Seton Healthcare Network Reviews in Austin, TX Area

Pros

It is really a nice place to work. They encourage you to take care of yourself so that you can adequately take care of the patients.

Cons

It is open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week so the ideal schedule is often not possible and you must work many holidays.

Advice to Senior Management

No advice, for the most part it is very good.

Pros

Pay is good for the position, they offer good benefits, and I have some great coworkers. Keeps you busy, never boring.

Cons

The main issues I have had have been with management, the biggest one being their inability to adequately make schedules and to have enough employees to cover all areas.

Advice to Senior Management

Think more about the circumstances of your employees and be more open to their needs and schedules. Basically appreciate your employees more.

Pros

As a part of compensation package Seton gives lots of vacation, and has no issue with you taking it. No expectation to work 90 hrs a week.

Cons

If you aren't clinical, opportunities for growth are minimal

Advice to Senior Management

Nurses should not necessarily be the top choice for upper level management.

Pros

You can gain a lot of experience as to what to do and what not to do, as the network is full of managers who can give you this insight from both perspectives.

Cons

The left hand often does not know what the right hand is doing. At the same time, they are trying to grow / change their operations frequently. This makes for a big mess for a manager to handle.

Advice to Senior Management

Make sure all stakeholders are on board, and consider the consequences affecting patient care, prior to initiating change. Stop / take a breather.

Pros

Best work life balance I've ever experienced

Cons

Pay a little on the low side, and you feel a little left out sometimes if your not on the clinical side of things.

Advice to Senior Management

Overall they manage well!

Pros

Excellent benefits, large network with an abundance of opportunity for all positions. Higher education encouraged, very high standards and expectations of performance criteria. Magnet facility with respectable reputation in area.

Cons

Treatment of employees from department to department not consistent. In some cases, favortism is exhibited. Would reccommend anyone applying be given a tour an opportunity to meet curent employees, ask questions, and get a feel for if it's an appropriate fit.

Advice to Senior Management

Be consistent in your treatment and expectations of all employees. Consider the impact on your good workers when allowing those who do not perform (but have tenure). Time in an organization alone is not indicative of the quality of one's work.

Pros

They gave us the most support if we wanted to improve ourselves. Advancement and other transfers are definitely pluses. The work day is filled, making time fly. It has a very active social network, also. This ensures team work.

Cons

Distance from Lakeway. Nothing wrong with the company.

Advice to Senior Management

Keep up the good work rewarding outstanding work.

Pros

Great compensation and benefits. It's a large network with lots of opportunities for growth. As a non-profit, most if not all employees seemed truly concerned about their patients & giving back to the community.

Cons

The religious affliation was a downside to me. It does seem to permeate the atmosphere. It is a large & complex organization so depending on who you work for & in what department you can either thrive or stagnate. I started working in a department that was really fragmented and had so many internal problems that I was not appropriately trained to do my job. I felt like I was just treading water for the 2 years I worked there. It was very frustrating and eventually lended to my leaving.

Advice to Senior Management

Senor Management needs to take active role in every department at Seton.

Pros

You won't be over-worked and getting time off is never a problem. Deadlines are pretty much optional and working arrangements are pretty flexible.

Cons

There is no accountability and no merit promotions. So, every year, if HR decides a "market adjustment" is needed for a particular job code, everyone in that job code receives the same percent increase in pay (which usually only amounts to two to three percent anyway). The culture is very centered around "tribal knowledge" which gives certain long standing members of departments much more job security than they should have. A common management tactic for addressing problems is "ignore it and see if it goes away".

Advice to Senior Management

Start running the organization like a real business where people are held accountable.

Pros

Opportunities to improve processes. Opportunities to introduce innovation, open standards, open source software.

Cons

immature healthcare IT ecosystem. petty, political, obstructive management environment.

Advice to Senior Management

Hire from outside the industry at competitive rates. The industry's uniqueness and the necessity of unique solutions are overrated.