Pros
An opportunity to provide an incredibly important service to people in your community. Beautiful, meaningful work. Awesome chaplains, social workers, volunteer coordinators, nurses, aides. Medical directors are supportive and respectful of others. Wonderful doctors on the team.
Cons
I was told that I was in a leadership position but nothing reflected it. I spoke up several times about issues, inconsistencies, but nothing changed, same things occurred repeatedly, I think an open meeting or discussion would have been better, an improvement plan perhaps? Upper management tries to shut you down if you speak up. On one occasion was told that it was all in my head. Borderline abusive? I learned to do my work and not speak out. Upper management makes capricious decisions at times. When I called in sick, the details of why I called in were not kept confidential. Some RNs that work in the office setting do little to no patient care yet every nurse should be required to when you are so short-staffed and continue to admit more patients. Is it really responsible let some go home at 5 when other nurses are left scrambling seeing patients late into the evening, then still have to go home and finish charting, and do it all again the next day? Finally, program management not culturally diverse, problematic since you need diversity to be successful.