North-Alabama-Shoals-Hospital

What is the best part of working at the company?
The patients and their families 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
The administration they were always condescending, they would place everyone in a position to backbite each other. No support from administration. This is evident in not being able to keep a manager. Also, the administration would reprimand you but not tell you specifically what you have done. Administration would place more stress on the managers. 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Hostile work environment and the culture was nonexistent. 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Stressful!! I would arrive about 745 and hit the ground running, meeting after meeting, comity after comity. Then they expected you to work on the floor all while trying to meet the needs of administration and your employees. As a manager you had to complete the schedule. They used the term interim manager with less pay.

Working at North Alabama Shoals Hospital has been a valuable experience that has allowed me to grow both personally and professionally. The environment is fast-paced but rewarding, and I have learned a lot from working alongside dedicated healthcare professionals. The staff members I have worked with are supportive, caring, and committed to providing quality care to patients. Every day brings new challenges and opportunities to improve my skills and knowledge. The hospital provides a place where teamwork and communication are important, and I appreciate being part of a team that makes a difference in people’s lives. While healthcare can be demanding, the experience has helped me become more confident, responsible, and compassionate in my role. I am grateful for the experiences and connections I have gained while working at North Alabama Shoals Hospital.

Dietary department is poorly managed. They do not appreciate you at all. They sit on their butts an never lift a finger to help. They will hire you for a position that you applied for and then change your schedule and have you work another position that has different hours, but will say your pay is the same. If that is the position they wanted that is what they would have applied for right? They try and force you to work double shifts so they won’t have to come in and work them. And they wonder why they have such a high turnover rate. They care more about cafe/staff food than the patients meals. The patient definitely does not come first in that department. 

I worked at this facility for the last eleven years on a medical surgical unit.  For the most part it was very stressful, mainly due to inadequate staffing.  There were very high expectations and not enough resources to fulfill these expectations.  Many days we ended up with a very high patient to nurse ratio.  I can remember so many days caring for up to ten and eleven patients for one nurse.  There was not enough help from higher management to remedy this problem.  In summary I felt this particular unit was unsafe both for patient and nurse.

My nurses are amazing, but management is lacking. It seems my unit is the only one where techs are required to do so much. Techs from other units get pulled to ours all the time and say things like "I don't know how to put someone on a bedpan" "I don't know how to give a shower". 32 patients to ONE tech a majority of the time. 4-5 nurses, and some don't answer lights. Management is aware. Doesn't care. You can work 12+ hours and not sit down once, yet still get told you aren't doing enough. Pay is great...if you're brand new at this. Newbies get paid just about as much as certified, VERY experienced techs. Highly unfair. Looking for other jobs asap. 

This hospital  is understaffed on the med surg floors.  No nursing assistants, no secretaries on majority of days.   They accept a patient population that they advertise the facility was  specialized in and  do not have a clue how to successfully treat these patients.    The environment is not safe for the niursing staff or patients.    I voiced my concerns multiple times to both managers and supervisors.   These concerns were always ignored.     No one should ever have to go to work and fear for their patients’  and their own physical safety.   Worse nursing job I have ever had.   

My day usually stays out with a thousand things that need attention all at one time so it looks chaotic at first and then I begin chipping away at the most urgent matters first and slowly get everything headed in its proper direction and hopefully everything is cleared by the time I click out. Some times it feels overwhelming but I'm learning a lot and sleeping very well. 

The best thing is the wonderful nurses you work with! Downside is the supervisor and management! They are all about money and don’t value their workers! They also make techs work sometimes with way more people per tech than you should! And have ways around telling main company that owns it that they are staffed with the amount they should have! When I worked there years ago! We had great management and supervisors! It has went down

Mostly enjoyable depending on staff managers help friends you can't take any education classes only cpr so don't hope to grow too many patients per nurse they will send you help when there not needed then they will leave as soon as they need to work. The manager an supervisor knows less than you if you've been a nurse a year anywhere. No advancement less your there friend 

I enjoy my coworkers however I am looking for a little less responsibility that doesn’t include 3 departments 
I am currently overseeing a geriatric. Psych , med surg and icu ... I enjoy the management aspect but juggling to get the schedule covered is becoming difficult and I am working lots of hours

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