Renown hospital in Reno, NV

Just finished contract there, horrible place, laid off 85 travels out of the blue, staff trying to get union going, and they dislike travelers but travelers account for nearly half of the staff. My interview the manager lied about everything and my company was in leaague with the hospital. Worst contract in my 7 yrs doing this kind of work. All I am saying is avoid Renown healthcare system treat you like crap! Also dont use Talemed travel nurse company>

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Does anyone know about standard of care at this hospital? My brother committed suicide in the ER 3 weeks ago....how could this happen???

I'm sorry to hear about your brother, you certainly have my condolences. We cannot necessarily speculate as to the standard of care of this facility. However, this is something you can take up with the facility itself through the proper channels.

Regards,

Robert F
Ultimate Nurse Network, Inc

I remember reading a post on this site some time ago about Renown and how they changed their original hospital name to Renown to improve their image...and the nurse mentioned it was a lousy job.
I hope more nurses post on hospital reviews so we can all avoid a bad assignment.

RichardD wrote:Does anyone know about standard of care at this hospital? My brother committed suicide in the ER 3 weeks ago....how could this happen???

Hi Richard,

The suicide of a loved one is a bone deep pain to try to go on living with. It doesn't go away and never makes sense. Please accept my heartfelt expression of support for you and sorrow for your loss. I've seen a lot of this and believe me when I tell you that the pain touches everyone, including the nurse.

I wish that we could help you answer questions about how your brother ended his life but we can't. What we can do is remember that your brother took his life and died in a hospital when each one of us goes off to work at our own jobs.

I'm glad that you contacted us and hope that you keep in touch. I would ask that you consider doing this one thing if you haven't done so already, contact a support group for the survivors of suicide victims. You're carrying a lot on your shoulders and these people know what that's like. Please don't try to do this alone.

Remember that we're here for you,

R

ginna...My recruiter wanted to submit me to Renown hospital....I was wondering if you could tell me more about your experience, what floor you were on and just any other information you may have. Nevada sounded like it could be fun but i don't want to go to a place that is hostile...

Please contact me regarding your experience with Talemed. I also had a horrible experience with them. I was also interested in going to Renown with TNS, glad something better came along!

Reknown is one of the worst hospitals I have ever worked at in my tens years. I workd on the tele floor but I have friends in Icu had same experiences. Staff not friendly to travelers, management always looking for ways to hang you so they can cancel your contract and not pay your bonuses. I went with talemed, they lied to me about facility. They send nearly 80% of all the traveLers there. It was a county hospital, that changed its name. My company knew that and during the interview the director of the floor lied about everything.Told me it was a true tele floor 4:1 ratio. We had pts that have been on that floor for over 3yrs! trached, tube feeding,contact iso for 6 mths at a time. I did not see one true tele pt, but did see alcohol and drug pts in 4 pts. That tele floor was dump floor. You don't want to go there period!

Ginn, could you give me some details about your experience with Talemed? Thanks!

As a former "renown" employee, I can tell you terrible things about the place. Most RN's don't mind trav's, but the managers and supervisiors you will deal with hate everybody. They treat their own staff terrible, so management really hates you. I'm not saying this to be spiteful- I was once a trav. myself (i wish they had a site like this 20 years ago) I'm just being honest- you will be overworked and your boss will kick you in the teeth as a reward for all your hard work.

does anyone know if they are still cancelling contracts? and how the ER is? i've done 2 contracts there, when it was washoe, but it has been a few years since. i keep hearing about them cancelling contracts and don't want to get there and 2 wks later my contract get cancelled. any advice?

ginn1964 wrote:Just finished contract there, horrible place, laid off 85 travels out of the blue, staff trying to get union going, and they dislike travelers but travelers account for nearly half of the staff. My interview the manager lied about everything and my company was in leaague with the hospital. Worst contract in my 7 yrs doing this kind of work. All I am saying is avoid Renown healthcare system treat you like crap! Also dont use Talemed travel nurse company>

You are right about that hospital and it is even worse. Travelers are not the only ones treated poorly. All the nurses there are treated very bad. It is like a concentration camp at that place. I had to tell my significant other to not tell me about what goes on at that place because it gets me so worked up. We are actually almost ready to pick up and move out of state because of that place. There is realy no where else to go in the area thats any better. There are so many nicer cities with good hospitals to work at, I dont know why we even stay here. Any one else who is considering Renown DONT DO IT!!!! Get this, they just named nurse of the year to this lady named Elizabeth because she is the most cut throat back stabbing Bi*&h out of all administrators and no actual RN voted for her. It's because she is the mastermind behind all the firings to save money.

RichardD wrote:Does anyone know about standard of care at this hospital? My brother committed suicide in the ER 3 weeks ago....how could this happen???

So sorry about that. I remember when that happened. That hospital is ran so horrible. Honestly the RNs there are gaged and tied. They would be fired for anything. They have security there but they spend more time in there offices and trying to give tickets to employees parking in the garage than patrolling the most dangerous part of the hospital. (The ER and ER lobby) They actually have triage rooms that once were used but they are getting rid of nurses to save money they dont have the staff to do an actual triage. They could even get hit on HIPPA violations now. There is one triage nurse in the lobby triaging the whole room and there could be 15 to 30 people waiting. Look up an interview from news 4 with John Laxton and listen to this moron. He finaly quit anyways. Too much negative publisity. I am so sorry but dont please dont blame that nurse, she actually called for security but they come when they feel like it. They are not usually there. Also, the mandatory panic button had never worked just ask anyone there. Sue the crap out of that place and if you need dirt on them most nurses would be happy to give it up. No lie. It would probably all be the same stuff.

RATM wrote:As a former "renown" employee, I can tell you terrible things about the place. Most RN's don't mind trav's, but the managers and supervisiors you will deal with hate everybody. They treat their own staff terrible, so management really hates you. I'm not saying this to be spiteful- I was once a trav. myself (i wish they had a site like this 20 years ago) I'm just being honest- you will be overworked and your boss will kick you in the teeth as a reward for all your hard work.

Listen to this person. Everything you say is completely true. I just dont understand how they can get away with it. I have wrote the media and they still do nothing. The union is also a joke and must be in bed with them. Some of the union dues probably go to the hospital. Now the staff has to pay $30 a month to park.