Values vs Profiteering - Registered Nurse Ascension Employee Review

My team is great - leadership cares about their employees. There are lots of ways to continue your education and I love the medical missions done in the community. No place is perfect, but I've worked for other large healthcare systems in the Indy area and this has been the best one! They have internal employees in place if you want to move into a different role/department.

The charting system is not the best. Most patients and staff are used to EPIC, so moving to that system would be a patient satisfier since it's easy to use and they've probably used it elsewhere, and it would bring new clinical staff up to speed more efficiently. Hopefully one day we will switch.

The patient population can be very rewarding to work with, and there can be lots of different job opportunities but very limited advancement with mainly lateral department shifts if a person is looking for change.

Raises are almost non-existent. The "raise" is a yearly COLA of between 2%-3%. There is no ability to talk to anyone regarding a raise, even the admin staff are fully stonewalled in the overlly corporate monolithic HR style of maintaining "fair" wages. I have worked here for several years and I actually earn less now because my "raises" do not keep up with inflation and the actual cost of living. They maintain their functionality on squeezing as much as they can out of one employer by slowly shifting more job responsibilities called "opportunities" onto you without extra pay or change in title that would get a pay increase. They look to higher level licensed staff to provide more coverage for roles that they won't hire for or cut in departments. They do "organizational restructuring" every 6 months because more staff quit, they don't replace the staff, and tell others to absorb the former FT employees job responsibilities without pay increase and being told not to go into OT.