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Regions Hospital

Overall, I am pretty happy with Regions. I have had many opportunities to grow my clinical knowledge and experience, and the pay and benefits are good. Any complaints I have about my job are mostly patient or management related but to be honest I don't think they'd be any better at any other hospital. I have done some travel nursing so it was interesting to compare different facilities.

I definitely have units I prefer over others, but that's not surprising. Generally I like most all of my coworkers. I feel like we have a good culture especially on my weekend. One complaint I have is that I don't often feel particularly supported by management. My direct managers are in the classical middle-management purgatory trying to appease the higher ups, and keep the units running smoothly - with varying success. I have resigned myself to feeling ambivalent about this at best. They try sometimes, other times they let me down but this doesn't surprise me. Maybe I'm just too crusty at this point. I did have a manager who was amazing but retired. Your experience is likely to be unit-specific, but it's like that everywhere.

Sometimes it took a little extra effort on my part, but on the whole every time I asked for more training or opportunities they were in my grasp within what I'd say is a reasonably timely manner. We do a lot of stuff here as a level 1 trauma and comprehensive stroke center so the chance to be exposed to a lot of treatments and interventions is good. If you're in the ICUs I feel pretty respected by the docs whom I work closely with (it's a teaching hospital so sometimes the residents are hit or miss) and feel like I have a lot of responsibility but also autonomy. You have tons of opportunities to hone your skills and experience different areas of medicine if you're so inclined. I felt well prepared/educated as I increased my experience and it's been easy to move units/roles over the years. However I have seen some people get less than ideal education/training the last few years due to staffing. I recommend orienteees to speak up if they didn't feel they got the experience they needed or feel like they need more. 

It's been a good gig for me, all things considered. I would recommend working here for anyone crazy enough to want to work bedside. Staffing challenges are an ongoing concern, but where aren't they? I feel like if you work here, especially in the ICUs you're well prepared to get a job at any other hospital. I feel like I'm at the top of my game. 

Regions used to be a decent company to work for until Radiology had a big management shake up a few years back.  The people placed in management positions are incompetent, make life miserable for the employees that don't suck up and actually have a backbone and don't care enough about employees to make sure they even get a breaks.  The workplace gossip is horrible and management makes no effort to quell it and seem to encourage it in some cases.

Don't even bother working yourself to the bone because once you do that management will continuously add more and more job duties on your plate to make up for the laziness and incompetence of other coworkers.  Even if you are told that you do a good job that will not come into play during your yearly performance reviews.  Management takes that opportunity to bring up anything and everything that is wrong with you in order to justify only giving you a pitiful 1% raise.  These issues are never brought to your attention other than during your review, therefore never giving you a chance to know what you were doing wrong and try to improve.  

The ONLY opinions that matter are that of management.  They claim to appreciate employees but budget is the only thing that truly matters.  They keep wanting us to do more with less which greatly affects patient care, safety and the safety of the employees.  They need to find a way to save money at the cost of employees and patients in order to pay the ridiculous amount of managers they have running around and help them come in under budget and get their yearly bonuses.  

In closing, this would be a wonderful place to work if you are in management or possibly a tech in one of the specialties.  If you are a front desk worker you are viewed as disposable even though you are the first line of patient contact and are responsible for their first impression.  Leaving this company was the best decision I have ever made.  I now work for a manager that is not a complete loon or catty and treats his employees with respect.

Typical minnesotan community. Nice to your face and then gossip behind you back. The veterans "eat the young" with bullying behind the backs of management. Within only a year, I've know 3 employees who took the forever sleep of their own accord because of this system.

The benefit system is tied with tenure, decent benefits start after 7 years of work. PTO accrual rates, and the ability to park in a ramp that is physically attached to the building being the main two.

Management plays favorites, and only enforces punishment policies on people that aren't on the favorites list. The current manager gets all of the say in what is enforce or not as well. What the hiring manager tells you before hiring, and the person that replaces them later on could have entirely different view points and enforce different rules as such. Upper management tells middle management to lie as much as possible about the possibilities of raises as well blame shift to the unions on why.

Attendance policy is a joke that is only really enforced to force people to work for free i.e. "you can come into work up to 7-minutes early (hours are paid in 15-minute increments), but come in literally 1 minute late 3 times is the same as missing a full day." 

Food services are priced absurdly ( 4$/slice of pizza or 4.30$ for a plain cheeseburger the size of a mcdouble) with inconsistent hours of operation, and inconsistent quality. They also charge for water.

The morgue is also inconviently located to where if you are any kind of behind the scenes employee you will see at least a couple of bodies or gurneys a week.

