Any nurses have opinions on working at Tenet Hospitals?

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Just looking for opinions and experiences. TY

Specializes in Perioperative Nursing Certificate.

Does anyone know the starting rate for a nurse with one year experience at Hahnemann Hospital in Philadelphia?

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Specializes in ICU, ER, HH, NICU, now FNP.

Tenet left their staff stranded the longest in NOLA. Even when HCA/Columbia was sending their own private rescue choppers in, Tenet was holding out.

Nope. Wouldnt work for them. On principle alone.

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I recently quit my job at a Tenet facility due to internal issues. I will say that I adored most, if not all of the staff that I worked with and will miss them tremendously. Not just the nurses, but the MDs, RTs, and other ancillary staff were all wonderful, or at least bearable!

With regards to Tenet - they really are awful. The administration is notorious for not having any clue what bedside nursing is really about; you are constantly expected to do more with less (e.g. more patients, less staff; get rid of ALL pressure ulcers with the cheapest chux and barrier creams on the market; etc, etc, etc) Every day you go in to work it seems like there is one more form to fill out, and the form they harassed you about filling out for the past 6 months no longer exists. Communication between upper management and bedside staff feels nonexistent. And yes, we have to take a yearly ethics class because of Tenet's agreement with the feds after they defrauded Medicaid for almost $1 billion in California.

Pay was not too bad, competitive for market rates in my area. However, as they say, it takes money to make money, and Tenet is NOT doing very well - it appears to me that by cutting corners wherever they can to save money in the short term, they have severely hurt their future income. There is a LOT of agency at my hospital and nurse retention isnt great.

A caveat - Tenet Healthcare is expected to be to target of a hostile takeover by Community Healthcare Systems within the next few weeks. Check our Bloomberg, WSJ or any other reputable financial news source for more info.

Honestly, it's a job like any other, and I'd consider going back in the future if the price was right. I will really miss the people. However I start soon at a large magnet hospital and I'm not looking back.

Good luck!

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Specializes in Utilization Management; Case Management.

I work at a tenet hospital. I'm a new grad (April 2010), been at this place less than five months. Yea nowhere else is hiring so you have to take what you can get but everyday I leave work I ask myself "Is this really it? Is this what I busted my butt for? It can't be..." I give myself pep talks now as I leave the door so I don't take my work home with me. Very easy to do when ur not so happy a work. A night at my job is 8 pts, two nights ago I had 9 for the first time...you know what sum1 told me "at least no admits!" really??? So yea 8pts no secretary and all the paperwork that comes with working night shift. Heaven forbid you has 6pts when you get there...when you drag yourself home after no bathroom break and no lunch break you definately had 2 admits... On the positive I've seen a lot but I don't feel like I'm doing what I thought I would be. I don't have enough time to help my patients and really be a nurse to them and that bothers me bc I thought I was going into the business of caring not the nusiness of making money...but hey there are nurses who have been at my job for 20 30 yrs...maybe I'm just a different breed.

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I would not work for them except they bought the hospital where I have worked for so long. So, they have me. But I am kind on my last leg and totally run into the ground. I have been reading all the comments about them as a company and their different clinics, hospitals,etc. I'm both amazed and somehow comforted by the total summation. Low staffing, penny pinching, exhausting, hoop jumping , miles of paper work (and that's just your yearly evaluation),bone breaking work. These are comments from other nurses at other facilities that just match mine perfectly! Wow! So it's not just me. Thanks, for your honesty everyone out there, oh and new grads Beware ! It is a tough market out there , but if your are not into self mutilation or feel you have some penance to repay God for previous sins, I would look elsewhere.

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Seems like the comments about Tenet are mostly bad. But I also think that almost all hospitals will find somebody complaining about them.

There are a lot of new grads out of work. What if Tenet was the only game in town? Would you hold out for something better?

But the person you encounter in the Tenet HR office has to talk to you before you can apply for, and get a job there.

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Wow. I have recently resigned a position at Wbmc one of the Tenet facilities here in Florida. My question is, why I did not do researched this website first? The great thing is that I was able to quit my job after working there for 5 months. This place is insane! Each coment here is not joke, all of them matches exactly what I have experienced there. I am totally In disagreement in how they practice medicine. For a nurse is just a very unsafe environment. Run...they pay you well but they will squeeze every peny from you, nonetheless they may even put you in a dangerous position...think twice before working there..low staffing, high ratios, not unit secretaries, you name it. Run...and be safe! By the way in the job offer they make you sing an arbitration, please run...don't even take your fam there as a patient..

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