Pros
Work from home!! Great nurse managers and a brilliant director of nurses. Honestly great management. Can’t say enough. Monthly 15$ gift based on something like book month, self care month etc via Amazon so you can shop for your self. Free cues and reimbursement fir out of state licensure.
Cons
I’ve never worked as a nurse for less pay, but I do it to stay away from bedside so it’s difficult to complain.the Biggest issue is PTO and lack of it. Very little pto for nurses. So if you are used to 7 weeks off a year, you’re lucky to get two. You’re even luckier of it gets approved. You may ask a week off. Months in advance. Plan a trip and two weeks before the trip you are denied pto or get 3 out of 4 days approved. It’s kind of ridiculous. If the CEO would listen, turn over would be less. Nurses get burned out. They need more pto. We don’t get weekends off. We don’t get holidays off. We need more actual time to decompress and be with family’s and be able to plan a vacation without worrying about calling in. If you do call in, you must make it up. Speaking to other nurses the high cost of health insurance and poor pto are the two main reasons we have a fairly high turn over. In 5 years I’ve seen roughly 80% turnover. Not great. I used to be part time and got no benefits at all. Everyone should be able to earn some pto. Calls are timed and it’s very difficult to handle patient care in 8-10 minutes. Our calls are listened too so even though we have autonomous jobs we’re also “watched” which isn’t necessarily a negative. Must obtain licenses for all non compact states (but they do reimburse for the license but not the time taken to obtain. And it’s a lot of time)