Pros
Nursing staff are fantastic, hard working professionals. Great opportunity for the new grad to receive the experience needed to be successful in their career with wonderful support from nursing education. Excellent health care benefits and self-scheduling in nursing areas which really allows you to be in control of your work week. Great team of physician leaders who are supportive of nursing staff.
Kontras
Focus has drifted from supporting the bedside nurse with various initiatives to expecting nurses to manage care for 7-8 patients. This translates into the nurse having up to 11-12 different patients in a 12 hour shift when patients are discharged and new admissions come in. Managers are told to wear their scrubs and work a 12 hour shift in addition to their regular 10 hours already worked since nursing staff are in short supply. Nursing has been forced to accept this high patient to nurse ratio as normal when in truth funding can be obtained to create a healthier work environment. HRD does not solicit nor entice expert nurses to Memorial since they know the better place to be is in Denver. Focus is on graduate nurses and not experienced nurses.