Pros
Free parking. Potential for days shifts.
Cons
Denied nurses 403B matching this year, denied cost of living adjustment. Denied shift differentials given to west side. You will work every other weekend on schedule. Not just two weekends a month. If you want a day off on a weekend, you have to find your own coverage. Base pay is now less than trinity and henry ford and leaps and bounds below UMich. The insurance is so awful, I had to do a double take, "wheres the other option?". It is a facility run with consequences instead of incentives. There are allowing less flex/ nrt nurses (resource/fill in for a shift nurses) to save money. So when there are 15 holds in the ED and you have 5 empty beds at shift change, you will NOT get an extra nurse- they will throw any admits at existing staff and tax them out. They have slowly and strategically added infinite number of tasks to nursing that were previously performed by other departments. Nursing is now responsible for toasting patients toast. They count how many graham crackers they give the floor. Nurses week will be a free cookie from a table in front of the cafeteria, possibly with a thank you card with your name spelled wrong as mine was. There was a shooting at Troy on the campus. Staff was not alerted until hours after. But all the nearby schools were on lockdown. Tina Freese Decker makes 5 million dollars but all I heard at orientation was isn't it great theres a nurse in upper management? I don't know any real RN that makes that much. Non profit who's definitely profiting. I made the mistake of confusing the reputation of Beaumont Royal Oak with Corewell Royal Oak. In hindsight, I would have sought employment anywhere else had I know how much this corporation was insistent on circling the drain down to shaving a few cents from saltine crackers. And of course, the patients complain to you about the response time of call lights etc, not the fact that management has loaded you with more than is reasonable to round on hourly. Also noticing a trend of milking patients for every last test and scan. a 100+ woman for a cardiothoracic consult, but would need to wait "three days" for it, just sitting there muscle wasting away. Patients sitting for a whole weekend for something they could schedule outpatient. I don't even feel good about the care plans I am executing for patients. Zero assistance for safety. One metal detector that can be bypassed by ten other entrances. Patients have gotten to the floor with guns, knives, scissors. You know what's scarier than a metal detector? A psych patient with a knife who came in via stretcher and wasn't scanned. Self scheduling means nada. I had to burn all my pto to have my sons graduation off when I had four other days I would have happily worked. Forget work life balance