registered nurse

patient care technician

clinical nurse coordinator

registered nurse - emergency room

psychiatric nurse

HCA HealthONE Aurora

I worked at this facility for 10 years and saw it go from a CNO and upper management team that cared about the employees to a group that only cares about the bottom line. Many benefits have been either taken away or decreased. The RN/CNA to pt ratios have been cut and the workload is extreme. You basically work from the moment you step in to past your end of shift running nonstop feeling like you are drowning, no breaks incl bathroom and no lunch. You are slammed with admissions and discharges w/o added help except to ensure that a dc is going home sometimes too soon in order for a bed to open up & you be immediately slammed with an admit even if you are drowning. You then are scolded for overtime bc yes, we love to work without breaks!! Med & supply rooms are cry rooms for even some of the toughest staff members. The newest management on the floors is awful! As fellow nurses, they should understand where the floor staff is coming from but instead, they are immature and have no idea what they are doing. I decided to leave after bringing a huge problem to one of the managers who replied that it didn't turn out to be a sentinel event so it was fine. Nothing was done about it. This was a new problem that happened several times and was only caught by good Rn's that literally prevented several accidental deaths! I knew my license was at risk as well as the lives of the people I cared for. NOT ok! You take "anonymous" surveys about your work environment and management so they can fix it (which they never do) but I strongly believe they know who is writing them and your reviews will reflect your poor attitude. I love bedside nursing and being able to help those in need but this facility makes it impossible when they continually call staff off and send them hm early if there is even a second of downtime. Management needs to understand, we are humans, we aren't just a beating heart there to fill a position. You are losing awesome staff members in all areas of the hospital due to greed. I would think you would save money in the end if you just treated your seasoned staff like they deserve instead of having to constantly train new staff. This is a place to get your experience if you have to but then run! There are far better places out there!!!

10+ years ago, TMCA was a great place to work. They offered great employee benefits and compensation and management actually cared about their employees not just the bottom line. It has went downhill from there. Benefits were being stripped one by one. After losing one of the last managers that actually cared and understood their employees, it became a toxic place to work. People have true anxiety leading up to their workday not knowing how understaffed and overworked it was going to be that day. Towards the end of my employment there, floor management was never around and when they were, it was just to do the obligatory asking of how it was going w/o any chance of helping fix the problems. If you did actually tell the truth instead of placing a Stepford wives smile on your face, your review would reflect your poor team attitude. The "anonymous" employer reviews appear not to be anonymous. It became a place that was unsafe to work and to be a patient and the blame was placed solely on the staff when something went wrong, which often did, and not the higher-ups that cut staff and nurse/CNA to pt ratios. After bringing several scary near events to the attention of my floor manager and the answer being that it didn't turn out to be a sentinel event so it was ok, I realized my patient's lives and my license were at jeopardy. You constantly felt like you were treading water and about to drown any second. You were lucky to get a lunch let alone a bathroom break in 12+ hours due to the workload and then you were dinged for not taking a lunch. There weren't break rooms, just cry rooms when staff would finally break down which happened multiple times a day. I loved working for the patient's of the Aurora community but could not stay another day after years of loyal service. After leaving, I realized I was just a beating heart. They could care less that I was gone and replaced me in a second w/o a "thank you for your service."  Management forgot about the people that make the place run. Numbers mean nothing when staff is unhappy and patient care standards fall......

Nurses at TMCA are treated as disposable. The nursing units are very understaffed - day shift on the ortho unit usually means 6 patients per nurse and each assignment will discharge and admit half or more of the patients during the shift; ICU nurses are frequently tripled.  New nurses are subjected to a contract where they are required to pay the hospital $10k if they leave within the first two years. Sign-on bonuses are abundant for experienced nurses. This is because the hospital cannot keep staff without these financial penalties. 

The hospital is very administrator-heavy and management is very removed from actual day-to-day operations and patient care.  There is no support for the nursing staff from management.

There are some very toxic work environments within TMCA nursing units.  Bullying is prevalent. Departments do not work together.  I've never been in such a bitter workplace.  People frequently use the incident reporting system as a weapon to "write you up" instead of as a system to track potential quality issues and look for improvement opportunities.  Quality improvement is not evident within TMCA - the focus on fall prevention, health care acquired infection prevent, and other measures of nursing quality are just missing. Somehow the hospital achieves Magnet status, but bedside nurses are certainly not empowered to make improvements and there is no shared governance.  Charge nurses are not selected from among the bedside nurses but are actually another level of management - they spend the shift running reports and going to meetings rather than helping with any patient care. It's a very surreal place to work as a nurse.

Since leaving, I have been working through staffing agencies at facilities all over the Denver metro area.  Every single nurse I have encountered who has ever worked at TMCA has nothing but negative things to say about their time there. I've never encountered that sort of reputation for a hospital among nurses before in my career.

