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Disappointed at how my new-grad position was mismanaged. I learned how to run the entire workings of an echo cardiology lab, from in-coming interdepartmental calls for scheduling, to performing all cardiac sonography examinations while carrying a pager-on-call, responsible for covering the out-patient schedule, while having to respond to calls for TEE surgery, emergency room and ICU and then to complete the day, usually after hours to perform any in-patient echo requisitions for cardiologists to read the following day, when patients were not readily available according to dinner and bathing and visitation and sleeping time.
The only person available to train me was a traveling tech who had no interest in my obtaining the necessary hands-on training that I was assured.  He was written up for non-compliance through rude, abrupt and pushy behaviour with patients and nurses and nurse administrators, although he provided everything required to keep the  cardiologists happy with his work.  I was terminated just before my 30 days of probation, just before my union membership would have been granted, within a week after

The hardest part of my job was lack of support and communication from the manager, the traveling tech and the back-up tech, who also made himself unavailable, as he had been turned down after applying for the full-time position that I had been hired for.  The hardest task was that I was expected to take on the full-time responsibilities of the entire schedule, to run the entire workings of the echo lab as the solo employee in my capacity of newly graduated and first-time intern clinical trainee cardiac sonographer, after this traveler was terminated within three weeks when the manager took leave for a week with voicemail and cell phone completely unavailable to take calls, or even messages.  
The most enjoyable part of the job was having all the exposure to and learning all the aspects required to keep an echo lab running.  I enjoyed the opportunity I was given and I enjoyed the input and encouragement from the two cardiologists I worked with that spent most time in the hospital and the nurses and even the traveler tech., when he was not overly stressed out from trying to complete his schedule before the end of a normal work-day.  Even the back-up tech. came in to bail me out and help me during the final weekend I was there alone, asking for help when my moving truck arrived with the rest of my belongings to settle in the area and the following day the parting comment I received from the manager was that I had made a heroic attempt and that I was so close to being able to keep things running alone, which was re-iterated by the back-up tech.!

Providence Medford Medical center is overall a good place to work. The people are nice, people actually talk and interact with one another. 

However, the dietary department is a mess. Short-staffed, overworked, under-appreciated and often jerked around. Overall, people in the is department are not extremely happy. I felt overworked with little help. My repsonsibilities ranged from washing pots and pans to serving in the cafetaria and rarely was I helped eventhough everyone was supposed to when they could. I often had to skip breaks in order to get my work done. I would be chastised if I didn't finish all my work. Additionally I had 1 day of training before being thrown into the mess. I didn't get my work done if I worked too slow then I would be reprimanded when I worked to fast. Couldn't seem to win.

There seems to be a lot of injuries here as well. More than any other placed I've worked. I'm not sure why but a lot of shoulder, back and wrist injuries. They work you into the ground then hire someone else. If you're On-Call then be prepared to work 6+ days straight. They are always sorthanded because it seems like someone calls in every day. They cant seem to keep people, especially pot-washers and chefs.

Management is not very good. The manager Donna is nice enough but I never felt like she had my back. She never stuck up for me. In her defense she would help others when shorthanded, whether it was washing dishes or delivering carts but she never made my job easier- in fact, she made it harder by adding more and more responsibilities. The only times I was able to take all 3 of my breaks (which are required by Oregon law by the way) was on the weekends when it was slower. She never made my jobs easier or did anything about my concerns or complaints. In one ear and out the other. 

The director is unfortunately worse. Karen is very nice to your face but very political. You cannot trust her at all. She will screw you over in a heartbeat if it's in her best interest. I know she has given former employees bad references when they tried to obtain better jobs elsewhere in order to keep them in dietary. She will also have her management friends not hire her employees (often being told its an ambiguous "hiring freeze") for the same purpose. She is pleasent but typical upper-management and cannot be trusted at all. The one surprising good thing is that she will help occasionally when its shorthanded. 

