registered nurse

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OhioHealth

I worked here for quite a few years. The company has no problem fixing problems that are non-existent but lacks actual knowledge of problems that need addressed. Management has zero clinical education, yet makes decisions for clinical staffing. The raises are sub par at best and only time off is accrued as you work. Market adjustments and bonuses only happen if staffing is terrible to save face and they have no problem with you working in unsafe patient ratios. If a sentinel event happens, it's never how it can be fixed, but rather throwing the overworked/understaffed staff under the bus. 

There are tons of educational things that are required and expected and yet none of it seems to track for the job you're actually doing. Upper management has completely lost touch with what healthcare is suppose to be about. Cheapest supplies, cheapest equipment and you have to make due with what you're dealt. They're too busy pinching pennies to build new towers and buildings that can't be staffed rather than investing in the loyal staff they have. 

There always seems to be some sort of issue arising no matter the department and when management asks how to fix it, opinions are given, yet they don't listen and they proceed to try things that have failed several times prior. 

The morale is terrible and you can just see on everyone's faces as you walk through the halls how burnt out the staff is and many will openly admit they don't want to work there anymore as amenities and any motivation to work hard is taken away. 

In short, this company only cares about 1 thing, ive been subject of management playing favorites or treating similar situations in staffing issues unfairly. It's very liberal/political in the way things are handled. And if this isn't enough, don't worry, they'll find a way to take away some sort of pay incentive. One way or another this company will crush your will to provide patient care one way or another. 

My peers were wonderful and a great team. But the corporation type tyranny ruins any and all positivity this work environment provides. 

While the job is not particularly stressful, it is very tiring and very physical. It leaves very little energy for anything else when I get home, even on a 8.5 hour shift.

Pay is a major issue, as the raises are always less than the yearly cost of living increase. E.g. if cost of living goes up by 3.5%, expect a raise of 2%; if it goes up by 8% (as it did last year), expect a raise of 3%. They attempt to hoodwink and appease with end of the year bonuses, but for a full year of work (around 2500 hours with overtime) a $500 bonus only accounts for 20 cents on a hour before taxes. It took over half of my department quitting during the pandemic to even get a real raise on the table, and even then it was just two dollars to the base pay.

Furthermore, with the recent changes in the law regarding insurance (the "No Surprises Act"), they chose to remove the cap on out of pocket for out of network providers. Since OhioHealth provides its own brand of insurance (OhioHealthy), the network of doctors that are available are dismally small and not even half the specialists that work with OhioHealth even accept their insurance.

So if you have any health issues that require reliable and routine healthcare to manage, you are almost forced to go out of network due to poor availability. This was fine up until this year, as I could manage the hefty but not unreasonable out of pocket limit of $4700. Having removed the cap I am now paying for insurance that I can not use as the doctors of the speciality I need that are accepting new clients within the system do not accept our insurance. If that seems paradoxical, just know that they consider all doctors that work with or for OhioHealth as "in network", and will direct you to them, regardless of if they actually accept OhioHealthy insurance. I learned that the hard way.

How OhioHealth is ranked as one of Fortune Magazines top 100 companies is beyond me.  They promote themselves as a company that appreciates its employees and encourages them to spend time with their families but that is the furthest thing from the truth. With this new Epic install, employees are getting burned out and dropping like flies.  They're having a difficult time hiring people (from hourly employees to physicians) and I suspect it's because word has gotten out that this company is NOT what it promotes itself to be. With this Epic install, the expectation is you will put your private life on hold for however long it takes.  In some cases, the employees working on the Epic team have been told they will be forbidden from taking any vacation time until 2016. Family life/job work balance?  No way!  Anyone considering hiring on as part of the Epic team (or any OhioHealth job for that matter) should ask a LOT of questions during their interview to find out all the requirements and expectations because believe me, they don't voluntarily share with you that the atmosphere is like a sweat shop. As far as compensation, the pay is decent however there is no incentive for doing the best job possible.  Their pay raises are a flat 3% so whether you do an awesome job or are a real slacker, you all get the same raise. (This is probably different for management and physicians but I'm not privy to that information so I can't say for sure.) I've seen people that in any other company would have been fired in a heartbeat because of their poor work ethic however it's tolerated at OhioHealth. That leads to a lot of frustration within the workplace because it appears that they're so desperate for people, they tolerate just about anything.

