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Firstly,there is a CLEAR distinction between UC Health/Medical Center and UC the university or UCP with UC Health/Medical Center ranking lowest in quality. (where the confusion starts)

There are some AMAZING clinicians who are passionate about their work and sincerely aim to serve patients as best they can whose jobs are made harder due to the failing system of UCH.

Management is the biggest issue which reflects in the culture which is extremely complacent and confusing.
Their systems are convoluted making it very hard to almost impossible to do your job effectively or efficiently.
They give a lot of lip service to changing the culture but minimal realistic actions that could improve it-many initiatives, too few sustainable implementations.
An overhaul of leadership would be ideal but also further add to the staffing issue. I lost count months ago of the weekly turnover. One minute over starting a project with a new coworker, the next week they're gone and you're starting over (the cycle my last year).
Very strong lack of accountability across departments. Issues are shifted to rookies of the team instead of ever being resolved.

Now you can move around and get promoted if you're willing to adapt to the counterproductive culture. There are small glimpses of hope in some departments but the feat is great.
An great opportunity to learn, grow and build character as challenges are many.

UC Health became a health issue for me due to stress, I felt like I was going crazy and losing brain cells by the hour. Oh and I caught covid trying to help another department which they accounted for but still very unfortunate.

You CAN grow and connect with some wonderful people, but you can also risk preserving your sanity at it's cost.

My best advice is to simply proceed WITH caution.

UC Hopsital is an excellent starting position opportunity for any new graduate from the respiratory program.  At UC hospital a newly graduate is able to utilize all of their learn skills by being  trained to worked all of the intensive care units. Training in each of the ICU's is an awesome opportunity to advance your learned skills and knowledge to a whole new level.  Your clinical skills become not only the best but will open doors you never thought possible. 

As part of the UC team you will find that your training places you as one of the most important person administering care whether it is critical care or nor critical care. 

A typical day is always filled with new learning experiences, new opportunities for growth and endless ways to improve on your patient care skills. 

What I admired most about University Hospital was the emphasis placed on patient care and there overall safety in all areas. I have yet to find another hospital that can match University hospital's  patient care standards. 

During my employment there I had the opportunity to work with some of the finest Respiratory Therapist in the city of Cincinnati and found them to my most invaluable resources. 

Management was always available and they excelled at follow up on all employee concerns, complaints, and needs. 

New Respiratory Therapist will find that not only will they be a valued part of the team while working at UC but the endless knowledge and opportunities they will have the chance to experience on a daily basis and all the growth that entails.

I've worked in a lot of labs. The core lab workflow makes no sense and the expectations from management are lofty. This is an extremely high volume lab. It's a level one trauma center. It takes a certain kind of tech to be able to take that kind of pressure with lots of teamwork and support in a good environment. This is not a good environment. There is no accountability for supervisors. There is no support from leadership. Everyone who currently works there is burnt out or well on their way to it. Mandated shifts (currently about once a week for each tech. One whole extra shift mandated on top of the hours you signed up to work,) while also lacking adequate coverage for breaks, coupled with a bizarre hyper focus on insignificant things instead of the huge elephant in the room, (which is a fundamentally broken system that chews its employees up and spits them out.) I would not know where to begin to weed out the illogical processes or address the giant sucking void of a leadership team that doesn't know how to train or lend support along the way or worse- just doesn't bother to do it. If you're considering a role with this lab, think long and hard. Work life balance is non-existent in its current state and they truly do not care.

Each day is different. Busyness depends on the number of patients that day. Not many coworkers or managers you can trust. There's a lot of drama; it felt like high school when I started working there. Managers never communicate with each other and don't really help out when running behind or short staffed. Once you make some good trustworthy friends it'll be really fun. I just learned to always watch my back when I'm there cause you never know who is going to try and lie on you or snitch for something not serious. One of the hardest parts, when you first start, is being able to collect dirty trays and manage to deliver other trays on time, but you'll be able to get the hang of things quickly. The other hardest part would be how much you walk a day if you're not used to standing and walking for long periods of time. The most enjoyable part is being able to interact with so many different people and you pretty much learn the whole hospital. It might seem horrible, well it is horrible because of the managers and some coworkers, but if you keep your personal business to yourself and do the right thing regarding your job duties then everything will be good. If you look past the drama and everything petty, it's a really good job. Oh and be prepared to hear smart remarks from some nurses and be ignored by some nurses and doctors. They look down on positions in the kitchen but not all are like this.

A typical work day for me (the last year and a half) was working with younger nurses that were just too immature to understand the seriousness of working in an intensive care unit. They carried their mobile devices into patient rooms to use Facebook and text while doing patient care. I worked more hours in my last year than I ever had and I was 60 years old but often times there were patients that no one else was able to take care of at night. The immaturity is what led me to retire early...I even experience a nurse leave the unit early at 4AM to catch a plane without relief and she had a full assignment but management would do nothing about it when it was brought to their attention. This was the hardest part of my job...not the patient care, which I loved, but dealing with the immaturity and the managements lack of leadership. Management actually tended to stroke these younger nurses which they were aware were not doing their jobs at night. The most ENJOYABLE part of my job was caring for the patients. The last year and a half I truly hated driving in to work but once I walked into my patients room that love of taking care of my patients kicked in and I totally forgot about everything else.

