registered nurse

temperature screener

erp analyst

registered nurse - medical / surgical

social worker

Halifax Health

On the positive side, I learned a lot from my coworkers and received support and knowledge from a collaborative team.
No one loves their boss. Let's be real. However, Halifax's administration creates a hostile and unsafe environment for staff and patients. If you have a clinical license, beware. I worked at Halifax Health for over more than five years. The majority of the team were intelligent, caring, and attempted to do the best they could. In an environment where you hit brick walls, preventing you from performing safe and adequate care. Number one issue. If your leadership is not encouraging or does not emphasize supporting your staff's education and training, good people leave. The turnover in my department was exceptionally high.
I've worked for several companies (not just healthcare). If your company received unsatisfactory client evaluations and adverse outcomes, the first thing to do was look at systems and management. Halifax administration appeared to do the opposite. Supervisors used tactics such as threats and intimidation until employees were forced out or fired. If you join this company, be aware that it is common to have your clinical license threatened. I wish I could say this is unique to my department. Unfortunately, this is an issue rife within the company, knowing several colleagues that work in various departments. If staff went to management for staffing or employee safety concerns, they were brushed off or told that it was "part of the job." Halifax Health touts safety as a number one priority; however, that is not the case. The administration appears to be more concerned with job security. There is a great deal of cronyism in several levels of administration. It does not matter your dedication to serving in healthcare or how well your patients and staff respect you. The bottom line seems to be the highest priority. I am well aware of healthcare systems being business-oriented; this hospital stands out in its degree of punishing honest caregivers and staff.  This hospital is a terrible and traumatic place for a new grad.  I learned a lot from my coworkers and received support and knowledge from a collaborative team.
However, because of recent retaliatory methods in my department, many of the team have left. Some of the most brilliant and qualified individuals were either terminated or "pushed out." Halifax Health is a terrible and traumatic place for an RN new grad. You can learn bad habits and tactics reinforced or ignored by management. At the same time, serious issues are pushed under the rug or not addressed. New grads beware! You sign a contract. Sign-on bonuses for nursing staff are not distributed profitably. There are so many other options that can keep your license intact. At the same time, you can gain a useful and positive educational experience at other facilities. With that said, the most enjoyable part of my job was caring for the patients and interacting and educating family members. Although my time there is done, the comments and awards I have received due to patient and family recommendations will forever remain in my heart. 

You’ll be sold this extravagant story about being able to work at the counties only level 2 trauma center and how that’s a great thing for the community and how much they support this initiative and that program, but it’s all pretty much a game. Patient care is a joke. Staffing is nonexistent and that was pre-covid. The equipment is either broken, being repaired, or floated to another unit. You’ll receive no formal training after onboarding and be questioned when you ask for assistance as to why you don’t know how to do said task. Management is clearly nonexistent as well, always busy in meetings with each other  or unavailable to staff for a variety of reasons. If you ask about the availability of benefits like tuition assistance or certain grants they offer the answer is always the same oh this year the budget doesn’t allow for it or please see your immediate supervisor (which as stated above is next to impossible). Bottom line, they only want bodies and people to take blame if something goes sideways (which is always seems to). Don’t come here unless you actually understand what that means because as a Nurse or Tech you will be abused, over committed, and burnt out within weeks. Plus, the pay is horrible. Lowest in the county.... of one of the lowest paying states! It’s sad because when I started here I thought we were making a difference, but it didn’t take long to realize the lies they sell to get people to work here.

Halifax is a decent place to work. Unfortunately, there is so much room for Halifax to be a better employer. I have worked here over 3 years and have seen quite a bit. First and foremost, the number one issue is management. There is zero communication and the only way that you learn a policy or rule has changed is when you get an email from a manager or supervisor stating you've violated said policy. Also, no effort is made to ensure employee retention. Generally the work day starts off clocking in and going to your assigned work area. Sometimes you get a break, sometimes you don't. Policy states mandatory breaks but since we're understaffed several days a week, we can't always take one, and to top it all off, we're reprimanded verbally and threatened with write-ups if we don't take them. The most enjoyable part is resolving issues cause by insurance companies, patient error, or just general miscommunication. Working with patients The people I work with on a daily basis are great to be around and help the day go by. Everyone you work with is willing to help as long as you are.

Priorities are in the wrong place. Should be more about patient care, instead of new bulletin boards on the highway ect. Higher up keeps decreasing department budget and patient care vs. therapists are not fair. They put therapists in situations that could put license in jeopardy, and will not back them up. Only to make them feel as if they are doing something wrong. Yes, they may have the biggest ED around, but only stock one therapist  per shift. Been in situations where multiple problems came in at the same time. Yes, you can call another therapist to help you, but that is if they are free. Its a good place to get exposure to many things, and be independent, because you are on your own most of the time.  Also have had way to many ventilators to myself fifteen is way to much for one person. Looking for pat on back and told you are doing a good job? Don't look for it here, but make one mistake with anything and they will be right there to tell you, and issues are small. I'm not saying to not talk to others about things that need to be addressed, I am just saying to make your professionals feel needed and appreciated. Pay is low.

