Vanderbilt University Medical Center Reviews

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Grant-dependent
Limited opportunities to move up very far within a department

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They keep high paid employees on when they have no clear responsibilities. They do not get rid of dead weight. They promote inexperienced individuals into management experience. Difficult to move up within department, criteria keeps changing so you can never reach the goal. Employees with more experience are expected to take on the bulk of the work. Leadership needs to be more aware of what goes on with their departments. They need to manage down as well as up. Raises are not based on performance and there are no incentives. Sick days were taken away, so you now have to use PTO when you are sick.

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Can't think of any thing

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Low pay, pay for parking, mandatory retirement contribution taken out of your check,

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Managers hold employees back in positions. Hard to move up with the people that are within, does not pay well.

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Difficulties with communication and strategy remain more than a year following the split with Vanderbilt University
Unclear if medical research is a priority in the mission of the medical center

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no clear career development path

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Lack of transparency institution-wide, low salaries, plenty of red tape especially with HR, hard to work up

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a "work first" culture making it difficult to balance family commitments

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The pay is extremely low. You are not able to attempt to move up the RN ladder until after a year which allows for a couple dollar increase (still below average rate for RN salary) and only after completing a lengthy research project. There is no help with moving costs although if you have 6 months experience and get hired you receive a sign on bonus and help with school loans. There are other hospitals where you can get just as much experience and the hospital's are just as good with a salary that is better correlated to the work you are doing and being valued as an employee. This is the reason the turn over rate is so high it shows how little appreciation there is for the nurses and currently most floors are understaffed more often than not. Look into other hospitals before committing to Vanderbilt.