UChicago Medicine Reviews

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The IT department is terrible. It is divided into two entities and one side will claim it is not their responsibility to fix something and you then have to contact the other, who then send you back to the first one. Nothing seems urgent when it comes to fixing an IT problem. Being a nurse might be a hinderance to be hired for certain positions even though being a nurse makes you a better qualified candidate. Administration often times has no clue what is happening at the lower levels of what they are administration for.

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Upper leadership is all a lie. They pretend to care about employees but at the end of the day, everyone is replaceable and it’s all about money. They’ll do anything to save a dollar and don’t really care about patient safety whatsoever. It’s a dangerous place to be as staff or patient.

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I feel like the nurses here had little to no power at all. Some of them really did not know what they were doing because they were not taught to think for themselves. Too many residents running around not knowing what they're doing with very little oversite. Dangerous situations in many instances. Nurses are treated like slaves. Everything about this place is difficult. Clocking in, ordering food for your patients the IV pumps suck, having to request every single medication from pharmacy. The parking is way too expensive Codes are an absolute nightmare and a disorganized messed, They double up on devices, even patients on ECMO in some cases. The educators and mid level managers were out of touch and not really qualified for their roles. I found them to just spout the typical corporate BS. No ancillary support at all.

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HR is a nightmare. It usually takes no less than 5 weeks to start once you've interviewed (not applied). And they can be unclear in their directions. They also don't alway prioritize the employee. An example of this is when an error made an employee not receive their paycheck and there was no hustle to get the person paid ASAP - they just slowly waited like it was another task on a to-do list. Additionally, it's a large institute so lots of bureaucracy and red tape with people in leadership who you never meet.

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Parking can be expensive compared to more suburban or rural settings.

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Management hasn't idea what they're doing

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I have nothing really bad to say about UChicago

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Staff could use support from management, management lacks organizational and communication skills.

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Confusing PTO/not enough sick days per year.