VCU Health System Employer Reviews

Our job is to deliver safe and qaulity care to patients and family members

At VCU Health Systems you will have the ability to be a part of cutting edge medical care. As an employee of an urban hospital, I am afforded the opportunity to meet a variety of people. My co-workers are friendly, helpful and caring. As a VCU Health System cardiographic technician I strongly believe that I am part of a team. The co-workers and the – more... patients are the most enjoyable part of my workday . The hardest part of the job is not always being able to control every aspect of your patients care. – less

Management too overwhelmed to notice what Managers were doing. Very report heavy environment; lot of checks and balance. Team environment is nill Communication sorely lacking

The outpatient pharmacy is poorly managed. Work ethic is a non issue because the management is clueless to who actually works or doesn't. Your going to work every other weekend, on call shifts, and most holidays. If your needed or not. If you get a chance to apply here, inpatient is where you want to be.

Level I trauma center for central VA. in the middle of the action and groundbreaking medical procedures changing the lives of many.

The hardest part of my job is seeing death everyday.
However, I do love what I do. I enjoy working with people and seeing them go from pain to happiness.
On a slow day, I could have about 7 patients in the treatment area of the emergency room. However, on a very busy day, I could have about 30 patients.

A typical day at work begins with a "Power Hour" of quiet, focused efforts on beginning a productive work day. The work day ensues with collaboration, auditing, quering all in the efforts to achieve the audit goal of the day. Management continues to have an open door policy allowing enough flexibility for employees to feel comfortable to ask questions – more... or discuss concerns. The day typically includes an educational component for other staff to understand compliance requirements as it pertains to documentation, CMS, CPT, ICD-9 standards. – less

Give nursing a great deal of respect and include them as a vital part of the interdisciplinary healthcare team. Encourage nurses to grow within their career.

everyone knows everything about everyone - little privacy. facility seems dirty. staff gossipy. staff under skilled - hard to get skilled workers to come here.

Lots of learning, university based hospital setting. Complex patients.

I went to school at VCU, and decide to work here. They are VERY strict about clocking in 7min before and 7min after your shift, but they only have 2 time clocks for over 100 people. Naturally, this causes problems. The Pyxis system is broken, or out of scrubs at least twice a week. There are NO lockers available, and someone stole my belt once, shoes – more... twice, and my pants more times than I can remember. Management only cares about the nurses, and their happiness. Many of them scrub, so there are usually more nurses than techs, and they treat us like were are expendable. They are very quick to fire techs if the nurses don't like you. Very cluttered, and dirty OR in the center tower with the trauma rooms. I left after a few months. I used to travel, and this was hospital number 15. I was planning on making it a permanent place, because of school, but I could not take the way they treated the other employees. I had a few small problems, but when I saw how they talked to and treated some of the techs that were there for over 11 years, I had seen enough. The nurses get a break and lunch, but for techs they just give a 45min lunch, but it could come at the end of the day, and they say just leave early. (It happens more often than they will say upfront) Finally, anesthesia can do NOTHING wrong! If they come back, and your are not ready, it is the techs fault Always, except during hearts. – less

Great place to work, Advancement opportunities every where. You can transfer to any dept. that you have education in after a year. Education oppurtunities 6 credits every year to any eligible school that is job related. Very diverse place to work.

Overall working for VCU Health System was good, by the hospital being a teaching hospital you meet a lot of great residents. Management the time i was there was horrible, our manager didn;t want us to succeed by not letting us learn all the aspects of the job, she wanted us to just stay in the file room. It was no room for advancement.

Paging doctors, doing all the emergency communications for the hospital.

The laboratory operates much differently than the rest of the hospital - it is more like a factory setting. The management is all about production and does not recognize let alone reward individual accomplishments. As a technician, you will not be included in any decisions about work processes.

Exciting experience for someone who is interested in the medical field. VCU offers so many different careers within its facilities. So many experienced professionals willing to help and show you new and life changing experience .

This job was outstanding . it paid decent and offered many hours of overtime. I learned everyday from many different people .