Reviews Received

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  February 16, 2023

   • Telemetry/Step-down

  Ratios were awful 6:1. Initial interview they said 4:1 or 5:1 on PCU unit, but when arrived for unit orientation we were informed they were now running 6:1 due to staffing shortages, with PCU status patients. Orientation was suuuuuper long, but not a bad thing, just a little tedious. Lots of travelers who were pretty friendly

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  February 16, 2023

   • Telemetry/Step-down

  Ratios were awful 6:1. Initial interview they said 4:1 or 5:1 on PCU unit, but when arrived for unit orientation we were informed they were now running 6:1 due to staffing shortages, with PCU status patients. Orientation was suuuuuper long, but not a bad thing, just a little tedious. Lots of travelers who were pretty friendly

• 
  February 15, 2023

   • Pediatrics

  The staff is very helpful but the hospital staff are brand new nurses. I was called off 3 times due to budgeting issues even though the floor really needed nurses. No dedicated IV team for pediatrics but the rest of the hospital does. The area surrounding the hospital is sketchy but all of Albuquerque is like that.

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  February 15, 2023

   • Pediatrics

  The staff is very helpful but the hospital staff are brand new nurses. I was called off 3 times due to budgeting issues even though the floor really needed nurses. No dedicated IV team for pediatrics but the rest of the hospital does. The area surrounding the hospital is sketchy but all of Albuquerque is like that.

• 
  February 3, 2023

   • Emergency Room

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  February 3, 2023

   • Emergency Room

• 
  January 22, 2022

  Nurse • Telemetry/Step-down

  Ratios were usually 1:5 for pcu but on a few short nights nurses had 6-7 which is unsafe and ridiculous. Necessary supplies were always out of stock. Very low on techs. I could not wait to get out of there. It is travel friendly though, I never got more difficult assignments for being a traveler.

• 
  December 6, 2022

   • Telemetry/Step-down

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  December 6, 2022

   • Telemetry/Step-down

  Orientation was easy and I was able to complete a good portion of it from home. The unit I worked on was in an older part of the hospital and it felt super dingy. This unit still had double rooms and we had up to x3 hall beds at a time. Staffing was based on acuity and so you were not guaranteed to have same/similar assignment day to day. Charge/educator/manager on the floor spent a lot of time chatting in the office. Face to face physician/rn interaction is not a strong point for this hospital and they rely heavily on secure chat. I floated sometimes two times a week to multiple different units. They run off of an older version of cerner but have reasonable required shift documentation. Very travel friendly as most of the staff is travelers including pt/ot/rt/lab etc.

• 
  April 28, 2022

  RN • Intensive Care

  While the hospital is generally traveler friendly and the nurses and techs in my unit were great, there were some things I was really unhappy with: Orientation to the hospital was top notch; however, we were paid for only four hours to do all the onboarding modules, regardless of how long they actually took to complete (apparently you're not expected to actually learn them). Poor culture of teamwork and collaboration between different disciplines. Patient care was at times very poor during urgent situations, as residents were unable to make decisions, and residents and physicians just stood outside the room and watched rather than acting on a patient's condition. Many of the patients who were on comfort measures were left alone to die (even though they have a "no patient dies alone" protocol). Best practice guidelines didn't seem to be a thing there, and asking questions was often not well-received (of course that varied depending on who you were asking).

• 
  February 21, 2022

  Registered Nurse • Med-Surg

  Hospital is very travel-friendly as it is filled with travel staff -- nurses, PT/OT, providers, etc. Phlebotomy, transport, techs, unit clerk -- all resources available although sometimes short staffed. Day shift downside is having to park a couple blocks away from hospital and wait for shuttle. Had no issues with badge access as a traveler, was able to get everywhere I needed with my badge. I really had no issues with the hospital itself, I just wasn't a fan of ABQ in general. I traveled alone as a young female and stayed in a decent part of town, but never felt safe enough to go adventure on my own. They cancelled me two weeks early due to low census, but were nice enough to give me a two week notice. I would definitely return!

• 
  January 22, 2022

  RN • Emergency Room

  Cerner millennium charting system.

• 
  November 18, 2021

  Travel RN • Intensive Care

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  January 23, 2021

  RN • Intensive Care

  Black scrubs. Got floated a lot.

• 
  August 15, 2023

   • Telemetry/Step-down

  the don’t have med surg units they just refer to all units that aren’t ICU as PCU. Pretty much all PCU are 1:5, staffing is horrible. Days without techs are bad. Floated to ED once, it was a mess to say the least. Abq is a ver dangerous city even though it’s not very big. Make sure to find a good place to live! Aka not on the southside of I-40. If you love hiking and the desert then u may love it here! Otherwise there isn’t much else to do.

• 
  May 14, 2024

   • Emergency Room

  Worst hospital, stay away.

• 
  January 8, 2025

   • Emergency Room

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  March 31, 2025

   • Emergency Room

  Horrible working environment, management is very quick to throw nurses under the bus for any mistake as well as reporting them to the board of nursing.

• 
  May 5, 2025

   • Intensive Care

  I can speak for ICU only, ratios are great but getting worse because they’re getting rid of double time causing no one wanting to pick up shifts anymore. Now we get tripled very often. Coworkers are great, we help each other out very often and cohesion is just great. Nurses aren’t the issue. Now the bad: If you work a weekday dayshift, you need to leave like 30 mins sooner than you normally do to wait for the stupid ass shuttle that takes like 15 minutes picking people up to drive for another 5-10 depending on traffic to the far ass side if the hospital and take another 5 minutes picking people walk to your unit for us ICU and peds/womens nurses. Pay is literally the worst out of all the hospitals but brags about “we’re level 1 so you get compensated with the experience,” Fuck that and fuck you, we work way harder for less money and they just took away one of the only incentives working there and it was double time on a picked up shift. Union fucking sucks ass too because they’re coward ass fucks signed away our right to strike so we can’t do shit about shit. They took our travelers away to save money but fucked staff because no one wants to work more for little money so we’re in this limbo of not having staff and getting shit assignments. They certainly have enough money though to build a multi hundred million dollar fucking building though with again, not enough staff to even cover what we have now but some how going to cover 500+ positions the new critical tower is opening up with. Make that make sense. Fuck unmh honestly, i’d recommend working here for a year and half, get your free certs and training then say thanks but fuck you i’m out.