I began working at Halifax Hospice as a supportive care nurse, meaning I would either sit at bedside in facility or in home setting, then I worked as Team Relief nurse, going from house to house setting up pill boxes, vital signs, general assessments, wound care, injections, blood draws. From this position I went to the new Hospice Care Center. I was a floor nurse taking care of up to 6 patients, these were critical patients, at times a patient would bleed out at other times patients were basically stable. I was in constant contact with out Team Leader or the Care Center MD. I learned alot about how to handle emergent situations, respiratory crisis, or imminent patients and their family. There was alot of family inneraction. The hardest part of the job was at times we would have multiple admissions, a patient in crisis and you needed to handle it in a professional manner. The most enjoyable part was being there for the patients who were imminent, also being there for the families who were going through such difficult times and sometimes it just took listening.

Working in the laboratory seemed great at first, but all good things came to an end quickly. Phlebotomist were overworked and never got breaks, pulling full 12 hrs+ like CNA/RN's. Got in trouble whenever we wouldn't take breaks, yet there was never time for us to take any. The saying was that it doesn't matter how long we spend with a patient to get their blood sample as long as we were able to get it without complications. That changed as well and we were getting criticized for not having our floors done within 2/3 hours. Which most floors meant we had 20+ patients to draw, most included 4 count draws or more. We were told that we could talk to our supervisors and management about anything, and yet whenever the "timing" wasn't correct for them, our concerns were nothing but dust in the wind. You're wrong for wanting time off or even a day to yourself which you're entitled to, ever being actually sick or not able to stay late every single time they are short handed. Which is mostly every day. To them you are a body to do the job and a number for a paycheck. You're not a human, more like a robot. 

Halifax Health is a great place to work! It is currently ranked #2 in the nation Best Places to Work in IT by COMPUTERWORLD 2016. The hospital is great and they really care about your career development. The offer continuing education compensation and maintain a training budget for each employee to keep you up to date on all things IT.
All team members at this Daytona Beach, Fla., healthcare provider are offered annual health assessments at no cost. Other health-related perks and amenities include free gym memberships, wellness classes, opportunities to participate in walking and running races and a Friday morning health food marketplace. An annual reorientation program called Cornerstone helps employees connect their jobs to Halifax's overall mission. For example, after participating in the program, a server administrator who might not interact directly with patients can make the connection between server up-time and Halifax's goal of exceptional service at every encounter.

I have cared for patients that were near death 8 hr. shifts. I have cared for pts. in homes & facilities. Made several visits per day to both as well. Love meeting & caring for people. Most people loved my care. Under paid & very poor yearly raises 15 - 20 cents if you even get one. I worked for this company for 7yrs. 3 of the years none of us got a raise. Probably so they could build & open a new care center. Very stressful job because of upper management treating their employees with so much disrespect. Upper management wants the patients cared for but doesn't give enough time per visit to care for properly. Very strict on overtime. Upper management had employees working off the clock until they got busted by the board of labor. If there weren't enough pts. for a days work upper management asked us to clock out & go shopping or run our errands then clock back in to finish the day. Most co-workers very friendly & nice to work with but all over stressed.

This is the lowest paying hospital in central florida. Not only do they pay really low, they try to overwork their staff, run short on crucial supplies, and the benefits are atrocious. They're so short on nurses that they want their nurses to work overtime, 4-6 days a week. They try to discourage leaving to be a traveler, and created an overtime contract which is still pennies compared to traveling and you're overworking yourself in the process. If you don't take a break, you get in trouble for not clocking out and get harassed because of it by management. It's easier to state you took a lunch when you clock out than being honest if you really didn't get a chance to. At this point, many nurse residents are breaking their contracts to travel because it's worth paying the penalty than staying there the full 2 years. There's an extremely high turnover rate for a reason. 

Listen, this is a good place to begin your career and I am so grateful for all that I learned (the good and the bad) and opportunities working at Halifax gave me. There are/were some people there 100% committed to the mission and genuinely helping people. That being said, management was (when I worked there) so incredibly toxic. I had no idea just how bad it was while I was there until I left and joined an organization where those kinds of behaviors and incestuous hierarchies weren't the norm. Halifax is all about who you know and there are different rules that are applied differently depending on where you are on the relationship map. Again, so grateful for getting my career off the ground and learning and growing so much, but know when to leave before the toxic people corrode you too.

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