HCA: Cliche Corporate Cutthroats - Anonymous employee HCA Healthcare Employee Review

3.0
Sep 14, 2008
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Pay is competitive; plenty of jobs within the company with their facilities being numerous and widespread

Cons

Incompetent management; ever-increasing burden on employees by placing more and more responsibility on them over time with little or no increased pay, spreading them way too thin; bottom line is priority one, even at the expense of the quality of their healthcare; preference to keep employee morale low and anxious, consistently fearing possible layoffs or firings, as to keep everyone more willing to accept subpar treatment; no personability between management and employees, i.e., no birthday celebrations, no dinners, little to no employee functions outside of the workday, no notices when people are fired or retire unless they're in good with management, etc.

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Pros

There some flexibility with scheduling and they let you pick up as many shifts as you want and pretty much your own schedule.

Cons

Very poorly managed, chronically understaffed but managers are dismissive and deny it. The support from staff is inconsistent, the staff nurses are either fresh new grads or very bitter nurses who don’t want to help and expect you to handle everything by yourself as a tech. Most nurses here are PRN’s on contracts that get floated so it’s really hard to expect consistency in the staff you work with and build trusting relationships. Management will promise to train you as a unit secretary but will never follow up. They also agree to help you get opportunities for learning and growth but refuse to follow up or forget about it altogether, despite reminders. It’s not a priority. If your goal is to grow and learn more this is not the place. It’s running on fumes at 95% of the time. Very high turnover, we struggle to keep staff. They’ll call you in to pick up when they’re understaffed with no incentive or something minimal like “swag” (some gear). Very poorly compensated and you will not be appreciated for the hard work you do. Also it took 2 months for them to get me started despite numerous attempts to reach the HR, Management etc.

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