Healthcare? Scripps, not Healthy Work Environment. Management doesn't Care. - Registered Nurse Scripps Health Employee Review

1.0
Oct 14, 2019
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Pros

I love being a nurse and that helped me endure the ugly politics. Read all the reviews. You will see a theme.

Cons

Read all the reviews on this site. The same theme. BAD management. Corporate culture of bullying, retaliation and targeting employees. You will NEVER get fair treatment once targeted. After 16 years, I have found a healthy Department in the Scripps System. Many of us are "refugees" who fled other Departments. Don't waste 16 years of your life. I know of nurses from 6 other Departments in the system that experienced what I wrote below. I have worked in numerous Departments and have found 2 that are functional. There is NO protection. No union and I am not even big on Unions. Every Refugee has same story. Toxic work environments. You can tell which Departments are the worst because they have jobs posted week after week. We fled departments that had the following. Lazy team, Management missing and playing favorites, if you speak up you will be Written up. Double standards.Catering to MDs and not backing nurses. True story. MD didn't know computer charting, refused to use the help line for assistance, delayed patient care because no orders and the nurse was harassed by Management because the doctor complained about the nurse. Turn the table. If nurse showed up and didn't know basic requirement of the job, I doubt anyone would ever suggest it was somehow the doctor who was the problem. Toxic, toxic, toxic.

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Cons

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Pros

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Cons

If I could give Scripps a negative rating, I would. I’m in my mid-30s and have worked in multiple health systems across the U.S., and this was by far the worst experience I’ve had—largely due to the leadership culture. I frequently worked well beyond my job scope because of inadequate departmental support (functioning as the data analyst for the department, even though that was not my hired position). Despite consistently going above and beyond—essentially functioning as a team of one in a role that typically has 2–3 staff at other centers—my efforts were neither recognized nor valued. Instead, I was often talked down to and disrespected. To make matters worse, I worked as a team of one and was expected to “show up as a leader” without the title, compensation, authority, or respect to match. Over my year there, I experienced unprofessional behavior, including leadership accidentally sending me text messages gossiping about me with inaccurate information, with no apology to follow. When I raised concerns, I was told, “I don’t want to hear about this anymore.” When I requested time off due to burnout after a denied PTO request, I was told there was “no reason” for me to feel burned out and that “all I ever do is complain.”

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Scripps Health Response
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Thank you for your feedback. We’re always looking for ways to improve, and hearing different experiences helps us do that. If you'd like to share more, feel free to connect with our HR team at hr@scrippshealth.org.
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