[meme39]

Hello everyone, I am new to this forum and justed wanted to say hello to everyone. I work in a rehabilition unit in a teaching hospital. I am a registered nurse and finished my degree about 3 years ago. My past experience has been medical/surgical nursing. I am really glad to have moved over to rehabilitation because it is so rewarding to see people improve and then move on with their lives. On our ward we also look after acute strokes and medical outlies. The only thing that upsets me is that some nurses from the other wards thinks that our ward is a dumping ground just for the elderly and that we are not really nursing in the way that they do. I just want to know if any of you out there have this experience or am I being over sensative? I would appreciate any imput

kind regards

enguin:

[mom and nurse]

Hi and welcome.

I work in an inpatient rehab. When I graduated from nursing school yes I did get a couple of people saying things like rehab was not real nursing. I chose to ignore them. It may not be for everyone but neither is med/surg, psych, ob, etc. Everyone finds their own particular form of nursing where they feel most comfortable.

I for one enjoy the teaching aspect of rehab nursing and watching my patients improve. I enjoy preparing them to re-enter life again and encouraging them that life will go on, despite the stroke, the amputation, the spinal cord injury, etc.

I saw this thread on allnurses that talked about the various kinds of nurses and how we should appreciate our different specialities.

Here's a link to an old post by someone named "Orrnlori" which speaks how different specialities of nursing have touched her life (including rehab nurses). It's one of my favorite posts.

http://allnurses.com/forums/f8/god-b...ighlight=bless

[oncrn17]

I am a RN who spent 23 years in M-S and moved to SCI rehab 2 years ago and love it. I enjoy spending time with the patients and their families and doing teaching before discharge. Most of the patients spend 3-8 weeks here recuperating. In the acute setting, the patients were in and out in a few days with a minimal amt of teaching.