staff frequently sent home early or called off due to "productivity" even though it creates dangerous staffing levels for patients currently under the care of departments.  when sent home early or called off staff are forced to use vacation time to meet weekly financial needs.  staff lose hours, departments are always short staffed and working at dangerous staffing levels with nurses taking on more patients than they can safely care for. staffing turnover rates are at a ridiculously high level with a high number of nurses and techs leaving due to management and increased stress levels due to poor and dangerous staffing conditions. managers out for bonuses not patient care. Managers bonuses get larger the shorter staffed they make their departments. staff provide ideas, but, managers do not listen and what the managers decide is the way things are done. managers are hardly ever seen in departments until associate satisfaction surveys are to be done and are completed then managers mysteriously appear in the departments more and pretend like they care or are trying to improve things, but, really do not care as they blow off concerns or ideas of staff members. managers refuse to come in to help during staffing emergencies to assist with patient care and some have even turned off their cell phones when the are on call so they are not bothered at home. ohiohealth does not show trust in their entire staff and do not use any of their medically trained staff to their full potential. Managers do not know how to schedule departments despite computerized self scheduling of staff that is supposed to eliminate scheduling issues. If all of the management staff were terminated and the actual staff doing the work were running the show, ohiohealth would be a perfect place to work and to go to as a patient.

I started working for OhioHealth as a surgical technologist in Labor and Delivery while attending school for nursing. My career path was from LPN to RN and I worked nights in L&D  doing two 12-hour shifts part-time. I enjoyed the work I did as a surgical tech assisting in C-sections and as support to the unit with other duties such as stocking rooms and sending lab work to the lab, etc.. My co-workers were amazing! I have nothing bad to say about anyone in particular. I spent 2 years doing this while doing pre-req's and finishing my LPN certificate. When I applied to one of the med-surg floors to work as an LPN, I was offered a lot less than what I was making as a surgical technologist. I do understand that I worked nights and lost my shift-diff when moving form night-shift to day-shift but I had also put in 2 more years of school and earned a license to practice as a Practical Nurse. I was offered $1.36 less than my base hourly rate as a surgical technologist in L&D, final offer. Not to mention losing a $3.50 shift-diff for working nights and $3.50 when I worked weekends for a total of $8.36 less per hour including that $1.36 less per hour. For the amount of work that both RN's and LPN's have to do in the hospital, how is this fair? My job as a surgical tech in L&D was 10X easier and less exhausting that nursing!

I did not work on the med-surg floor more than 3 months before I took another job at a different hospital working in Labor and Delivery as a surgical technologist again making $28.10/hr. and I still enjoy it better than nursing.
 
Anyway, I continued with my schooling and will be finished with my RN in the spring but I plan to stay in L&D where I can still scrub, circulate, baby nurse and labor nurse. I'll get a little more of a variety in my work and I will never be bored. Hopefully the compensation adds up this time or I'll be forced to go for a masters in something. 

Collect instruments and clean, sort, assemble, sterilize and get ready for surgery. A normal day could consist of doing 30 to 50 sets in an 8hr shift. I learn all of the orthopaedic sets, the names of ec instruments what they were used for and the cost of them. my co-workers were not use to change they were pretty much vets and I ws actually the youngest and the last in the door. I worked with 7 other ladies who were not very accepting to a newcomer like myself who ws willing to learn new things and had a strong desire to learn more. I never felt a part of the unit even though I worked there 10 years. I got the 7year icth and decided withthe recomendation of my manager to find another skill in the medical field that would help me with advancement and to give me a change so I decided on year #7 to go back to school for Medical Insurance Billing & Coding. I continued to work at the Bone & Joint for 2 years after finishing school in hopes of transferring into a position with countless applications and letters from my manager and director I finally was promoted to another Hospital within, Dublin Methodist as a Surgery Acquisition Coordinator. The hardest part of the Bone & Joint center was there were days when we would have mandatory crisis where emergent surgerys cases added on and we would be short handed and may have to stay many hours over. The best part of the job for me was my paycheck and knowing I was appreciated from my peers and upper management, and it was recognized.

I wanted to grow my career with OhioHealth, but unfortunately they did not share this same sentiment. I pursued a master's degree while working here and received very little/no support for post-graduate opportunities & promotions. My role was unexpectedly made permanently work-from-home, and this was a huge detriment to my mental health - not to mention career advancement & networking opportunities.

