Takes advantage of you in every way. - Psychatric Technician HCA Healthcare Employee Review

2.0
Jun 29, 2021
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Pros

Caring for patients is rewarding at times. Decent system for announcing behavioral codes. Works with your schedule at times.

Cons

Incompetent, detached management that only cares about profit, doles out new inane rules for staff (who are already overwhelmed) to enforce with threats of disciplinary action. Increases census cap without hiring or adequately training new staff. The staff environment is cliquey and will throw you under the bus if you are not someone they favor. Severely underpaid (almost always under industry average) with little chance of mobility/growth within the job. Favoritism among staff and supervisor/unit supervisors. Profit maximization is pervasive and there is little to no employee appreciation - even basic things such as not turning on the A/C or heat to appropriate levels during summer or winter months. Preaches diversity but does not act on the countless virtue-signaling emails - one look at the staffing within upper management and higher career levels will confirm this. HR is not the best, you'll have to do their job for them and ask for appropriate tax forms or get unnecessary amounts docked from your paycheck. Sometimes will miss payments for days and you'll always have to recalculate every paystub to make sure it aligns with your hours worked.

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Pros

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Cons

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1.0
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Pros

There some flexibility with scheduling and they let you pick up as many shifts as you want and pretty much your own schedule.

Cons

Very poorly managed, chronically understaffed but managers are dismissive and deny it. The support from staff is inconsistent, the staff nurses are either fresh new grads or very bitter nurses who don’t want to help and expect you to handle everything by yourself as a tech. Most nurses here are PRN’s on contracts that get floated so it’s really hard to expect consistency in the staff you work with and build trusting relationships. Management will promise to train you as a unit secretary but will never follow up. They also agree to help you get opportunities for learning and growth but refuse to follow up or forget about it altogether, despite reminders. It’s not a priority. If your goal is to grow and learn more this is not the place. It’s running on fumes at 95% of the time. Very high turnover, we struggle to keep staff. They’ll call you in to pick up when they’re understaffed with no incentive or something minimal like “swag” (some gear). Very poorly compensated and you will not be appreciated for the hard work you do. Also it took 2 months for them to get me started despite numerous attempts to reach the HR, Management etc.

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