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      Ochsner Health

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      Ochsner Health reviews

      3.6

      70% would recommend to a friend

      (2,267 total reviews)
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      Pete November

      71% approve of CEO

      62% positive business outlook

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      Ochsner Health has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 2,267 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Ochsner Health employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Healthcare industry (3.5 stars).

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      2K reviews
      3.0
      Mar 20, 2015

      Stepping stone, unless things change

      Anonymous employee
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      Pros

      Lots of options, many locations to work at

      Cons

      They don't really care about their employees ( especially nurses) , growing to fast and not taking care of current problems. I've seen both the floor as a nurse as well as the more corporate area; turnover is high. Managers don't try to address and fix the problems, new people get hired and the cycle continues. Floor nurses treated terribly with no help. Not enough nurses aids or equipment. Everyone is stressed. Acute patients put on floors where they shouldn't be. Value is not placed on education for nurses, this is terrible considering THEY ARE MAGNET!!!! So of course they use that to attract people but do little in helping their employees. Time off is terrible. You basically choose if you are going to stay home and be sick or if you want to suffer and be able to take a vacation. many people stay in positions because of connections and not skill. Corporate deals with similar problems. management is not interested doesn't care about the huge demands placed on employees , depts are understaffed. They expect more work with less employees!

      1.0
      Mar 10, 2015

      Employment at Ochsner was a disappointment.

      Information services
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      Pros

      Power of One is encouraging. Surgeons preform leading surgeries.

      Cons

      No room for career development inside departments. Must switch around to advance in any way. Leadership and Dept heads will be there until retirement and work very hard to ensure that no one will advance above them. Leadership is under educated and unknowledgable in regards to the work they preform outside of the every day tasks. 5 years in and every major event seems to be a first time effort without any logic behind methods and process. Limited space and resources for employees to preform work.

      2.0
      Mar 4, 2015

      Good and bad experiences here.

      Staff rn
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      Pros

      Ochsner has the best teamwork among nurses I've ever seen. Patient care is top priority, and I would rate it very high. Also, Ochsner has great technology and can treat almost any problem. It's a teaching hospital, so most of the doctors are residents. The doctors and nurses are very good and knowledgeable about what they're doing, and most try their hardest to be compassionate to patients and family. I found the benefits to be VERY good. There's a gym for employees that's free to use. Also, if you're coming to work from Mississippi or someplace far, you can stay at the Brent House (hotel), which is really nice. The restaurants are good and healthy too, although pricey. Another good thing is the scheduling: you put in your request about a month beforehand and management usually honors your desired workdays. Plus, if you want/need some extra hours, you're basically free to work as many hours as you wish (at your own risk or being burned out).

      Cons

      Safety precautions for nurses are not top priority, ex: if you are emptying a catheter of a person with VRE and the front desk calls your phone, you had better drop everything midstream and answer it or they will come and fuss at you. The floors are way too busy and over-stimulating, and you get such an acute patient load that it is common to misplace things, lose things, forget things, etc, thus risking your license. As an aside, management says it has protections in place for its staff but it does not. They don't care if you come to work with the flu, as long as you're a warm body to fill a staff RN's hours. Patient visitors and screaming children get the run of the floor, and are free to distract, heckle and scream at the healthcare providers as they wish. Many (not all) patients treat being on the floor as a free-for-all narcotics buffet, so in essence you are obligated to get people legally lit, knowing they could possibly be going home with a new addiction. It doesn't matter if you're the best nurse in the country, there are patients who WILL complain about you, and your patient satisfaction cards will not mean a thing: management almost always vies on the side of the patient. Again, risking your license. They will not hire more than 2 PCTs per ~50 beds, on a floor where everybody is bowel incontinent. And trust that on a Sunday when the Saints play, these PCTs will call in sick, along with 3 or 4 other nurses, so their load is on YOU, and nobody bats a lash at this (except for the nurses). It's not uncommon to see new nurses crying before the shift starts, just out of contemplation for what may go wrong that day.

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