A normal day at a busy Level One Trauma Hospital, starts off with me getting to work 1 hour early before my shift starts so, I can check my emails, and respond in a timely manner, greeting my co-workers with a good morning before shift change take place, each employee is responsible for given daily activity report, next report to my work station to stock supplies that I need to work with for that day, greet my patients with a smile, hello and the process begin. At the end of my shift I make a rule always type one more patients and make more calls, etc, and clear my desk for the next shift.

I've leaned to work on many projects at same time, I've learned to be professional and respectiful to my patients, co-workers and management team, also how to work as a team, and work in different areas within the hospital. I have learned to motivated people, I learned to listen and take direction well. I have learned that what is good for the company is good for me.

I have the highest respect for my Colleagues and Management Team, I really appreciated the personel and professional growth, opportunies, honesty, and the enjoyment of learning from each one of them.

The hardest part trying to avoid a cup of coffee.
I enjoy working as a team, learning new tasks, meeting new people, and being commitment to get the job done.

This job was one of my favorites that I've had.  The only thing that I didn't like was that it was a long term temporary position.  On a typical day, I transferred data from a paper medical record onto a patient's record on Epic software when it first came out in May of 2012.  I would also scan medicals records into Epic as well.  I traveled to different UC Health hospitals in Clifton and West Chester and I enjoyed most of the management.  They were around most of the time when I needed them.  I got along with most of my coworkers, except the ones that didn't do their job.  They even got very jealous and upset with me when my boss announced how many medical records I did when I was doing data entry.  The hardest part of the job was when I was working in the Infectious Disease Clinic when the doctors didn't sign the most important paperwork in time and I receive angry phone calls from patients asking if the doctors signed the papers for their prescriptions and other important medical needs. The best part of the job was that there was always something to do the entire day: scanning papers, answering phone calls, faxing, and getting the mail.

A typical day at work is coming in and trying your best to do your job and having the snooty nursing staff be fake in your face and stab you in the back the next minute or you work your butt off and have nothing ever be good enough for these people. I have learned that people at this establishment mean nothing, bottom line is all about numbers and money. They are hypocrites that preach you should be nice, nice, nice when they are not.  There is a union here that also does nothing. If you are not a nurse here, you are treated just like "the help".  They keep the laziest and worst of employee's and get rid of those that actually earn their paychecks.Management tries but is always over-ruled by the union. Never any consistency. If you are liked here you're golden but if not there is always someone trying to find fault in what you do. Taking up for yourself will also earn you a trip to Human Resources. Although this place says they give you so many benefits, you are essentially paying out the nose for those benefits and you would think working in a hospital would give you benefits. Not here. The hardest part of my job is watching patients and good co-workers suffer at the hands of people who are only in this for the money.

Not so much as a fun place to work....A lot of pressure from all aspects of the positions held there. very little room for advancement unless you were of a higher class in your position.  The Hospital certainly could not operate without the help from all positions there, however, tolerable.

Not an exceptional place of employment, but it used to be.  Able to work at a manageable pace.  Felt extremely unfair to union workers.  No compliance with other employees.  Always friction from somewhere that makes the positions somewhat stressful.  Some of the doctors were extremely unfair to the workers, especially clerks.  Some of the managers there were, as far as I could maintain, unqualified in their positions.  Very petty md's.  I hear and see that some of the clerical workers are not happy at all in their positions.  Able to advance but under extreme situations always.

I would like to take a position there even now with all of the problems, but it's ran like a business as opposed to a place where people come for health issues.

I worked in various positions there but continually strived to upgrade

This hospital is the first job I had as an RN. I was proud of myself for attaining the goal I so wanted. I worked the night shift to start, which was a very different world. Patients are the same everywhere though. They all come for care, and that's what we gave them. I learned nursing at the University Hospital. You learn in school, but when you get out in the workforce, that's where the real education begins. I started on a medical floor for my first four years, then I knew I needed more. I applied for the ED as well as the SICU. ED came through first, so I went there, and stayed ever since. Our patients were inner city, the hospital was a teaching hospital, with interns, residents, fellows, etc. I loved working with them. Co-workers were great, everyone working together. I enjoyed the trauma we had there. It was a level I trauma center. Management was great. I oriented new nurses in the ED, which I enjoyed. The time at this hospital was before computers, and I remember we were the first to get a CT. MRI hadn't been invented yet. We had the first hyperbaric chamber in the city.

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Registered nurse 7 salaries reported	$38.73 per hour
Patient assistant 7 salaries reported	$18.00 per hour
Medical assistant 6 salaries reported	$20.00 per hour
Line cook 5 salaries reported	$17.66 per hour
Dishwasher 2 salaries reported	$16.28 per hour

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