![]() ![]() Working with individuals who are adopted is especially close to Sally’s heart because she was adopted at age 5 from Seoul, Korea. She values discovering the “Why” and shifting the focus to the questions of “How”, “When”, and “What” to help people move toward what is important to them. She helps people with adjustment to changes in life, anxiety, depression, stress, perinatal mood and anxiety disorders, relinquishment and adoption issues, relationship difficulties, and grief. Clients say she is calming, honest, respectful, supportive, and encouraging. Once that trust is earned, she enjoys the privilege of joining you in exploring your values, identity, habits that work and ones that don’t, skills to manage stressful situations, and responses that help you live a more manageable and enjoyable life. She understands how challenging it can be to trust someone new, so she does her best to earn your trust by being honest, consistent, following through, and prioritizing what you want to get out of therapy. Not to mention, as a new grad RN, this I was the lowest wage offer I received.Sally is a licensed clinical social worker, who enjoys working with adults who need support during a variety of life stressors. ![]() I’m not willing to go into work with unsafe staffing ratios and management who couldn’t care less about it. There are inherently dangerous parts of psych nursing, I’m more than willing to do that. ![]() But when even some of the doctors were noticing that upper management pushed profit over people, I knew I had to leave. It pained me to leave, because I love psych nursing, my patients, and my coworkers. Upper management is incredibly out of touch and will “listen” to complaints and then nothing will come of it. The staff I worked with did genuinely care about the patients, however, when you’re working unsafe ratios on mandated shifts with intensely high acuity, you cannot function at your best as a professional. They would admit patients based on poor criteria only to “fill a bed.” There was terrible communication, it was difficult to move up on the “ladder” system (loyalty does not pay here), and constantly under staffed. My immediate CSM cared about patient and staff safety, but those above her constantly were putting staff AND patients in unsafe situations. Initially everything was great, but within the first year it became glaringly obvious that management was only about profit over people. I’m super passionate about psych nursing, so was excited to start my career at Pine Rest. They'll tell you to go to the company for therapy and still schedule for the time you're supposed to have therapy. If you express your grievances with management, they gaslight you and suggest that you may be the one with the issue. They've been told to fit their lead tasks into their floor tasks as well this is on top of having to do documentation that can easily take an hour just by itself. Leads are expected to come on days off or come in for several hours before their floor shifts to do their lead jobs even if they've already worked 40 hours of floor shifts that week. You will also be undertrained when you start even the leads aren't sufficiently trained in their jobs. ![]() Management and higher up are more concerned with filling beds than anything else. The last few months I was there they started taking in more people who were not appropriate for the program some required 1:1, higher levels of care, greater medical needs than what the program is equipped to deal with, etc. They don't seem to care that they are asking staff to do the job of four people while trying to care for people who may still be in crisis mode. They'll tell you they're too busy or that they're already on OT. This is especially the case with 2nd and 3rd shift. If you ask for help from anyone above the leads, you'll waste your breath. They call you and then at a team meeting will tell staff not to put in OT. Management changes hands a lot, and they don't respect the work/life balance and you putting in PTO. This job is super rough if you put in effort and act like you care about your job. ![]()
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