Pros
Caring people doing important work. The hospital has so many opportunities for healing, but the implementation falls soooooo short.
Cons
Management, interdisciplinary teams are a mess. Staff are constantly changing, understaffed, making any true teamwork almost...no, not almost...impossible. Varied disciplines (nursing, psychiatry, psychology, social work, techs) don't understand each others strengths or roles, AGAIN making effective teamwork impossible. One more thing that makes teamwork at least challenging...competing philosophies....the hospital runs on a medical model led by psychiatrists, and then you can go to training on the Recovery Model, Micronutrients for mental illness, etc., things the psychiatrists would probably scoff at or at least not entertain. And since they are "in charge," its just a constant conflict between perspectives. Sigh.