The Ottawa Hospital Employee Reviews about "full time"

Pros

Good pay. Flexible shifts and lots of potential to move around in the Union

Cons

You need a lot of years to secure permanent full time with the Union

Advice to Management

None

Pros

- Good wages - Best Pension in Ottawa - Easy work

Cons

- Hard to obtain full-time employment -All positions are granted based on seniority - Poor management

Advice to Management

Listen to the demands of your staff, they are the frontline workers of the hospital and they have the best idea of what takes place behind closed doors.

Pros

Great pay, awesome supportive team of nurses, physicians, and PCAs, reasonable hours, possibility for pension and benefits, ability to move around to different positions.

Cons

Glass ceiling and red tape for anyone looking to move up in their career, if you're not an RN or MD, a lot of opportunities are not open to you. Often takes a long time to get to full-time status in a union position, especially if you don't speak French. If you're not bilingual, expect to be severely held back when it comes to finding positions with guaranteed hours.

Advice to Management

Smaller nurse-to-patient ratios would optimize level of patient care and job satisfaction for nursing staff. Turnover and extended stress leave are expensive and harmful to corporate culture.

Pros

In the Rehab Center of the Ottawa Hospital, my colleagues are wonderful, helpful, caring, truly a little family. The pay is fair, so are the benefits. I have heard others complain of management etc, but I have not had any negative experiences.

Cons

There have been cuts made in the past few years, which means it is harder to get full-time work.

Advice to Management

From my experience, keep up the good work!

Pros

Awesome coworkers, awesome caring environment, new and clean facilities, provides a great experience for people to continue learning, helpful staff.

Cons

No current opportunity to go full time, shifts often run later than scheduled, feel rushed at times to get through everything scheduled.

Advice to Management

Offer more oppurtunities for full-time work, extra staff in some departments would be good.

Pros

Our patients are well looked after.

Cons

Hard to get a full time position.

Advice to Management

Hire full time to prevent burnout and overtime pay outs.

Pros

- There are a lot of options to move around to change specialties or enter into management roles. - 24 hour food options - RACE team is very reliable and accountable - Many renovations lately to modernize the units - Bed-specific electronic blood pressure machines at the bedside - Omnicel electronic drug cabinet - Staffing workers genuinely try to grant time off if possible

Cons

- Poor funding priorities (concierge to hold elevators open as a full-time position? I feel like that could be a volunteer position and not an extra weight on our massive debt...) - Change takes a LONG time to be in effect because it's such a massive company - Still paper charting - Beds keep opening and closing causing staffing issues

Advice to Management

Listen to your employees. Notice how much sick time there has been hospital-wide? You're burning us out. Stop trimming the support services and replacing them with things much more convenient for yourselves.