I first applied for a Registration position with the Emergency Department. Had scheduled an interview with the manager but was told 2 HOURS before my interview that the manager was "sick" and would not be able to meet with me. I sent emails detailing other times I would be available and never got a response. I understand that this may be how "work is done" but I think it's highly unprofessional. How hard it is to tell someone they're not a right fit or that the position had already been filled? I ended up getting a job as a PCA on the hospital floors instead. One night I was stationed in the ED to keep watch on a patient and overheard two registration people arguing. It was embarrassing, the whole ED heard it and plenty of faces were made. I'm glad I ended up not working there.

PCA/NA work is good hands on experience. Lots of interaction with people, you get your fair share of patients that are enjoyable and not enjoyable to work with. Most evenings/overnights are better because patients would be resting and it's quiet. It's good to have a busy day once in a while though, makes the day go by faster.

- Despite having "mental health" in the job title, this job entails NO mental health work at all. Even though we are exposed to numerous disorders, we do not get to interact with them psychologically. Worked for a year now, and I haven't utilized anything from college, nor have I learned anything new in terms of psychopathology. This job focuses more on the nursing/physical care-giving role and none on mental health.

- Going off from the first point, the daily duties basically required as an MHA: take vital signs, serve food, take glucose readings, do housekeeping work (cleaning, making beds, doing laundry, taking out trash, etc), bathroom assistance, and checking in patient's belongings... no mental health duties whatsoever. A bachelor's degree should not be required in order to perform such basic and mundane tasks.

- Odd hours and required bi-weekends, which is not worth the small pay that is given.

- Depending on which floor you will be placed on, majority of the co-workers are nurses, which a handful can be conceited and demanding. There is a sense of social rankings with MHA's being the subordinate.

Frontline staff are treated as disposable and management is insensitive to concerns brought forward by their frontline staff. Patient and staff safety are often overlooked in order to make more money. For example, some nursing units have no lift equipment and nurses are often left to provide care in positions without access to ordered medications, patient wristbands and barcode scanning to prevent medication errors. Aggressive/violent patients are often admitted inappropriately and then left to nursing to deal with, this has resulted in preventable assaults and injuries sustained by patient care staff. Also, patient care staff are forced to use their own PTO after likely acquiring COVID in the work place due to being given one flimsy paper droplet mask to wear all day even though the masks are explicitly labeled and intended for only one time use, while N95's are locked away in manager's offices. 

I worked part time as a temporary in the Talent Acquisition department of HR and enjoyed my time there. Although HR (service center, HRBPs, etc.) was physically fragmented due to limited space within the hospital, communication and workflow was fluid and objectives were met as if we were all housed together. The people I worked with were truly professional, the managers I worked with were very competent in knowing their role in the hiring process. It was a joy to interview candidates because they all held Regions Hospital in high regard due to its reputation within the community or their own personal experience as being former patients or family members/friends of former patients.

It has such great potential  but with new managers looking one up the system and revenue they look to see how fast you can see a patient.  
On paper it sounds well but in treating a post-surgical patient you often need more than 20 minutes.

documentation  time allotted is horrendous, 2.5 minutes for treatment notes and 5 minutes for evaluations.

And your patients are scheduled ahead of time for you which would be nice if they kept you on the same floor, but patients are scheduled every half hour and on different floors and different buldobgna sometimes, very unreasonable and very little consideration of the time a patient will need.

Not patient centric care at all,  
it is revenue centric...and I get that, but it’s crossed a line....too far and lost sight of the real mission....helping people recover from their injuries and illness in an efficient and high quality manner.

Management and staff on the Neuroscience Unit was horrible!! Staff not very welcoming of new staff, they do not offer to help new staff, they go to management and complain about everything. The staff would have a conversation right over a new employee, acting as if that employee didn’t exist. They made it very difficult for new hires to “fit in.” Management was not much better. If management had it out for a particular employee that employee could do no right in their eyes. If you were not liked by management you knew no matter how hard you tried management would find some reason to call you in their office, very confrontational, rude, disrespectful, belittling. That place was the worse, absolute worse ever!

Stay away,there are better places to work.Overall management is very bad,there's no room to do your job ,only what you are told. Most of the directions are made up as you go and there's no policies that are concrete,they change constantly to fit the needs of the managers and not the patients or staff. You will learn alot and enjoy some of the best technology you have ever seen, but the stress just to maintain your integrity is overwhelming to say the least.There are moles everywhere that fabricate your activites and undermine your ability to do your job.You asked, in less than one year over 50 people lost their jobs in department alone, just because management thought they were rebellious,no proof,no truth,no mercy.They were let go just because they had ideas that were better than the management,thus they were considered a threat.

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Registered nurse 39 salaries reported	$59.18 per hour
Food service worker 41 salaries reported	$19.33 per hour
Mental health technician 33 salaries reported	$28.06 per hour
Custodian 52 salaries reported	$22.90 per hour
Emergency room technician 42 salaries reported	$25.65 per hour

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