Extremely rare opportunities for internal growth- unless you are an RN or VCU graduate with connections. - Anonymous employee Sentara Health Employee Review

If you are not an RN and did not graduate from VCU or other costly and prestigious MBA/ MHA /MS program you can forget about being promoted to leadership from within. Any opportunities for non- RN leadership positions are given to outside interns with no clinical/ hospital experience. Those positions are frequently given to the - close family friends- children of current or retired C- suite leaders or MDs. Sentara needs to work more to promote from within. Significant review of job descriptions also needs to be done to open up opportunities to Non-RNs. If you have a clinical background outside of RN and the job does not require you to perform bedside nursing tasks- then stop requiring RN / BSN. You are missing dedicated and educated clinically experienced non-RN ( MHA/ MBA/ MS) candidates. Ancillary advancement track is so limited: TC-Mgr and a very few Director positions within Ancillary, which are normally granted to non- clinical VCU graduates. Those that do get to TC or MGR never leave cause there is no where else to grow to beyond those 2 positions, no other new / different positions to even laterally transfer into.