Hamilton General Hospital Employee Reviews

Generally busy at various levels; Good team work and collaboration; some aspects of work are fragmented but opportunity to pursue higher learning and new experiences

Pros

Multi-disciplinary collaboration

Cons

Busy practice with long hours

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Extended scope and experience as an RPN

Registered Practical Nurse (RPN) (Former Employee) - Hamilton General - 31 August 2022

Extended surgical/trauma scope of practice for an RPN. Same scope of practice as RN with same pay scale as RPN in LTC. There is no such thing as a stable patient. It does give an RPN an opportunity to experience skills that would challenge any nurse.

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Work at another hospital if you can

Extern (Current Employee) - Hamilton Canada - 11 August 2022

Disconnect between business majors in management and front line healthcare workers leads to significant loss in productivity and strained relations. Disgruntled staff.

Pros

You get paid decently as it is public sector

Cons

Everything else

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Ok place to work

Environmental Aide (Former Employee) - Hamilton, ON - 25 July 2022

Depends where you’re working/what you’re doing. An okay place to work. For the most part people are nice. The cafeteria is really good. Employee parking is expensive but you can find street parking.

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helped deliver water to patients

volunteer (Current Employee) - Hamilton, ON - 30 April 2020

i volunteered at Hamilton General Hospital for over 4 years and i help deliver water, books, and even call for appointments reminder to elderly patients, i enjoyed it because i made me feel like a was doing something good for the community and gave me a great pressure.

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Good Place to work

Deployment Technician (Former Employee) - Barton Stree - 15 December 2019

Very welcome people to work with a good team work. Nice workplace environment. The staff were very attentive to people’s attention and gave a good care of patients in the Hospital.

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Great Place To Work

Food Service Worker (Current Employee) - Hamilton, ON - 18 October 2019

All the staff are very friendly, and understanding. It is a home feeling environment, it’s not just co workers, it’s family. If your debating on where to apply, the Barton Bean is definitely the place!

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Good workplace.

Registered Nurse (Current Employee) - 5 west - 15 October 2019

Busy days, but well managed. Good team. Good work environment. The days can be very busy, but the team works well together and helps each other. Do not like the 2s and 3s schedule.

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Amazing Work Place

RPN (Current Employee) - Hamilton, ON - 20 June 2019

Hamilton Health Science is an amazing work place I have enjoyed my experience and career within this corporation I have learned so much throughout my career and the co-workers are amazing

Pros

Excellen work Place

Cons

No Cons

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very good work envirnment

Student Respiratory Therapist (Former Employee) - Hamilton, ON - 25 April 2019

lovely people, very fast paced environment. Hamilton general hospital is the neuro, cardiac, and trauma center so you see a lot of very interesting cases and there is great learning opportunities there.

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Clinical Experience (Current Employee) - Hamilton, ON - 25 October 2018

Clinical experience productive, great learning environment. My colleagues are helpful and respectful. Great opportunity and connections made during my time here so far.

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Great place to work

RPN (Former Employee) - Hamilton, ON - 3 October 2018

I enjoyed my time here. Unfortunately I moved and the commute was too long and my finished school (so I was on to different learning opportunities to expand).

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In general a nice place to work

Research Assistant (Research Internship) (Former Employee) - Hamilton, ON - 9 May 2018

Work environment safe and comfortable. Staff are friendly and helpful. Always able to find good training opportunity here if you would like to improve yourself.

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Overall stable company to work for

Registered Nurse - Emergency (Current Employee) - Hamilton, ON - 7 March 2018

BIg cooperation. Good learning opportunities, however nurses are understaffed and not prioritized - however big developments and changes are happening which may or may not lead to even more shortages due to all the money being spent on new updates for recently built hospitals instead of staffing crisis.

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A place to live and save lives

Neurosurgery Nurse (Current Employee) - Hamilton, ON - 5 August 2017

Hamilton General is a place to start a real professional life. You will experience busy shifts, you will see different procedures, you have the chance to meet medical staff from all over the world. Salary is reasonable. Management is doing a good job in there. All employees and students are very friendly and supportive. We sometimes have fun together in places out of the hospital. All in all, I suggest you apply for it!

Pros

Highly Scientific Place

Cons

Busy busy busy

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Great first Nursing job

RN (Former Employee) - Hamilton, ON - 23 May 2017

Excellent first Nursing job. Enjoyed working here, learned a lot, but found shift work very challenging. Worked for 3 years on Orthopedics. Orthopedics can be a heavy floor, but found the staff excellent when I was a new grad.

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Very supporting and friendly

Acute Medicine - RN Student (Former Employee) - Hamilton, ON - 15 March 2017

As a nursing student I had many people supporting me through my learning in the acute medicine unit; It is truly a unit that works as a team to take care of patients, and nurses are very friendly.

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Great learning experience on the unit

Registered Nurse (Current Employee) - Hamilton, ON - 25 January 2017

I have had the privilege to work with the most committed and hardworking nurses in the field. They are very approachable and supportive to new nurses! I have had many learning experiences on the unit. It was a great environment for me to improve myself as a nurse and grow as a new nurse.

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Expansive learning experience

Volunteer (Current Employee) - Hamilton, ON - 19 September 2016

A great way to expand my interest in the field of medicine and learn more about a typical work day for some in the hospital.

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Engaging, Productive, Fast Paced, and Challenging

Hospital Volunteer (Former Employee) - Hamilton, ON - 16 September 2016

As a Volunteer At Hamilton General Hospital, I Enjoyed working there for a lot of reasons. First, new engaging and enthusiastic environment. Second, Dealing with all kinds of people from Professional to Patients and Visitors and Co-Workers and Medical Students.

Pros

Free Coffee

Cons

Volunteers Should be allowed to be more Involved.

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Staff members are very pleasant to work with.

Student Nurse (Former Employee) - Hamilton, ON - 19 August 2016

I consider myself lucky for being able to work in Hamilton General Hospital. My experience there taught me the importance of time management – my preceptor didn’t pull any punches, and was extremely deadline-driven. Staff members' no-nonsense attitude pushed me to work harder, and manage my case loads way more efficiently. I worked there as a rehabilitation nurse responsible for the medication preparation and administration to patients with acquired brain injuries. I participated in round table discussions on best treatment practice and helped craft care plans for specific patients. Administration work included admitting and discharging patients, processing orders and transcribing medications. I collaborated with and demonstrated leadership qualities when working within an inter-professional team. The hardest part of the job was taking care of myself while taking care of others. Getting enough sleep and eating healthy food was challenging especially when it gets busy on the floor. The most enjoyable part of of the job was seeing patient from being ill to being well and working with awesome, fun and caring staff members.

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