MCBRIDE ORTHOPEDIC HOSPITAL

The place runs a modest daily census—around eleven patients—with occupancy near seventy percent and average stays close to two and a half days, so the pace is specialty-hospital, not mega-campus chaos. If you land in PACU, the same role can stretch across preoperative, holding, recovery, Phase II, and pain management, and you will see pediatric through geriatric ages. Med-surg and hospital-wide staffing has been reported near 2.82 RNs per bed. Assistant roles commonly post as twelve-hour day or night shifts; PACU skews days-eve; surgical services often run ten-hour days with early starts. Peers talk about flexible schedules and a friendly, team-oriented culture, and patient-facing scores land strong on nurse communication and quietness. Pay is not posted in clean dollar bands here—review aggregates put pay-and-benefits around 4.1 on Indeed, and at least one former surgical technologist called pay and benefits decent. The honest tradeoff sits in the OR and in growth: surgical staff have described short staffing, late-running cases, and missed breaks, and advancement exists without much recognition in some departments. Management reviews split between approachable and micromanaging. If focused orthopedic work in a smaller OKC setting fits how you want your shifts to feel, the door is the careers page at mcboh.com/careers.

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