This could be a really fun department to work in but unfortunately it is not. It is however a great place to get your foot in the door and then move on. Definately better than not having a job. High turnover. I am so thankful to be out of that department. I'll give the advice that I was given the second day on the job by a 'veteran' dietary worker, "Don't do anything extra than your job because it will then be expected of you all the time and do not perform so well that they cant do without you but do just good enough that they don't fire you.

I have never in my life have been treated so poorly in any company in my life.  when I applied and got hired to work for Providence Milwaukie hospital, I was excited and thrilled to have a hospital under my belt for new experience and skills. I should have known the red flags when I received a start day but not a start time for my orientation . I emailed multiple times of my start time and got no response back. When i started of my first week I let management know I have a disability and need more training in areas to grasp the material. They stated to me that is totally ok and thats not a problem for I would get it in 6 months. I was also promised a bus pass do to that is my type of transportation that I take. I got hired under false pretenses . They had stated they are sorry but cannot provide any services regarding bus passes. They also had some trainers who did not want to train me on some software for their company. I was degraded by being insulted and yelled at by my trainers. I was insulted severely by them saying to me if i'm slow of learning and what's wrong with me not grasping the software. I was also got talked to about my attendance and how I have been late . I was not told or read any policies regarding there is a limit of how many times of occurrences i have.   I was also got told saying if i take transit they will keep a note on file saying because I take the bus I would probably be late and they would keep a note about it. while I was in the meeting with managment they never stated to me that I'm about close to the limit mark . I also got a email after a week saying that I need to have a meeting with managment because I already hit my number of tardiness that I can take, knowing that they already had their mind set that they wanted to let me go, I don't know why they had me come into work the following day for 3 hours to than get called into the office to give my badge and leave the premises. This was a waste of time to get a job knowing that they all ready had their mind set of not wanting me to work there. I had to fight for my paperwork and ask for information from other people to know where to fill out my w-2 form. 

When I first started at the company, it was great. I found that everyone was really friendly and helpful. They definitely helped to "ease my way". I learned so much in my first year there. However, by the end of my time there, the culture had changed drastically. We were often short staffed, and the workload was tough. It was hard to not feel like there was some preferential treatment given to some employees. There was very high expectations with little assistance from case managers and upper management. I was a part time employee, but worked full-time hours. There were many drastic and sudden changes made within the department, which were said to be "regional" decisions. The changes were not planned well and very little instruction, if any, was given to new duties or protocol. I was laid off as a result of a move to "regionalize" my department. I tried very hard to stay within the company, however, HR and management did not seem to help. My experience with the application and interview process was extremely frustrating to say the least. Due to technical issues, I needed to create 2 new profiles for the application system. I don't know what job offers I may have missed out on due to that, but that was the only recourse that recruiters could provide. There seemed to be a lack of communication between recruiters and hiring managers. I would get requests to schedule interviews via their website, and then later find out that the position was already filled or cancelled. I often tried to contact recruiters and/or IT regarding technical issues with their application website, with no response. I went on numerous interviews, some of which were delayed due to "technical difficulties" on the part of Providence. I had another very extremely unprofessional interview, in which the hiring manager only asked if I would be willing to go to a different location than the one I applied for. When I respectfully declined, he abruptly ended the interview. It lasted all of 2 minutes. I was even passed over from the same position that I was laid off from. I ultimately had to make the decision to move on from the company as I no longer felt like a valued employee. 

