Hospital for Special Surgery Reviews

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The units are sometimes short staffed

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Needy, boujee patients. Patient satisfaction is very important as it is a elective surgery hospital. If you do not know how to properly communicate with patients and staff, do not work here.

Cons

Pays well, but in IT you have to go on site 3 days a week to sit in your cubicle on video meetings. IT analysts are not happy, but feel trapped because the pay is good and that is the only thing keeping them. They promise career growth but it is like pulling teeth trying to get promoted. Leadership plays favorites and bends the rules for a select few.

Cons

Everyone wants to leave because of management, they are not hands on and expect things that are unrealistic

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No longer the highest salary for PAs. There is no way to grow in this hospital. Only nurses have options to grow their career within the hospital as they can move to different levels of nursing as well as admin and management jobs. The schedules are terrible for PAs. The schedules are 3 twelve hour shifts, 4 ten hour shifts or 4 twelve hour shifts. The 4 twelve hour shifts shouldn’t be allowed as employees feel burned out after a short time. It’s a 50 hour work week so salary will appear higher but the last 10 hours is base hourly pay. All new shifts that were created include a night or a weekend. The director of the PAs would rather have a great PA leave the hospital than offer a change in their schedule or promotion. All employees working weekends that wish to be relieved from weekends are only given the option to work a 50 hour work week or wait until another schedule off weekends opens, which is incredibly rare.

Cons

Glass ceiling job , hard to do internal transfers, change career paths

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Work life balance isn’t ideal

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My department is highly understaffed and we mainly help with orthopedic spine surgeries. We don't necessarily have shifts so our position has a LOT of OT whether or not we want it. We're there from the beginning till the end of surgery and a lot of times are on our own (support wise) after probation year. Communication between higher-ups and our department can be lacking and it makes us have to speak up on our own, which is supported by our manager but there is no additional push outside of that. We see the growth of spine surgeons and have spoken up about needing more hires and more ssupportbut tend to be dismissed or ignored - especially when we talk about when hiring new people needs to happen so that the appropriate support is given by the time new surgeons start. Instead, we're scrambling to find people to support and basically it limits the surgeons and their needs for us as well - they need us for the surgery and if we dont' have anyone, what can either of us do at this point? It requires both our department and the surgeon to make a tough decision that also impinges on patient safety. It's also safe to say that work/life balance is pretty poor until you get to a more senior position or you get into a team with a surgeon then it gets more manageable, but still like a 3/5 of managing that - but you still grab a ton of OT either way that can be a lot at first.

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The cassettes are heavy and the radiologist make you do back breaking views (merchant and cross table with calibration markers and standing ankles ) on majority of the patients so all the technologist have what seems like assigned surgeons to take care of the slip disks and such. The EOS machines are over used to the point where floor fans from dollar tree are blown to keep the machine from over heating because youre not allowed to open the window. You get asked to skip lunch almost everyday. Calibration markers are put in between patients legs even male patients while standing if you could imagine. Male patients sexually harrass the women techs and are very entitled in that way and your supposed to just get used to it. Most techs like the OR better to avoid the back breaking stress the floor brings. No where to sit whilst on portables so techs sit in stair cases and nooks. Hss has long wait times and double sometimes triple book the room you occupy.

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Baffling management decision regarding staffing and OR scheduling