Pros
It looks good on your resume and for Trauma experience. It also makes you mentally tough and realize what you DON’T want out of an employer. And on the rare occasion you’ll meet a few good people and have a good day.
Cons
You do your job and everyone else’s around you. You chase doctors around by phones all day for orders and can never get what you need until they round on your floor, randomly and unannounced. If you miss them, good luck. If a patient sudden goes critical, good luck. You’re basically on your own. Management blames everything on the nurses. Things rarely go smoothly. There is almost zero communication between anyone, including doctors to nurses and they just expect you to know without utilizing EMR. They use a mix between paper and EMR charts. Everyone has a bad attitude and there is so much unnecessary tension and animosity between nurses. Not a safe place for their patients or your nursing license. No one is happy. Staffing ratios suck. It’s a physician prioritized organization and they only care about the doctors.