Pros
Pay is decent, but could be better with the amount of overwhelming responsibility and stress that comes with the job.
Cons
A very overwhelming place to work, especially when they thought giving nurses 5 patients was ok. Although, they have been trying to give us 4 patients on average now, which has been better. Nursing is expected to do many jobs besides their own. Everyone has the same hours in a day but nurses are expected to get it all done in more hours somehow. You have therapy, but nursing is still expected to do a lot of the mobilities. You have techs, but nurses do all the blood draws, vitals signs, and blood sugars. You have respiratory but nurses have to be the ones to check on all the lights and suction and stay down our hallways at all times, among other things. Nurses are always the go-to with anything that goes wrong and responsible for it all, so it feels like there is not much support or help to do it all in the same amount of hours as everyone else has.