Pros
Great learning environment, awesome place for new nurses (seriously), opportunity to learn about rare conditions and abnormalities, many specialties and subspecialties, IV team, phlebotomy, charge nurse opportunity surplus, unit becomes your family, took care of many Arabic princes and famous actors JHH is for you if you have a type A personality and enjoy comparing your life to others. Ratios: Cardiovascular PCU 1:3 days, 1:4 nights Ortho trauma 1:5-6 days & nights
Cons
POLITICS! It's exhausting for someone who just wants to do their job and go home; nurses bully their young here, baseline racial targeting (if you are brown skin, you know exactly what I mean) which is strange because of the location, cafeteria selection could be better and have better hours, diet only sodas offered in full sizes, parking is awful and expensive - was more than $120/mo for staff nurses, but for doctors....$0! Managers will black ball you when attempting to advance your career on other units (just lay low). Nurses looking for a calm place to settle down, this is NOT it. Nurses looking for peace of mind, this is NOT it. Nurses looking for a supportive, non-punitive environment, this is NOT it. Travel nurses - this is NOT it. To my brown people: avoid if possible, but you can definitely do it, just lay low with management (no matter how down-to-earth they come off). The culture if for those who enjoy power positions and nurses who do not want to actually be bedside. Many staff nurses hate their home lives and use JHH as a way to control something in their life. My best advice: (1) recognize the individuals that are unhappy at home and minimize contact with them, (2) don't stay at JHH too long