registered nurse

respiratory therapist

medical technologist

senior laboratory assistant

radiologic technologist

Palmetto General Hospital

I really enjoy working at Palmetto, been there for over 8 years, however, I have slowly seen it decline regarding benefits, personnel, and spreading nurses too thin. Our pay is very competitive an up to par with the rest of the hospitals in the area, no complaints regarding the pay. The problem here is that they are constantly tightening up the assignments and cancelling or putting nurses on call when the floors are full. Management pressures you to send people home early if patients are discharged when in reality....It is very uncertain the fact that a bunch of new admissions can come in 10 minutes after you send the nurse home and you are left with no nurses to take on the assignment. CNA's are very scarce and when the RN has 8 patients it becomes overwhelming not to have the nurses' aide, as charge nurse you must take on patients at times, and this would be ok if it wasn't for the fact that by having your own assignment you may no longer continue to be the resource nurse to the rest of the staff since you have sometimes to also fill for secretarial duties and taking care of the charge duties. Our benefits used to be amazing, not anymore, health insurance plans are through the roof in costs. It used to be that if you had the most expensive plans you had no deductibles regarding hospital admissions, now, added to the increase in costs a $500 is required if admitted regardless of the plan you have. The company has also decided to contribute to our 401K whatever they want, so you no longer know how much or if they would even contribute, basically you are the only contributor to your 401K for all we know.  

Good place to start if you are a great multitasker, you will have to perform duties of 3 or 4 different staff to make sure your floor runs accordingly. Lack of management support, even when extremely busy most of them won’t help, obviously there are a few exceptions. No respect, but then again if staff will take it to ethics compliance officers this will not happen, but due to being scare from retaliation from management this culture is hard to break. A few good managers are awesome to work with, there are great nurses working here & that makes the work environment tolerable. This hospital has a lot of potential to grow if the many rotten apples are removed from certain positions. Directors and managers need to have real life experience on patient care. Just because you have a degree doesn’t mean you are qualified to run a unit. Certain people have been placed in positions because they were liked by upper management not solely due to knowledge and experience. Many nurses with experience and degrees were ran out because they did not agree on how things were ran or were not liked enough, therefore became a threat. Hopefully things will change in the near future with this facility. 

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What is the best part of working at the company?
Excellent place to work, very nice coworkers and supportive supervisor 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
if you follow the rules and you love what you do there is not stressful part in any company that you work

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Palmetto Hospital is located in the city that has a very wide multicultural options and you can find that in the hospital , Everybody with  good relationships.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
as soon as I arrive to the office, I checked the orders for the different time of the procedures. Have a good interaction and communication with doctors, nurses and other text and do my job. I really feel very well in this place.

What is the best part of working at the company?
The nurses work as a team.  Quality care is provided to the patients.

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
The upper management and HR do not care about the staff. Theres no urgency in helping staff and they throw you away too easily during rough times for the company. They do not take care of their own at all and lie to the staff.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Amongst the staff it is great. Team oriented and patient focused. The upper management and HR cut throat and no problem throwing you out with the trash. 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Hard work, caring for pts. and working as a team.

Calculate, prepare, and issue bills, invoices, account statements, and other financial statements according to established procedures.

Code documents according to company procedures.

Review time sheets, work charts, wage computation, and other information to detect and reconcile payroll discrepancies.

Verify attendance, hours work and pay adjustments and post information onto designated records.

Compute wages and deductions, and enter data into computers.

Record employee information, such as exemptions, transfers, and resignations, to maintain and update payroll records.

In the Emergency room there is great respect between doctors and staff.

Working alone overnights, I needed to learn how to resolve issues without a supervisor, find ways to manage the heavy workload by myself. Prioritize the work.

I needed to adjust to the Latin culture.  I like it.

Being the only xray tech in hospital overnight, at times, becomes overwhelming when they start adding stat xrays on the floors.

The enjoyable part is having fun with staff and patients.

Understaffed to the point of compromising patient safety on a daily basis. No help from administration. High patient acuity with patients who are critical and do not meet criteria to be on our floor. 1:7 patient ratio but because it also serves as an observation unit there are a high amount of admissions and discharges and so you can have anywhere between 6-10 patients a shift. CNA's are 1:13 ratio but again, they can have anywhere between 13-18 patients a shift. There is no loyalty and no camaraderie.

This was a great place to work. We worked as a team and as a family. I learned a lot from each and every person I worked with. Management was  pro physcians. The hardest part was proving yourself. Letting everyone know you are a good nurse and any doctor could work with you and trust their patients would be under good care. The most enjoyable is that there was a mix of cultures, although Hispanic was the majority  but you never felt any prejuidices. 

What is the best part of working at the company?
working with people from your own country.

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
work flow and pushy manager that care more about numbers than patients.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
stressful, specially when they are trying all the time to get patients out of the rooms to make space for new ones.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
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Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Registered nurse 13 salaries reported	$36.62 per hour
Respiratory therapist 3 salaries reported	$32.19 per hour
Medical technologist 2 salaries reported	$27.86 per hour
Senior laboratory assistant 1 salary reported	$19.00 per hour
Radiologic technologist 1 salary reported	$32.00 per hour

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