When I started here over 2 years ago it was actually not a bad place, but as HCA always seems to do with style and pizzazz no less, they have killed this hospital. They do not follow their values by any means. It is all about money, whether it's how little they can pay staff RNs, how short they can run floors without people going on strike, or old unrepaired/broken equipment. The ICU consists almost completely of new grads teaching other new grads because they can't get anyone to stay beyond 2 years. The floors aren't much better either. Most of the equipment is in disrepair and nothing is done about it. Management will tell you that you can come to them with any concerns, then scold you for speaking your mind about unsafe patient ratios. Expect the lowest pay in Denver as a staff RN unless you can get a float pool position, which is paid an average of over 10$/hr more than staff RNs and are generally inappropriately used as if they were FT employees in 1 area. I have seen first hand poor outcomes for patients in this facility because of poor staffing due to management practices. They will also text page staff that there are bonuses for picking up extra and then tell you it wasn't approved by management.

I personally took a pay cut to get away from this disasterously poor excuse for a hospital if that says anything, stay in a galaxy far far away my friends...

There is a spirit of teamwork amongst the midwives. The midwives are involved in each others lives outside of work. Some of the midwives have been working together for upwards of 15 years or more. The midwives support each other in the clinical setting and outside of work, celebrating major life events and holidays together. There is acceptance of the profession of midwifery at the hospital. The midwives do about half of the hospital births each month.

Back-up physicians are accessible for consultation and (for the most part) embrace the midwifery philosophy.

There are challenges with nurses and communication with nurse midwives. Accessiblity of care for undocumented patients is somewhat limited if there are complications that require gyn procedures, repetitive ultrasounds, and/or psychosocial support within the hospital system and at times in the community.

The workplace environment is toxic . Floated to three areas of TMCA . The high ratio of staff to patients is geared towards profits and the staff get  burnt out quickly . Some Staff and managers are  miserable and take their anger out on new employees. HR does not support the employees who are being bullied by their managers and Leaders  . The some of the educators who have no experience are very demeaning and talk down to the new hires . I would not go here as an employee and especially a new one that is new to healthcare as there are much better places with a lot more vacation time. You have to wait 30 days before your benefits kick in which is unheard of for hospitals and you have to wait 3 months before you get a vacation. You are kind of forced to only use HCA hospitals and Dr  with the insurance they have or you have to pay a lot more  . They do not have a supportive parent leave program . You also get texts in the middle of the night . Not a very organized work place. Some people in leadership have their wires crossed and make matters a lot worse for the employees . 

Aurora Medical was the worst place I have ever worked. Upper management does not like pharm techs here. When the old mgr was here it was a great place to work but since it was taken over by this new mgr, it felt like I had to talk myself into going in, they don't care about the pharmacy technicians. In three years I have seen over twenty pharmacist leave, and even more pharmacy technicians than I count, I felt like they asked for more work than they were willing to pay for because they try to work to short staffed. . Not focused on the importance of the patient more for saving a buck. They constantly had to borrow meds from other facilities and some patients even had to order their own through separate entities. Although I did work with some great people and met some great friends that made it a little better but not because management built a great team, just that we had a lot to talk about because we didn't like the new manager so much. If I could have I would have gave management a minus 5.

"The adult inpatient Behavioral Health Unit is a 40-bed psychiatric treatment unit for persons ages 18-55 who are experiencing a behavioral health crisis and can benefit from short-term intensive treatment. The unit is dedicated to providing state-of-the-art psychiatric care so that you/your loved ones can experience top quality treatment and care.

What behavioral health problems does the acute unit treat?
Severe depression
Suicidal thoughts/behaviors
Schizophrenia
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
Bipolar Disorder
Personality Disorders
Anxiety/panic disorder
Obsessive-compulsive disorder
Many other severely impairing psychiatric conditions
What type of therapies are provided?

Psychiatric evaluation and treatment
Group therapy
Recreational therapy
Occupational therapy
Family conferences
Medication and illness education
Enhancing coping skills"

This management and staff is very immature.  They make personal vendetta's against staff members.  There is no collaborative teamwork and team building. More like destroying and pitting one person against another. There is no concern for eachother s health age or cultural difference.  Rumor filled distracting junk.  Anything goes and policies are constantly done by anyone's interpretation. Bunch of micromanagers with their own agendas right down to the cna s. Total unprofessionalism.

Constant threats of loosing your job and no one seems to know how to transfer a patient when it comes a time to toilet a patient. 

Nurses are constantly doing their own thing and are relentless in justifying early discharge.

Lowiest paying zoo of a job that lacks cooperation. 
Miserable job.

Patients are always in the dark about their discharge.

I worked as a Paramedic, when I started it was great working in the ED but the  it quickly wore off. They talk how they have a great "culture". That culture included nurses dumping all patient care on the Paramedic. It included then tolerating nurses telling medics they are "slaves and inferior to nurses" and lastly and most concerning is they tolerated complaints of nurses smelling of alcohol and exhibiting signs of withdrawal symptoms and by the way that nurse still works in the ED. Also some concerning things that never made it out is that there was a staff member that was diverting narcotic drugs from the pyxis for over a year and injecting himself while taking care of patients and a nurse that was forging prescriptions. So if you want to be treated like a slave and worry about if your coworkers are intoxicated then this is the place for you.

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