Ascension reviews

There are too many layers of management, particularly from the director level and up. Mid-level and senior leaders who are located away from their core teams and the hospitals' IT staffs are utterly disconnected from what really happens where the boots are on the ground. Inane decisions are made on a regular basis which creates days and weeks of unnecessary work. Non-sensical IT projects are routinely created simply to justify leadership and system office jobs; meanwhile the negative impact of the same falls upon the front line employees at the local health systems. System-wide solutions often do not meet local hospital customer needs, and again the explanation for that falls upon the front line employees. Poor results from senior level staff/teams are often praised by senior level leaders due to all the hard work put in (ignoring the poor results).

I found the salary and benefits to be deplorable. While in point for RN salaries in the area, new grades were only making $18/hr! That is hardly enough to support a family let alone pay back the student loans most people had to take in order to get their RN. Also, they often tried to push the limit on safe patient ratios. That is not easy for the under compensated nurses or safe for the patients who trust us to keep them alive.