Q&A With Northside Hospital Employees

It is very intimidating to be placed in a room with 4-5 management level personnel all firing questions and trying to read each of there reactions.

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The same questions on dealing with conflict and how many times have you called out and what are reasons for calling out.

How did you deal with conflict

5 management level employees

Rare

No. Very hard. At Cherokee it is all who you know.

How do you deal with conflict?

It is mostly online and at your pace and hard to get questions answered. HR online is where most the larger corporations are going and it would be ok but they usually refer to back to a place you have already checked with and never really get a response for you.

The healthcare options are poor.

March of Dimes. Quite a few.

I like working for a company that gives back to the community.

The mobility is good!

Not enough to move. I was offered 5k. Covered moving trucks. It was a process and took months to receive it after being hired.

The same here. Very small group of good dentist in Network.

The vision option is limited to a small variety of good optometrist.

I suppose the pension plan. It isn’t much and it really designed for someone being there for an entire career. In the past hospitals have given bonus’s based on revenue once or twice a year and held town hall meeting where the CEO and management serve a breakfast and hand out bonuses especially prior to the holidays. I haven’t seen a bonus yet. I haven’t even seen or met the CEO of Cherokee. The benefits are very poor and way too costly.

That management does not have your back. They encourage incident reports and then when you file one you are looked down on. I would also have liked to know that they do not encourage their departments to work together and the doctors buy and treat L&D and SCN but leave the FCC staff out the majority of the time. No team work.

Extremely hard. Cherokee I would say is very much who you know and not what you know.

It is appropriate but not consistent in management following through. Tattoos are all over the place and very unprofessional. L&D and SCN have their own perks while FCC is held to a higher standard. No consistency at Cherokee.

Not consistent and you never know what to expect.

I don’t know about all of NSH but Cherokee has nurses that have never been trained to precept and nurses who have only been off orientation themselves for a very short time. Retention is low.

Residency programs are in abundance. Not hard at all.

I have never experienced so many employees with FMLA. While it is good for some employees, it is abused in my opinion. It’s really hard when you are relying on your co-workers and 4 of 8 can call out at any given time.

The work schedule is not flexible at all. They allow self scheduling but then change the schedule to meet their needs without asking.