Prós
Many highly skilled & genuinely caring nurses and other clinical staff are employed by this facility. Non-violent Crisis Prevention and Management is taught and practiced. There are several individuals in Management at this hospital, particularly the Director of Nursing, who seem to be truly committed to supporting Nursing Staff, towards the goal of enabling them to provide quality patient care in a safe environment.
Contras
There are safety issues that present risk of patient to patient or patient to staff harm on a daily basis. Despite a significant population of severely ill, court-detained or committed patients, the facility has no security staff. Nursing staff are charged with diffusing / managing violent patients. The facility was chronically, and sometimes severely understaffed. Nurses were typically asked to work overtime on a daily or near-daily basis. Information and medication administration systems were antiquated, in desperate need of upgrade, or better yet, replacement. I suspect that upper management at the parent company level (Universal Health Services) severely restricts capital outlay, even for greatly needed changes and upgrades. Note: I was employed by this company for less than 1 year; there is no selection option below for less than 1 year.