reached the end of my 7 hours of this training feeling like I didn't learn anything and went home. My last Monday and Tuesday off (I went out of town on that Monday) I got a text from my supervisor telling me I needed to come back on one of my off days to do more of that training. Needless to say, I didn't respond, nor did I show up (eventually I did text back but it was to tell them I found something else and wouldn't be returning to work there). It's not my fault that nothing happened during that 7 hour training. So don't tell me I need to go back to train when there's a good chance I'll sit there twiddling my thumbs again.
Last thing I'll say is this: The pay was terrible. As I said in the beginning of this review, I took less money than my previous job. THIS JOB DOES NOT PAY YOU ENOUGH FOR THE WORK THAT IS THROWN AT YOU. While you are trying to do one job, the phone is ringing and it's someone from upstairs wanting you to do something else. Then when you're in the middle of that AND what you were doing prior something else comes up. 
Maybe it's just me but the whole job was entirely too much stress for not enough pay.

They are so extreme about clocking in and out on time. The only time in my life I've been wrote up is here because I clocked in 2 minutes late because i was getting a wheelchair for a patient in the lobby on my way to the time-clock. Even after i explained... it was pushed aside and i was not even noticed for helping a patient. It was ridiculous. And the department is so micromanaged that some days it's hard to breath. I rarely get to work on what I have in goal that morning when i come in to work. The hardest part of this job is reacting to coworkers and their personality differences and trying hard to stay away from the drama. Manager does not stay on top of paperwork for example when people request off to work a Saturday and then on the day off we get messages asking where we are because she has not gone through the pile of paperwork on the desk... just basic unnecessary acts and behaviors that come across as rude and careless. Most of the work day revolves around doing other peoples work so they are happy and hopefully will stop hovering so you can concentrate on other duties. The most enjoyable part of the job is when I get to leave the office and then the weight seems to lift off my shoulders and I can breath. The CEO is a wonderful person and I believe with time, ultimately will drastically improve this workplace.

10/10 do not recommend.

This place is ran like a factory. They do not take acuity of patients and admissions into account when assigning patients. They give you a cohort of patients based on room numbers. You can have one nurse taking three admissions per shift with 3 confused patients. While another another has 6 fairly stable patients the whole shift.  Team work is poor so don't expect anyone to help you. Bed alarms go off and other coworkers just sit there or say "Is that a bed alarm going off?" I try to help out where I can but don't expect anyone else to return the favor. 

I spend half my shift trying to locate basic nursing items  on other units. Most of the time you can't find equipment or they simply do not have them. Facility is dirty. 

The attitude of the staff is so poor and unprofessional. Workers are vaping in the staffroom on shift.  Workers yell loudly and argue with one another -get disgruntled with their job. One worker was slamming down charts and kicking things around.  Staffing and assignments take forever to make pushing you far behind in your work and getting  home in a timely matter. 





Benefits were good, however pay is low, and there is no vacation or PTO. You work a grueling 70+ hour work week and all you have for is your seven days off however you are constantly called in to work on your off week because the company refuses to hire more prn workers to cover the gaps. Rotations are extremely short staffed and you are fighting all day to do the work of what should be multiple people and then you catch flack from the entire hospital when you get behind. Extra help is brought in occasionally help and they are offered incentives like bonuses and higher pay but full time employees don’t get squat. Management is terrible, supplies are always short, certain items needles are rationed because “they cost the company too much” which makes it harder on patients that require them causing them to get stuck more than necessary. It’s just bad. The whole phlebotomy department needs overhauled and I wouldn’t not recommend working there as a phlebotomist until changes are made. 

They do not pay adequately for what they have you doing. If someone quits, they expect you to do their job plus your own. Or, when 3 people quit, they want to do all 4 jobs with no additional pay. 

Also, if you are hired in at 9.00 /hr. You stay at that rate, no matter what. If you get your bachelors degree in that time, you stay at 9.00/hr. If someone who has no bachelors degree is hired a year or so after you, they will make more, by a couple dollars. You do get yearly raises though, and by that I mean, .03% of your pay. Although, they have been known to not even do that some years. Some people have been there for 20 years and are only making 10/hr due to getting paid the same rate since they were hired only advancing by the 10 cent raises yearly. This is not even enough to live on. 

I admit, I put up with it for a few years, until I was offered a job doing the same thing for double the pay at another employer. GRMC does not care about their employees. At. All.

Admin only cares about themselves and not making sure their departments are taken care of and have what they need like staffing, management, training resources, and equipment. The pay is a slap in the face for people with experience. There is no work-life balance due to working 7 on 7 off and being called in on your 7 off to work due to no staff. The hospital is filthy. Ants and all sorts of other bugs in patient rooms and the hallways. Poor attitudes and inappropriate comments about patients from nursing staff. Drama, Drama, Drama.  Security is a bunch of young kids who have no sense of responsibility when it comes to keeping patients, staff, and visitors safe. No disciplinary action is ever taken when it should be against problem employees. 

All in all, I wouldn't send my worst enemy to this hospital for care of any kind. By far the worst place I have ever had the misfortune to work in. 

This is a good company to work for. Better than most employer's I have had. I worked in a specific department, and we were treated very well by our supervisors and superiors,I had decent benefits and good co-workers. I honestly loved this job, but some corporate decisions were made that I didn't feel were fair or justified., mainly on the issue of payroll- an entire sub dept. got a 15%of their base pay raise , regardless of the experience - my branch of the dept- didn't even get our annual raises. Most people that worked on my floor had years of experience  and were in nursing school- But in conclusion other than the pay issue- this facility itself is an awesome place to work.

Management bullies you into taking an unsafe number of patients, 8 typically, regardless of acuity and I mean patients on heparin and telemetry. Lab will back time results that are timed studies which effects medications. High turnover rate. Insurance is expensive and doesn’t cover much. Management won’t even interview most candidates. They don’t care about employees. It’s sad to work for a hospital and if you were to have something happen you’d refuse to even let the doctors there treat you. I’ve watched them send patients to the floor who were unstable just to get them out of the ER. Insurance sucks and doesn’t cover much to be so expensive. Pay isn’t competitive. Base pay at a competing local hospital is more than the night shift with differential at GRMC.

I have been here for 16 years.  Worked very hard. Hardly ever called out sick even if I was. Rarely request vacation. Have been very loyal and dedicated to my "home" due to being there more of my awake hours than with my own family. I have gone out of my way almost daily to go far and beyond call of duty to provide the best atmosphere for our patients and their families. But it never fails.... People get recognized for being a "star" for doing far less than myself and other employees. Not a moral booster to say the least. Quick to point out your faults but slow if ever to recognize someone who is truly a STAR......kind of makes you not care enough to try anymore.  But that's not who I am.

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Travel nurse 5 salaries reported	$1,776 per week

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