Limited competition gives PSPH the ability to take advantage of RNs who have no idea that the pay is sub-par because most of them have worked at PSPH their entire lives and have no idea how other hospitals pay or run their hospital. 
I have worked at several of the competition and they pay much better, even their southern sister hospital, PCH, has better pay. They do this ridiculous tiering system for overtime that includes incentive pay, short call and basic time and a half if you don't fit into those categories, instead of paying double time like the rest of the I-5 corridor. And if you aren't full-time then you only have time and a half and short call pay-incentive pay does not apply to you. Check the union contract it's public. You're also first to float if you do agree to come in on your day off, which I feel is a slap in the face to those that are helping out the floor, unfortunately its budgetary. It should only be determined by float dates. Period. 
The ICU - I have never worked anywhere in 25 years where the ICU wasn't somewhere that nurses weren't waiting for the opportunity to work there. The tower nurses don't want to transfer there because staff does not feel supported by the director. The amount of turnover is incredible. Cyclically, the other floors are required to staff the ICU by floating to cover their high turnover. Simple statistics show they provide sub-par care-they have high amount of pressure ulcers (bedsores from not repositioning adequately), wounds and infections that are all considered NEVER events according to the Joint Commission, yet why isn't this director EVER held accountable.
In 10 years of working here I have watched as they continue to decrease CNA and secretary coverage, which I think I might be the most upset about. If you are trying to increase profits (all hospitals are still a business) do you really start with your support staff? 
I will say that I have enjoyed many of my co-workers and I remember it being an amazing place to work, a place that we were proud to provide exceptional patient care, but times are changing and I wish all new employees the best of luck! Maybe you can help bring about the changes that I am too exhausted to.

I just want to warn any prospective candidates who are thinking about applying for a benefitted evening shift position at Providence Burbank to think twice before accepting a job offer for this particular position.

I found out the hard way that in general, evening shift pharmacists sometimes get pulled to work overnight until 3:30 or 4 AM when there is a graveyard tech callout. Not just a pharmacist callout. But a graveyard tech callout.

Furthermore, I also learned the hard way that not everyone who works the evening shift position has a chance for upward mobility within this pharmacy department.

I wish I had known about all this before I took this position because I certainly would not have taken it if I had known beforehand that evening shift pharmacists were pulled to cover graveyard tech callouts, and that not everyone has a chance for upward mobility or advancement.

I'm not sure why the pharmacy management requests evening pharmacists to stay to cover a graveyard tech callout. It doesn't make any sense to me because I have never seen this done anywhere else I have worked.

Much to my shock, in late November 2023, our pharmacy management decided to change the 3:30 pm - 12 midnight shift to 5 pm - 1:30 AM. My co-workers and I were really shocked because we had never signed up for this. To make matters worse, Providence had changed the evening differential to be exactly the same as the graveyard differential, which meant that we would not be compensated appropriately for working hours past 12 midnight.

If you interview and accept the evening shift pharmacist position, just be prepared that you are pretty much signing up for an evening + graveyard position, with the possibility of getting pulled to work a graveyard tech shift when there is a callout.

The evening shift pharmacist job description on the Providence website for the Burbank location will not tell you all this.

I had a wonderful time working as an intern. My supervisor was kind, helpful and had a wealth of  knowledge/ experience. I tried to soak up all the knowledge that I could from him. A typical day consist of my getting to  work earlier to pray in the chapel for myself, my patients and everyone working in the hospital. I pray for God's wisdom,compassion and mercy as I meet and administer to His children according to His will. I am given a couple of floors with patient's whom I'm responsible for offering spiritual and emotional support and comfort to the patient's, their loved ones and staff. I've learned this type of job is what I was called to do. I love what I do and at times I wonder why God took so long to bring such fulfillment in my life .Management-wise, I've learned (still learning) how to chart and get it done in a timely manner. Also, how to visit a patient and be mindful of others that need my presence/blessings. I loved the work culture in both St. Joseph and Mission Hospital in Mission Viejo. Everyone seems to work together. I had no problem asking for help from my colleagues and mentors. The nurses were wonderful sharing with me pertinent information that might be useful to me. I also offered my help in anyway possible.The doctors were great as well. The hardest part of my job is not being able to visit everyone on my floors at times. I feel that everyone deserves a visit but I'm wise enough to know that at times it's impossible. One of the most enjoyable part of my job was  meeting, interacting, and getting to know my patients and how I can help them where "they are". Also, being there for the nurses who need  my spiritual and/or emotional support.

