Pros
No weekends, overnight, holidays and call for now. Diversity of cases, large staff for help during emergencies. Many campuses available throughout the city, but you cannot choose to be based at any one of them fyi.
Cons
It was an amazing place to work until new management a year and a half ago. It then became a punitive environment of fear, and low morale. This is the only place anyone has heard of that will track when you are not in a case, and will question why you weren't working every single minute, and try to dock minutes. It is worth pointing out that in our profession, we are often waiting for emergent cases, facilitating ICU transport, stabilizing the patient etc, in which we are not in a surgical case but we should certainly be paid for our time. Upper management beyond our direct manager also seems to be enforcing this to all departments of nursing so beware. The cutting in spending is a large driving force of how departments are being run, but it is pushing staff to the edge and many have quit, and departments are having a hard time keeping/finding new hires. Another issue that we consistently have is frequent reassignment to the other campuses without adequate warning, often late the night before. There is not a transparent methodology to how this is done, and seems to be correlated with the inability to staff the campuses correctly ahead of time (transfers will and have always happened, but not to this degree and last minute). Also it is probably the only university teaching hospital that does NOT offer education funds. Other problems that are not within our direct manager's control is parking fee is outrageous, shuttle hours were cut during COVID but never went back to the full hours, even though staff is now expected to work full time and then some, and vacation is the least amount of any place I have heard of.