It was OK for awhile - Materials Manager Select Medical Employee Review

2.0
Apr 17, 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Occasionally you get some free lunch.

Cons

Things started off ok here, but the workload became unbearable. The job is decent and salary is ok, but you're expected to babysit some of the nursing staff. I got blamed for things not being stocked when it was right in front of their faces. There was too many meetings especially during the busiest time of the month and most meetings served no purpose. Staff wouldn't communicate supply needs until it was too late. Expensive equipment was lost and no one was held accountable, but I was forced to spent a good amount of time looking for it. Got blamed for things out of my control (backorders, equipment pick-ups, low staffing). Was responsible for trying to find temp staff for my department, train them daily since they were usually new and help train the other materials manager at the other location (who later stepped down due to lack of staffing). Tolerated years of a nurse manager who was bully and had multiple staff quit because of her. My role quickly became a catch-all for building maintenance, environmental services and computer repair. You'll get called on weekends and the last several months was only able to take half day vacations as there wasn't enough assistance. Took a week off and things fell apart and got blamed for that too. Ended up losing a week's worth of vaca time since you can only carry over 2 weeks and wasn't able to use the rest due to be short-handed. Attendance policy is archaic (people get sick and that includes kids)

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Cons

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Pros

The pay is better than most places- but for a reason. Rehab team fabulous.

Cons

Greedy for-profit system. Benefits are terrible. Unsafe patient assignments. This patient population is critically ill, unstable, and often come with infections, pressure injuries and other conditions they acquired at the sending hospital. Most packed ICUs send patients here when they aren’t progressing fast enough or about to die. You often have 5 of these patients at a time on ventilators, critical drips, complex wound treatments, etc. Due to high staff turnover you are often working with a staff who was rushed through orientation and hired with no acute care experience. Their clinical liaisons often withhold or fail to assess for pertinent information prior to them arriving and they often make promises to the families and patients that are untrue (they get paid bonuses to bring in patients- regardless of their outcomes). If you become a charge nurse expect to have a full patient assignment while rounding with providers, running codes, and doing admissions. Don’t expect support from your local leadership team as their expectations from the regional team are too high and they are also overburdened with responsibilities.

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