Reviews Received

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  August 19, 2022

  RN • Labor and Delivery

  L&D floor was ran by VERY hands on MW (I would get looks for checking a patient, unable to place IUPC/FSE, etc) Physician interaction was minimal but always were friendly. They have some of the BEST CRNAs here, I’m talking 5 minute epidurals on average. Most of the charge nurses were very helpful, only one charge was very abrasive and confrontational to travel nurses. They are very busy and very short. Management will always side with problematic families. 3-4 day inductions are typical here, so are hemorrhages. High drug using population. Not the safest area, but also never had a bad experience in that area. I never had more than 2 laboring patients at a time and if i got busy with one, the charge never had patients so she would take over my other. Most of the staff nurses were very welcoming and nice and willing to help where I needed it! I would need well over $3k/week to come back just because of how busy they are.

• 
  April 27, 2022

  RN • Intensive Care

  The ICU here is small: 8 beds, maybe saw 2 ventilator patients per year before COVID. They aren't experienced with pressors or titratable drips. Pharmacy rolls over for anything the MD requests. They have a very high attrition rate among permanent staff, to the point some shifts will be ALL travelers and a traveler will be expected to take Charge RN duties. Some doctors are verbally abusive and attempt to publicly humiliate RNs, or tell an RN "that's impossible, they would be dying" if an RN brings up a serious concern and refuse to assess the patient. Med-Surg floors are drowning, as is the ER. ICU will be asked to float to ER or to the floor, but usually only take an isolation patient on 1:1 suicide precautions if on the floor. Plastic Surgery does DIEP flap breast reconstructions, and they are very particular about their patients (but very approachable and kind to RNs, understanding travelers can't know what they weren't told). No tube station, you walk all your own labs and pick up all your own meds. No techs. Staff (where they exist) can be very traveler friendly and welcoming. It's a really great area of Albuquerque. You're lucky if you have NP coverage on nights. An intensivist tends to run ICU patients, but there is a hospitalist assigned to every patient (though they seem really defeated and just trying to get through the day). Admin will bow to patient families even when it is unsafe or unreasonable, placing bedside staff in awkward positions. Not a lot of equipment available.

• 
  April 28, 2025

   • Med-Surg

  The floor staff is great and everyone is very welcoming and supportive. The one major complaint that myself and everyone I talk to has is that the scheduler will deny your PTO 90% of the time. They will say that they can work with your needed schedule for school but won’t. A total of 10 nurses have quite or transferred just in the past three months. The pay is the lowest I’ve seen available in the area. The manager will blackball you when you try to transfer and she is very two faced.