Toxic disater but pay is slightly better than elsewhere - RPN Humber River Health Employee Review

- For "the first digital hospital" theres an awful lot of paper work. All switch shift forms are paper, there is no text/online bidding system for shift give away. - The unit cannot maintain a manager for more than a year. They cause more problems than they solve - scheduling workers to short shift, giving vacation unprompted, not paying sick pay/over time. - There are several changes being made to the unit and the staff are the last to know, received an email 3 days after a schedule change had been implemented to notify staff. Staff are relocated to other sites resulting in a lack of staff at our site. - The unit feels dirty - the walls, nursing station. There is no proper isolation area. Isolation is only achieved via curtains. - Meditech charting is reduant and slow. The computers are laptops so there is no way to achieve an ergonmic position while at the WOW - Staff argue with each other in front of patients. Often arguments are provoked by the charge nurses who are easily overwhelemed. Coworkers do no respect each other. Nurses will watch you struggle and will report errors/mistakes instead of offering guidance or assistance. - Charge nurses are the least professional of all staff. Inappropriate jokes, harassing staff, have poor empathic communication skills and will often belittle patients when they are upset and esclate a conversation into an argument. - The hospital is very financially focused and even the patients can tell that the bare minimum is provided. In this outpatient unit we have no warm blankets, no pillows, no towels.