Beaumont Hospital

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I am writing in hopes that someone may have some information on Beaumont Hospital's SICU, I believe there is more than one. Does anyone have a rough idea what they might pay a SICU RN with seven years experience???

Specializes in ICU/Critical Care.

Oh ok. I'm sorry you are going through that.

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Specializes in Neuro/Trauma SICU.

I will have a year this week in the SICU at Royal Oak. I am happy with my unit and job. I see a lot, and the pay is competitive. My manager holds people accountable, is fair, and leaves you alone. At Royal Oak the critical care tower is as follows: 2 East is a 20 bed Cardiac SICU, 3 East is a 14 bed Neuro/Trauma SICU with 6 Surgical Progressive beds, 4 East is a 20 bed MICU, 5 East is a 20 bed Neuro/Trauma SICU, and 6 East is a 20 bed non-surgical CCU. We are a Level 1 Trauma center. There are plans to build a addition to the EC, a new OR, and a new 40 bed critical care area(so we hear). Oh yeah, midnight shift diff is $2.50. Weekends and Afternoon shift diff is $2.00. Hope this helps.

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Specializes in cardiology, psychiatry, corrections.
I have been working for Beaumont, Royal Oak for four months. I was a LPN for two years before graduating from my ADN program in August '08. Last Monday, my grandmother passed away. I checked with Employee Relations, and as a full-time employee I was entitled to three bereavement days. I went to work yesterday (I only took Monday, Tuesday, and Saturday off), with proper documentation of funeral attendance, and my manager accused me of "calling in" during the Christmas holiday! (By the way, I was scheduled to work Christmas and did not take this as a bereavement day, and I got placed "on call" due to overstaffing!) My unit is constantly overstaffed, and nurses are regularly placed "on call," so if I'm not needed that day, I either have to take time out of my bank for pay or not get paid for that day. My manager went on to say that "calling in" made things difficult for the other nurses. I understand that, but I found out on a Monday morning of my grandmother's passing, and there was not much I could due in regards to timely notification. Her blatant disregard for my recent loss has seriously made me think of looking at other hospitals. I want to be a OR nurse, and have heard that certain DMC facilities will train new grads.

Beaumont has a lot of great benefits and opportunities, but they do a lot of things differently there and after this, I am just not sure it is for me anymore. I went there with the intentions of working full-time, and even picking up overtime, and due to the recent financial difficulties, this is not happening. Any thoughts, or am I overreacting?

I am sorry this happened to you. An acquaintance worked there for a very short time and hated it there. She didn't get into a lot of specifics but said that it's a very good hospital for patients but management is rotten to the employees.

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I am very sorry that you lost your Grandma, at Christmas also...that manager will get hers, just feel sorry for her...what a ...

When I lost my last Grandma in 2006, I found out at work, at Providence Hospital (I was a tech then), in the morning, I had a "little" panic attack (I could not stop shaking and crying), they sent me in the chapel to talk to the priest and after that they send me home for three days, nobody even asked me for paperwork and my Grandma was on another continent...later I worked so hard there, that I collapsed two disks in the same day and they let me rot with no medical help for one year, on Work Comp that didn't pay after one month...diferent things, different behaviours (good with me when I lost my Grandma, but very cruel when I lost my health, working hard for them).

In between that job and today I became a nurse, I have seen so much disappointing stuff, that it makes me sick to my stomach. I have changed jobs, in order to avoid covering up and acting like other people, but basically it is the same thing everywhere...there are just two places I didn't try yet (two major medical systems), but they can't be any different. I am an exemplary woman, mother, nurse...but those are not qualities that they are looking for. I am doing agency now and I had my share of disappointments here, also...a funny thing...at Christmas, patients kept giving me candy, notes etc. the other nurses hated my guts...you get the idea...and I never mistreated any co-worker in any way and I am just myself with the patients, I never kiss up, I just genuinely care about everybody and treat them with utmost care and respect.

Forget what the manager did and if you like your unit, stay...it is not a good time to move around. It is the same everywhere, the rat cage syndrome...the way we shoot ourselves in the foot in the medical field, it is not enough that there are not enough nurses, but the ones we have, let's treat them like garbage, so they can quit and we can be even more shortstaffed.

Stay in your unit, if you like it, it is almost the same everywhere...

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Specializes in ICU/Critical Care.

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