Reviews Received

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  March 17, 2023

   • Other

  UVA was my first assignment for NICU and it’s been my favorite so far. Staff was really friendly to the travelers. Very helpful when I had questions. Enjoyed the set up of the pod-based open bay, and the area of Charlottesville had lots to do and was a quick drive to Shenandoah and beautiful wineries in the surrounding area. Took my acuity preference into account and gave me stable high-acuity kids. I would come back 100%. Only downside was housing is expensive and hard to find!

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  December 7, 2022

   • Intensive Care

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  December 5, 2022

   • Med-Surg

  First ever contract was great! Ratios were 4-5 per nurse, but 5 was rare, and many days I had 3 patients for a majority of my shift. It's a busy hospital, but staff was friendly and very helpful. Charlottesville was a lot of fun for 3 months, but I can't imagine living there much longer than that. I'd go back for another contract sometime, though!

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  December 3, 2022

   • Telemetry/Step-down

  On my cardiac unit, NPs and nursing staff were generally not nice. Charge never took patients, and never helped on the floor. Travelers would be pushed to 5 patients but staff never had to take more than 4, not terribly unreasonable but when asking for help there were no resources and no one would offer even if you asked for help, including charge. Other floors didn’t seemed to be much better, very nice, helpful and accommodating. I guess I was just unlucky to be on a floor that didn’t seem to like travelers.

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  July 17, 2022

  BSN, RN • Med-Surg

  Float pool nights. Very travel-friendly facility. Ratios 1:4-5 (5 is rare). Days: need to use (free) shuttle bus that picks you up from the stadium. Nights: park at the parking garage and use the skybridge walkway to the hospital. Pay for parking decal is $50 (reimbursed by my agency)

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  June 15, 2022

  RN • Med-Surg

  I was only floated twice during my contract so I am not sure how the rest of the hospital is but the unit I was assigned to was great. The ratios were 1:4/5 (rarely 5pts) but techs were hard to come by. Staff was super friendly and welcoming. Scheduling for my unit was done by the administrative assistant and we didn’t have much flexibility, especially on weekends. The unit was mostly staffed with travelers and we all worked almost every weekend. Overall, it’s a good hospital to work at but there are definitely some cons like any hospital.

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  November 21, 2021

  Travel RN • Telemetry/Step-down

  All depends on which unit you’re assigned to. The posting for “telemetry” that prompted us to take a PCU test was actually the COVID unit. I hated being floated to other units, but thankfully that didn’t happen often. This is all in all a great contract.

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  November 4, 2021

  Staff rn • Intensive Care

  High acuity patients but staff are friendly and willing to help out

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  June 22, 2023

   • Intensive Care

  First travel assignment was here at UVA and it’s been amazing. If you’re ICU trained and go into their float pool, you’ll have 3 patients max on a gen med/surg floor. ICU’s you’ll have 2 patients max. The greatest thing about it all is that it’s almost ALL TRAVELERS HERE! So asking for help usually isn’t an issue for the most part. They legit have a tiny amount of core staff, especially on night shift; I was told during my orientation that roughly 70% of all RN’s here are travelers. Would highly recommend!

• 
  March 26, 2024

   • Med-Surg

  I love this hospital!! I started at this facility as a new grad RN and came back as a traveler and had equally a good experience as when I was staff. Coworkers are helpful and patient population isn’t bad. The facility is great. I love the area as well. Overall great experience

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  March 31, 2025

   • Med-Surg

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  April 7, 2025

   • Other

  If management doesn’t change in OR, I would never go back. They do not full train their new hires.

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  April 14, 2025

   • Emergency Room

  Short staffing and high volume, as with any trauma center. Pay was very fair for the area and amount of work, but it was indeed a lot of work, always busy, not enough support staff. Parking was a challenge and often added up to an hour to your day to allow time for the shuttle as the parking garage is not on site of the hospital. Up-to-date on evidenced-based practices for patient care. Not flexible with scheduling at all.

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  April 18, 2025

   • Med-Surg

  Ratios were amazing on med/surg, usually 3-4 patients for RNs. Techs are hard to come by, usually only two on a 28 bed unit. Culture was overall good, not a lot of gossip at least on the unit I worked on. Lots of travel nurses as well. The parking situation is hot mess so add an extra hour on to your day for working/bussing to the parking lot.