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registered nurse - anaesthetics

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Gold Coast Private Hospital

I’ll preface this by saying that I am a nursing student that was given placement here for upwards of eight weeks a number of years ago. 

So I wasn’t paid (standard) but they still expected the students to arrive at least 15 minutes early to debrief. They expected me to take on 5-7 patients (post op) in the first week of my placement. They would expect you to BEG preceptors(a different one every day) to fill out feedback forms (on top of all your other placement work) every.single.day. Basically a performance review every shift. The toxicity from management was mental. Even just walking past the admin desk every day you could hear them talk in a very unprofessional way to other staff. The computer systems end at the front desk- if you’ve got a doctor with messy handwriting, you better pray that staff can interpret it correctly and at the right dosage. Sometimes we would go looking back into patient charts just to find a doctors handwriting to compare it to what we needed to interpret at the current time (charts are upwards of 300 pages each). 

I started working at Gold Coast Private with the belief it would be an organised, professional and successful organisation. I was wrong. 
It started with one of the worst working environments I have ever encountered, mixed with no direct manager or team leader nor any formal training on computer programs, the way the hospital runs or anything of the sorts. 

Then when I transferred roles, I was given less than the bare minimum in training, thrown in to the deep end and expected to go above and beyond. When offered help, I took it, until the manager decided it wasn’t working for them any more. There was little support given to enhance my training and management did not want to listen to it. 
 
The internal staff are lovely and I made some great connections. If you ever decide to work here, remember that it is a private hospital for a reason and you will have to prove yourself within 5 minutes of walking in the door. 

Good team however the communication is poor. Nurses to nurses handover is poor at times due to time constraint. Management are not updating and not communicating with the staff member. They would always assume that everything will be agreeable with tge staff even though at times their decision is against the workers will. During ward closure, they would send the nurses to different and at times unfamiliar ward making the workers incomfortable and anxious to work. At the end of the day, they will turn their backs and tell that they are hired under Healthscope and not under the ward that hired them- :(

Loved the training, as I was still keen to work for nothing for 3 weeks.
Loved learning new things in a hospital environment.
Management very professional and very friendly.
Although Supervisors, Very Aggressive, Loud, Foul mouthed and 
very rude.I feel they had no people skills when it came to supervising and working in a Team Enviroment.
Loved working with patients, they made my day at work worth it.

Great place to work I've worked here for 30 years. 
Great friendly staff that really care about each other.  We are like one big happy family. Every one is very caring, kind and very professional. I have a lot going on in my life and the staff here have always been there for me and my family.

Workplace bullying is a huge issue from staff, NUMS and Management; which is a known issue with HR but nothing gets done. 
Lack of training for new staff. 
Staff overworked with lack of support or help from management in fixing that.
Poor morale on the wards, incompetent nursing staff on wards.

Poor quality hospital, this hospital is only worried about making money and not relly care about their nursing team or providing good health care service to patients.

Workplace bullying, management lacks support. No training for new staff. Unreasonable expectations and bullying by NUM. Staff overworked. Poor morale on the ward. Unsupportive rostering. Foul language by senior staff

Weekly operating list performing oral surgical procedures on private patients.
The admission process, patient experience from entering the hospital to having their procedure done and being discharged, overall is very good.

Career progression and promotion almost impossible unless your a favourite, no loyalties to long standing nurses, wards full of junior and inexperienced nurses 

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Registered nurse 14 salaries reported	$78,571 per year
Clinical nurse 8 salaries reported	$91,250 per year
Administrative officer 4 salaries reported	$52,500 per year
Registered nurse - anaesthetics 3 salaries reported	$71,667 per year
Nurse 3 salaries reported	$65,000 per year

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