Tenet Healthcare reviews

Even in California, where we have ratio laws, we are constantly over ratio. The company does not care. They blame it on the pandemic but it has always been like this. They keep staffing at a bare minimum. They expect RN to break techs, they don’t have any break relief, they use managers to break nurses and they don’t want to take care of the pts needs. They cut staff as soon as there are discharges, even 1 hour before the end of the shift. When you have had 9 high acuity pts all day and they start sending nurse home, it’s defeating. I have tried all manners of addressing the issue. They don’t care. It’s all about numbers and profit. The pts are violent and they still won’t staff by acuity. Someone will be severely injured and /or killed by a violent, methamphetamine high pt someday. I have seen the worst assaults on staff regularly. Tenet just doesn’t care about the staff or pts.

This company does not value or support nursing leadership. Leadership at the home office is highly critical and unappreciative of nursing leaders although they have never worked in hospital operations and cannot appreciate the role of nursing leaders. No resources allocated for nursing education or development. Complete lack of emotional intelligence by home office leaders. Advancement is reserved for those who have worked for McKinsey or HCA. They require a distribution of performance ratings at the director level and above that does not permit appropriate rating of the team. You must hit the percentages or they will randomly move people to a lower level of performance. They some how believe this will motivate people to work harder. It is motivating execs to leave.