Northside Hospital Reviews

Current Employee – been working at Northside Hospital part-time for more than a year

Pros – Great salary, great PTO, wonderful supervisor.

Cons – Hard to transfer, HR leaves jobs on the list that have already been filled.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Northside Hospital full-time for more than a year

Pros – Discounted Marta Card, paycheck pays the bills

Cons – Managers micro-manage, no respect for workforce, little to no thought to work/life balance

Advice to Senior Management – Send out annual anonymous employee surveys to find out how employees really feel. Let supervisors be supervisors.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Northside Hospital full-time for more than a year

Pros – Good internship program. Benefits are good. Good reputation in Atlanta area. Depending on what floor you are on, willingness to help each other.

Cons – Usually short staffed. No float pool to cover shortages. Equipment shortages. PCTs do not have phones on some floors, so spend a good amount of time looking for them to get information you need about the pt's VS before you can pass meds. Nurses often do not have phones.

Advice to Senior Management – Better communication with staff.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Northside Hospital full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Good pay, focused on tasks, pension plan, annual raises, motivated management

Cons – Traffic trap, low potential for career development, low enthusiasm towards professional education

Advice to Senior Management – Please boost staff retention program, please enhance training on-site programs for current students

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Northside Hospital full-time for more than a year

Pros – Great benefits, friendly staff, friendly people in hr, classes offered to advance employment, & pretty good hours.

Cons – Hard to make transitions from department to department, & pay is very competitive.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Northside Hospital full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Reasonable work life balance
Reasonable pay

Cons – Antiquated HR regime/people management
Technologically lagging behind other organizations in the industry
High employee negative turnover
Nontransparent promotion process
Lacks communication between management and staff at all levels
Two weeks PTO for the first five years

Advice to Senior Management – Consider investing in human assets
Consider employee satisfaction
Consider a fair promotion process
Need/Better communicate behind decision especially employee impacting ones

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Northside Hospital full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Best Women's Services in the South. Oppurtunities to grow and advance..FMLA, short term disability, long term disability, 401 K

Cons – Attendance policies and some benefits vary per department. Insurance is not as good as some hospitals. Medical floors are almost always full and understaffed. Poor lighting in parking garage. Worker's Comp after injury is not user friendly. No sick days all days are PTO, FMLA kicks in after being out for 2 weeks.

Advice to Senior Management – Take care of emploees, work more on team building, don't accept sub-standard work from some and then demand others to pick up the slack.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Northside Hospital as an intern for less than a year

Pros – Opportuniy, as a new RN, to get great experience in Women's Health

Cons – Orientation is misleading. You are strongly advised to ask for help from your clinicians as needed, however, each clinician gives you completely different information. You are expected to attend class, take tests, learn the floor routine, and take a full load of patients, 4-5 couplets, on your own by week 3-4. This can be overwhelming for any nurse, especially a new nurse. The worst part is that you sit in class for hours listening to how important it is to be supportive, & non judgmental, & to help one another when in fact, your being treated like you are still in nursing school, and that your time off is not your own. Your schedule is constantly changed at the last minute, which makes child care very difficult.. I was so excited to work here, but I'm now thinking I made a mistake. We may be new nurses, but we should be treated with respect. We should also not be afraid to ask for help from the orientation staff which is supossed to be there to help us. We take a test after we are hired that we must pass to continue, and then we have to take another test while we are in orientation to stay on. Orientaton is a time to learn and work as a nurse with a preceptor so that you are prepared to be on your own. Testing should be used to identify areas in which the new employee may require more instruction, it should not be punitive or used to fail. If a new employee is not given a fair opportunity to learn during orientation, it is not the new hire that has failed, it is the orientation staff who has failed the new hire as well as the organization. Orientation is costly, especially when the end result is the inability to retain the new employee.

Advice to Senior Management – Keep in touch with the people you are responsible for. Make sure they are doing what's best for all new employees. Remind them that their role is to help facilitate the new hire, so that they want to continue to work there way after orientation. An organization and a strong effective manager is only successful if the new employees they hire are set up to succeed, not fail. Communication is always important. If you expect a new nurse to educate her patients by providing good communication, she must also receive good communication from her facilitators.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Northside Hospital

Pros – The biweekly check pays the bills.

Cons – No one cares about how well you preform. All anyone cares about is how well you can kiss up.

Advice to Senior Management – Start treating your most productive employees with respect

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Northside Hospital

Pros – Competitive pay and benefits package.

Cons – Those who were willing to be yes men and women were promoted while those who tried to help enhance practices were gagged or fired. Unstable and abusive management styles made workers feel they could do no right and jobs were at risk. Very little praise was given for a job well done even when it was being done with minimal supervision and resources.

Advice to Senior Management – Have people in management positions who are familiar with the best practices for the population and facility you are working with.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend