Employee Review
- 5.0May 30, 2023
Company Review
Registered NurseCurrent Employee, more than 10 yearsChesapeake, VAPros
Excellent company to work for - I've been with Sentara since 2001. Sentara has good benefits (although the benefit package has been revised since I started), and it cares for its people. I began working at Sentara Norfolk General Hospital (PACU and OR) and moved to the Sentara College of Health Sciences as an RN educator. Sentara's Corporate is very supportive of educating the next generation. At the College, the management team is absolutely wonderful. In this educator role (specific to taking students to the hospital for their clinical experience), I have gone to multiple Sentara facilities besides SNGH, including Sentara Careplex Hospital, Sentara Obici Hospital, Sentara Princess Anne Hospital, and Sentara Leigh Hospital. I have personally never taken students to Sentara Virginia Beach Hospital but other faculty speak highly of the facility and its people.
Cons
Not so much a "con" against Sentara, however, since I graduated from nursing school 35+ years ago, the profession has always been short-staffed; there are units within Sentara's hospitals that struggle with staffing numbers. Covid didn't help that either. SNGH is a level 1 trauma center and can be a "tough crowd" - you have to know your stuff.
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Cons
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- 1.0Aug 20, 2023Registered Nurse, BSNCurrent Employee, more than 5 yearsSuffolk, VA
Pros
Honestly none, its just a job and a really terrible.ome at that
Cons
Unsafe working conditions, management cares about thier productivity and nurses work short staffed every single day to make these hospitals money at the expense of pt care and the mental wellbeing of the nurses. They make you work for a minuscule merit increase per.year which doesnt even meet inflation.and this year completely cut out nurses from.market adjustment raises when inflation is at an all time high. How convient after they went on the news boasting during covid about 5 percent raises..... well now they are taking it back bc guess what nurses dont get them this year now that covid is over. The have forced overtime shifts as well.... the expectations are unsafe unrealistic and the pay is poor. Experience isnt values what so ever here and neither is loyalty. They will just replace a nurse with a new grad nurse who doesnt know a thing but will be a body at a cheap rate
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