HCA Healthcare reviews

Although management asks us what they can do to make our job easier, it feels our genuine concerns are dismissed. We have unsafe nurse:patient ratios for the acuity we are taking care of, we are on the lower end when it comes to hourly pay, we have not ever gotten hazard pay for working with COVID patients during the pandemic, and overall it feels like they only listen to our concerns on certain topics. I understand that there are difficulties when it comes to expensies, but when we see expansion after expansion to the hcs hospitals around the area, it really brings the question of "can you keep enough staff to fill the expanded hospitals?" It seems that there are so few core staff members and there is no focus on retention. Instead, we just keep seeing contract nurses and travel nurses. While we greatly appreciate them helping us stay afloat, it would be nice if there was a focus on actually compensating the staff that has been loyal to the company.

The upper management is losing reality... They think nurses leaving the company and going to travel position is okay... They think it's okay to hire contact nurses at a extremely higher rate ( and I am NOT MAD OR GOING AFTER CONTRACT NURSE AT ALL! GET THAT MONEY) but if you pay the workers that are loyal the same amount your spending 13+ weeks on a traveler there would not be so much turn over and your hospitals will have a better patient to nurse ratio, less falls, less med mistakes. To actually enjoy the work life balance