Overall, I feel blessed that I got the best training anyone could ask for at St. Joseph Hospital-Orange and Mission -Mission Viejo.

Company that strives on quality and patient safety.  Rounding on staff and patients daily.  Developed safety huddles and physician led daily rapid rounds.  Team focus on patient experience, medication information and pain control.  Instituted bedside shift report and hourly rounding including detailed falls prevention program. Exceeded budget 4/5 years.  Began follow up phone calls program, developed charge nurses, developed various quality dashboards for units.  Started unit based counsel and worked on Magnet version for small hospitals " Pathways to Excellence". Currently meeting budget requirements.  I learned to manage quality better and how to rally a team to perform at high levels. No union issues or employee grievances from my units.  My management style more transformational as I like involving staff in decisions when possible, I am fair and have a good rapport with all subordinates.  My staff consisted of  hard working nurses and aides who truly were compelled to take superior care of patients.  Managing day to day operations in three units: Medical Acute, Critical Care and Labor and Delivery and successful employee satisfaction scores.  A very positive work environment. My co worker managers were strong and together, we worked very well together to manage productivity and patient satisfaction.  The hardest part of my day was dealing with Press Ganey scores that did not fit the work the staff was doing.  Also difficult managing three very active and intense units 24/7 and keeping some sort of work life balance.  I loved visiting patients on rounds and helping staff learn and grow.  We celebrated many wins together and it was terrific to step back and watch the team work together like clockwork

I worked for two different teams in the business office and found the groups pretty great to work with, friendly and welcoming. Though we did typical administrative desk work we would talk to each other from our cubicles while still being productive. Some of us would meet after work socially and some of us joined softball and other athletic teams. 

The great thing is that Providence Systems is a non-profit that is really trying to help the community. We saw it in the events that they sponsored for the City of Portland, AIDS walk, bridge pedal, festival of trees. The accessibility of work committees like safety in the workplace and fundraising for special work events. The quarterly meetings where they explained what the company was doing on a higher level, how we ranked with other hospitals and they invited feedback and questions from the workers in an open setting. 

They were changing a lot of departments when I worked there, trying to accommodate the additional hospitals and rework departments to be better. Eight months into my job I was told my department would be moving out of state. It was a slow transition and some people felt they were kept from finding another position within the company until the transition was really happening about a year later. 

I interviewed within the company and was offered two different positions. The department I went with was doing a lot of internal restructuring. I had to figure a lot out on my own about how to do my job even as my job was constantly changing. After two years I was able to learn a lot and feel job satisfaction and accomplishment. 

The only other complaint I have is a typical one of identifying inefficient systems but not able to change it as it is happening in a different department or with insurance and governmental rules. 

All together a great place to work and get experience.

I am required to assist the PE Specialist with grade level PE in the Lawndale Elementary School District. I quickly learned how to plan and organize large events that taught staff, students, and families how to live an active and healthy life. I also learned that those plans are not set in stone and I must be flexible and respond quickly when plans fall through. 

I collect data about the students levels of activities and nutrition for our grant donors and for Providence Hospitals. As well as out in the field collecting data, I also digitally input data and share with my team and supervisors. I learned that concise and qualitative coupled with quantitative data shows the most details about how we give back to the low income communities that we serve. 

Management is always on our side and really values our opinions. Workplace culture is much more fun than most jobs because I am being physically active with 4 - 11 year olds. I am able get play and be a kid for awhile, but behind the scenes I am working hard to make the culture of the schools a healthy one. I enjoy planning out the day and organizing mt teams' schedules so that we can reach the most lives with our time there

The hardest part of the job is the many levels of communication I deal with daily. not only do I communicate with my team, but there are teachers, principals, noon aides, students, parents, and the list goes on. I am responsible for outreach to all these people and approach them in a way that is comfortable while getting them eager to participate in our program. The most enjoyable part of my day is when students come to me for hugs and advice. Knowing that they trust me enough to share a bit of their life with me, makes the long hours worth it.

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