registered nurse

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St. Elizabeth Healthcare

A typical day included multiple opportunities for learning, growth, and sharing work experience with co-workers to maintain and improve patient comfort and satisfaction. I learned that working together in a mutual sharing environment not only maintained but improved co-worker relationships. I found that with supervisor and management cooperation and permission, Inter-departmental cooperation was achieved and appreciated. Co-workers seemed to be more happy and satisfied in their daily activities and were more willing to cooperate when multiple problems arose and there was more willingness to work together in solving issues. The hardest part of the job was keeping up with multiple issues that developed on a daily basis to keep the facility operating in an efficient and professional manner, keeping in mind the patients safety, comfort and satisfaction during their hospital stay. The most enjoyable part of the job was knowing that as each co-worker performed his/her required responsibilities in a timely manner, kept the facility operating efficiently.  By doing so, Supervisory and Management personnel showed their appreciation in words of thanks and periodic rewards.

A typical day at work starts with getting to dictation to receive patient assignments and become familiar before 7am/pm huddle, management usually sits in on huddle. Report is given at bedside with patient involvement. Nurses that work on days/nights are very nice and cordial to one another and there is always help when asked. The floor is face paced due to high nurse/patient ratios and high acuities of patients. At one point a nurse could have 3 High acuity patients and 2-3 low acuity patients during their shift. High acuity patients being thoracotomy, cabg, or pacu patients.
Workplace culture is appreciated among staff, very friendly and always willing to lend a helping hand; this makes the job very enjoyable.
The hardest part of the job, like many other jobs, is when employees do not do their full 100% and leave unnecessary work to be done by others. The tasks are easy to complete, but could've easily been completed during the time it needed to be done. 
The most enjoyable part of the job is getting to know the patients. Many of our patients are scared because of lack of education about their diagnosis and the pathology behind it, my favorite part of my job is being able to educate them and relieve their fears.

As a service intern at the Edgewood hospital, I had great mentors/supervisors for my internship and generally good interactions with most of the staff in the facility. If you're a student looking to learn more about industry applications of technology outside just "coding" or "programming" and want to make an impact, this is a great place to be!

Picking up tickets, configuring & installing devices around the hospital, and learning basics about key software like SCCM & Active Directory are hard skills that you can take to other support positions or something more advanced down the line in your career. It takes a couple weeks to get the basics, but if you can keep your enthusiasm, you can learn a lot, especially from the Desktop Support Engineers that were in the main portion of the facility when I was there. 

Overall, it's a great learning (and occasionally humbling) experience, and you get some interesting professional development experiences in there as well with the way St. E's manages their internships. Keep asking questions and smiling, don't be afraid to tackle something you've never done before!

Volunteering is a great experience and I recommend it to anyone who is interested in non-profit work and establishing a good working relationship with an entry-level company.  
     A typical day at the Emergency Room at St. Elizabeth Edgewood, consists of a four hour shift, from 3 pm to 7 pm, faced pace environment, preparing rooms for patients, and having a helpful personality.  I have learned a great deal volunteering in the E.R. for example where to put certain used 'soiled utilities' and where to put 'clean' utilities, where room numbers are located, and most importantly where to point visitors and patients to the restroom.  
      Most of the co-workers consist of PRN-nurse's, doctors (MD's), and janitorial staff.  I get along with mostly everyone, especially the nurse's and janitorial staff because the doctors are involved with medical transcription and other duties. 
     The most enjoyable part of the job is being able to work around such talented and intelligent people.  However, there are other things that make volunteering an enjoyable experience.  I'm volunteering my time and physical effort to be of service, for the sake of helping others, which is a reward in itself.

