obstetrics and gynecology physician

labor and delivery nurse

registered nurse - medical / surgical

registered nurse

registered nurse - icu

Valley Regional Medical Center

In the local vicinity of my neighborhood, there is a hospital by the name of Valley Regional Medical Center. Without this hospital and its many honorable employees, my experience in the everyday life of a physician would not have been a possible goal to achieve. When I was barely a freshman in high school at the age of fourteen, I decided to apply to the volunteer program this hospital had established. After months of anticipation, I was finally contacted to attend an orientation for incoming volunteers so that we could become familiar with the regulations and laws established by HIPPA. Once I met the regulated guidelines to become a junior axillary, I began making a difference in the lives of every person I met in this hospital. 
	I remember walking into this hospital every morning in December of 2012 for a week during Christmas time. I spent fourteen hours every day of this week, brightening up the day of patients that were too sick to even stand by bringing them breakfast and pretending to be Santa’s helper. At these moments, when I realized that working in the medical field was a rewarding opportunity, I felt even more motivated to soon change millions of lives in the world by providing a helping hand in the work force of physicians.

The pros: great team, management has nice people, but you can’t help but feel like a number, nurses and techs are nice and hardworking. 
Cons: too much responsibility on the nurse, there is often no tech so you are responsible for blood sugars, temps, turns, changing linens, toileting patients, and if there is a code god help us. No unit clerk so phone calls get unanswered. Doctors get the red carpet rolled out, they do not put in their own orders, and certain providers are hard to reach.
What I really don’t like is that there is no opportunity to grow or advance. If an employee wants to learn how a new skill, management and red tape makes it difficult to get that skill. I have been working here for almost a year and I was not trained on open hearts, impellas, IABP, dialysis, or most skills I’ve asked for. Their education team is overwhelmed and tries their best but limited classes are offered for critical care nurses. It is very disappointing and frustrating to want to grow your skills but to be treated by management like it’s a chore to want to learn. Taking a pay cut was not worth it. As much as I like the people here, this job is not teaching me any skills I want to learn. I like my coworkers so I will stay PRN for them.

I use to work on the surgical floor, medical floor, pediatric department, womens center, ICU, PCU departments. I learned about the differences between each department, but everywhere I was scheduled, I never changed how I worked. I believed patient satisfication was our goal. I work with passion and dedication following procedures and making a patient feel as comfortable as possible. I always had help around either with my co-workers or my nurses whenever I needed it and when they were too occupied. The hardest part of my job was having a patient pass away, but working in a hospital it was bound to happen. The most enjoyable part of my job was knowing that i was making a difference in how patients felt about being in a hospital. i treated all patients just the way i wish to be treated if i were a patient!

The company overall is a good place to work for. The Laboratory itself is not a good place. I work there for 2 years and the management is not great people to work with. They’re not supportive at all, when you need help you need to figure it out yourself. Director was so rude and never appreciated anything you would do even if it meant staying later after your shift or doing everything on your job description. If you decide to work here I wish you the best of luck a lot of people have left the laboratory because of the director he is not a good person to work for. He makes you feel like you’re dumb like you don’t know anything and he knows everything, even when he is wrong he will never admit. Overall the management make you not want to go to work anymore or feel comfortable working there. 

Clean, assemble and sterilize surgical instruments used through out the day. I've learned all the technical ways to preform my job to the fullest. Management are great. Working as a team can be difficult at times in my department. The hardest part of my job is that the work is not spread out evenly, what I mean by that is that someone of my co-workers don't pull their own weight. The most enjoyable part of the job is that I know that at the end of the day I've done my part in insuring that all the instrument I've dealt with have been properly cleaned and sterilized. And that gives me pride knowing that the instruments will be clean for the next patient.

Working here is probably no different than working at any other hospital. They are 12 hr+ shifts with days that sometimes didn't allow for bathroom breaks or lunch time. While I worked there, my director and co-workers absolutely made the job wonderful. With a high stress job like being a nurse on an intermediate care unit, the people you work with make a world of difference. At the time of this writing my director and almost all of my co-workers have left for other jobs or departments within the hospital due to higher management issues. I did learn a lot during the time i worked there and value the experience I have gained.

It can be a 5 star hospital, and does strive to keep the staff taken care of for the most part. However, depending on the co-workers, as it would with any job it can be even more stressful than it needs to be. Leadership is important, and ego can definitely take over, so if a employee is constantly being reported.. the red flag should be addressed appropriately. It is a facility that aims for high performance, yet does not do give employees fair patient to nurse ratios. I am talking about almost every floor including icu

No job is perfect, but I am impressed daily by the culture here. 
In the short time I have been working at this facility, I have been made to feel at home.  I speak positively daily with administration, transportation, radiology, pharmacy staff, and even the cleaning staff.  Jobs are entirely better when the culture of the company is like this.  The emergency room is stressful, but when the night/day is staffed with a good team, it makes the day a whole lot easier. 

God is present in this hospital, there is no doubt about that.

Adult ICU ventilators were rarely managed based on prewritten orders but, parameters and pt compliance determined ongoing changes and managing of vents.  Supervisors and the "acting director" were always ready and willing to provide support if pt census changed or we became short-staffed.  The acting-director even came in to work in the middle of the night or very early in the morning when extra help was needed, several times that I can recall. Best teamwork I've seen in a hospital!

I was hired for a position as a unit secretary. I spent more time being a patient sitter on other units than the position I was hired for. I was not told that I would have to be a patient sitter and see how horrible the patients are treated and the true lack of care. I had to do things I was never trained for. Two of us were supposed to be taking turns going to other units. I was always the one sent every single time. When this was brought up to management they defended their actions with their words but not with proof.

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Obstetrics and gynecology physician 12 salaries reported	$24.00 per hour
Labor and delivery nurse 1 salary reported	$33.30 per hour
Registered nurse - medical / surgical 1 salary reported	$23.92 per hour
Registered nurse 1 salary reported	$33.30 per hour
Registered nurse - icu 1 salary reported	$36.63 per hour

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