I worked at the Richland campus. Bad upper management, bad unit managers, and bad nursing directors. They will float staff from their home unit to a unit that is short staffed due to bad management. You will not get paid more for being forced to float. You will get treated badly by the management on the floor you were forced to float too and by the staff on that floor. You will not get any help and feel lost all day. You will work 13 hours without anytime to eat or drink anything. They viewed us as disposable animals and not as people. It was the worst I have ever been treated by an employer. I started working there in 2016 back when it was palmetto health. It is a big hospital so you will see the same issues repeat themselves with nothing ever being done about it. The hospital went down hill in 2021 once they started losing staff due to their terrible floating policy, bad management, and bad treatment of staff members. They would blame nursing for everything and add more task for us to do then blame us if it couldn't be done or charted. I quit January of 2022 when their fired the only good manager there. I couldn't take the bad treatment anymore. I was sick of working 15 to 16 hours and coming home completely exhausted. The nursing director used to visit the unit at 7pm (end of am shift) and get mad about the day shift nurses not being at end of shift huddle but x-ray would be looking for patients at that time and PACU would being sending in post opt patients at that time so in the name of safety we couldn't attend huddle. The nursing director did not care about the staff and only cared about pleasing the CEO. It is not a safe place to work as a nurse. If you believe in treating people like human beings than don't work for Prisma Health Richland, They will view you as a disposable object and not was a human being. We were all just numbers to them. We never mattered.