On an acute care floor, your typical work day involves a ratio of 1 RN to 4-5 patients. Most patients are high acuity based on their needs and diagnoses. In addition to providing nursing care to usually 5 patients, the expectation is to conduct hourly rounds, and educate patients on any new medications and new diagnoses via the Get-Well Network (an interactive television/internet based program used not only for the entertainment of patients but also as a teaching tool for nurses). There are many demands placed on nurses, as any other hospital requires, but St. Elizabeth does truly care about their nurses. Their care is evident in wanting to hear the voice of nurses via UBDTs, Employee Forums, many leadership opportunities, tuition reimbursement, BSN cohorts, Clinical Ladder, and higher pay compared to other Tri-State healthcare facilities. St. Elizabeth holds their Magnet designation, which is another testimony to the type of nurses who work at St. Elizabeth.

This was a very well run cardiac surgery recovery unit where I received much knowledge in the care of immediate post operative open heart patients.  It enhanced my assessment skills, interpreting laboratory data in relation to expected post cardiac surgery, understanding ventilator readings and learning to extubate my own patients (nursing and not respiratory therapy performed extubations), care of internal monitoring and the use of critical thinking skills especially in anticipation of possible interventions.  I enjoyed the complete patient care and seeing your patient progress and move on to step down care.  The hardest part of the job and most stressful was when the patient first arrived straight from surgery and working 12 hour night shifts.  My coworkers were professional and it was a department that depended on team work.

St. E has an odd company culture. Everyone seems to know everyone and quite a few people I work with have only ever worked there. This creates an insular and cliquey work environment and a lack of perspective. They really want the community to think they are great, to the point where they are blind to their deficits. It’s a very conservative place to work. Depending on the field, they are great about promoting from within. For what I do, the starting pay is quite subpar to the Ohio hospitals right across the river but the ceiling is very good (it’ll just take you 20 years to get there). They treat nurses very well. Low turnover. Beautiful and clean facilities. Leadership is consistently poor throughout the system. Great peer team members. 

I worked for St. Elizabeth for 10 years. I worked by way from being a transporter to being a lead ED technician. At the time I was getting paid less than my coworkers. When asked for a raise, several times, two things were pointed out to me that I didn't have enough experience and that I hurt myself by starting as a transporter. They stated the only way I could get a raise was to quit and reapply for my job with no guarantee I would get my position back. So, I played their game, I took a job in the laundry department and made $2 more. I didn't have to wash laundry or anything, I simply took the carts that were already filled to the floor and then bring the dirty bins down for a company to then pick up. They had no intentions of setting me up for success. I was also denied tuition reimbursement because I was attending class for IT.

Different departments are better, housekeeping dept low wage & high healthcare cost eats your paycheck. Poor training, edgewood housekeeping employees have to ride a bus to and from hospital, allot of different jobs to do such as scrub floors, all hospital garbage, room cleaning, bio hazard removal etc. Cafeteria is expensive small discount, retirement is good, always short of employof working, be prepared to clock in and out between a 6 min increments, management fires allot for employees taking time off they earned and want you to use but dont allow you to take otherwise. Transferring to other fields WILL take a year or denied. 
Also the tele-track system you must log into via a phone every job you are asked to perform such as each oom cleaning, etc You can be discplined for not using it properly. Uniforms and foot wear employee must pay out of pocket.

I was a Volunteer for three years and loved what I did. Working the front desk I met so many people from all walks of life. I loved being able to help visitors and family members find their loved ones as well as answering questions and solving problems. However the staff in general did not seem too appreciative.... Most of the nurses and doctors looked down on me because I was a volunteer. I felt that because I wasn't a paid employee I was unworthy of respect. Of the many staff members I encountered, the majority would not even say hello when I would greet them. After being referred to as "Just a Volunteer" many times,  I had enough....I wasn't expecting to be patted on the head or anything, but I did expect to be treated with respect.

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Registered nurse 3 salaries reported	$36.33 per hour
Registered nurse - medical / surgical 3 salaries reported	$34.56 per hour
Registered nurse - telemetry 12 salaries reported	$34.55 per hour
Registered nurse - operating room 5 salaries reported	$34.56 per hour
Nursing assistant 12 salaries reported	$16.83 per hour

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