They have recruiters, and I didn't ever receive proactive support or help from them. I only interacted with them to screen for positions I had already applied to. On more than one occasion, I was told that my degree (healthcare administration) wasn't going to get me far and that working from home was a disadvantage for me. I didn't get considered for any of the multi-dozen jobs I applied to, despite my near 5-year tenure with the org.  

My overall satisfaction was really good, I understand the market is competitive. This was until my health/mental health took a turn and I started clocking in late, having call-offs, etc. I was let go from the company due to their absence/tardiness policy - this is fair, they have a standard to uphold. I just generally did not feel supported or integrated after everything went to work from home. My work life was generally unsupported and autonomous, as my manager was in constant meetings. We sometimes had team-building activities to reconnect in-person, but it just ultimately isn't the same. The culture changed for the worse post-COVID. I feel betrayed and not represented as a loyal employee. 

Glad I'm gone.  No way I'd work there again.  Benefits were pretty good for healthcare, and they were pretty good with pay scale. My manager was a nice person, but favored employees who ghosted their jobs (took credit for others work, and appeared good).  Manager also promised work from home, but refused to give work from home in bad weather, then herself took work from home time.  Really frustrating!  Team was okay, but the zombies rule there, people aren't encouraged to dig deep for answers, but rather just maintain status quo.  Some employees spend their days watching youtube videos.  Meetings are held and no one says anything because all ideas are shot down.  Quality of work life has zero meaning there.  No sense of team, or community.  They also hire the fresh college grad to run whole departments and they have no management skills.  So they make bad decisions.  Instead of helping them, they promote them.  So now some other department is screwed.  Even if you have great experience for a role and ask for a chance to discuss the position, you can't get an interview.  They favor their pals only, even if it means failure for whole departments.  Then they wonder why people leave?  Please.  And the top 100 place to work thing is hilarious.  The employees face long meetings, additional work, and tedious meaningless follow up one on ones with managers if they don't vote positively, so the employees all laugh about it and just vote for it so they don't have to have more meetings.

Being an avid Ohiohealth consumer,  I was thrilled at the prospect of being employed by a company I had great respect for.   Sadly, my view has completely changed.   It is a business,  no different than any other, looking to make the profit.   
They excite new staff with great benefits and what should be great training.  The training is not near what you're told.  If you don't fit in the cliques,  you can be sure you'll be singled out, and everything you do will be critically judged, then pointed out in front of all other coworkers.   You will be talked down to, and be expected to keep your mouth closed...because after all, you are the employee and you signed up for it by going to work for them...that's how they see it.  You never get positive comments about your work, only negatives.  The new employees got buried while the more experienced nurses sit back and watch you fight to keep your head above water.  The only help you will get is from other newer nurses because they feel the struggle.   
When you ask during the hiring process why there is a need to hire so many nurses constantly and the response is because people move up in the company.   That is a blatant lie.  People quit because they hate the environment,  the culture,  the overwhelming patient to nurse ratios, and on it goes.  
I'm sorry I worked for this company because now I don't want to even be a patient because all of these things affect patient care.  Not what nursing is supposed to be.   I hated working for this company.  

One of the main reasons I stayed at Ohio health for so long was because of the relationships I had built with the nurses during busy summer trauma nights with terrible staffing. Besides that nothing else was really positive. Because of the work conditions many of the nurses and nurses aids became resentful and miserable to work around because of their negativity. Negativity is contagious and it spreads rapidly and that wears on you and changes you. If you are a great staff member and outgoing you could be looked at as a threat and someone will get in the way of your goals and dreams by playing the management game. Most of the time they pre-select who they’re going to hire, but “go through the interview process as a formality”. I can state this verbatim, because it was it was said to me and l have seen it happen more than a few times. Lastly, I switched to a new hospital and they match 16% for retirement verses OhioHealth’s 1-3% match. Although l wouldn’t take away my experience gained and my experiences at OhioHealth… I wish I would have left after a year or two so that I would have felt safer taking care of patients, able to spend more time with my patients instead of being rushed, able to feel valued, and lastly, able to retire on time comfortably.

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Registered nurse 10 salaries reported	$37.30 per hour
Patient assistant 7 salaries reported	$17.64 per hour
Health screener 15 salaries reported	$42.67 per hour
Manager 4 salaries reported	$87,000 per year
Service associate 5 salaries reported	$18.22 per hour

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