Overall not bad. Little difficult at first starting - but got better. A lot of people extended their contract several times.
Overall not bad. Little difficult at first starting - but got better. A lot of people extended their contract several times.
Love, love, love JHH. Great training, great orientation, user friendly EMR. They have sufficient staffing and traveler friendly.
at first the staff was very closed off and not too welcoming & seemed to expect me to know all of their hospital policies and procedures right off the bat. after extending, they warmed up. 9N is said to be a cardiac unit but has a lot of med surg overflow and they respected the fact that i didn’t have much cardiac experience and avoided giving me those patients. ratios 1:3 but at the beginning i feel like i would get the crappy assignments but throughout that seemed to fade. free parking for night shift in the garage that has a bridge to walk right across to the hospital. they had an IV team and phlebotomy and you are not allowed to stick unless you’ve been checked off. there were only a few doctors that were nice to get along with, the others seemed to not address your concerns about your patients. teams would round with charge during night shift which was nice. respiratory was spread thin for the whole time i was there. they do not use CNAs on the floor and often times there were any support staff like a secretary or the aids that would stock the floor. very good learning experience, i was able to gain experience with diagnosis’s that i was not familiar with.
Loved my time at JHH. Only major complaint would be techs that weren’t helpful…they have amazing ratios though!
CVSICU only gives travelers the most basic patients. No devices, minimal transplants. Makes for a very boring assignment. Don’t expect block scheduling AT ALL. There are no coffee shops at all in the hospital. The only food available on nights is subway. And parking costs a fortune, but that’s city life for you.
I was a staff RN here for 3 years (ICU float pool then CCU), not a traveler. Recently moved back closer to home and am working at the top ranked hospital in DFW. I must say I really miss working at JHH. Pros: strict ratios, great equipment and resources, supplies fully stocked in patient rooms, bonus for full time nights, free parking at night, good health insurance with low deductibles, decent PTO (how difficult it is to use depends on unit) Cons: rotating schedule for most (the likely way around this is full time PM, very rare to work full time AM), parking is expensive for day shift, pay isn’t the best but not terrible either (and was able to pick up “high needs” shifts basically whenever I wanted), on call shifts, only 50% pay out of pto when you leave Leaving JHH was very much a “you don’t know what you have till it’s gone” experience for me. I’d rather work there over my current position hands down.