lpn jobs, what does it mean to work in "rehab"

[northmississippi]

I was looking at thread on what fields have best pay, and it seems "rehab" had a higher salary than LTC... but isn't rehab the same as LTC/nursing home?

[JustBeachyNurse, LPN]

It depends if it is acute rehab, subacute rehab, psych rehab or drug/alcohol rehab.

Acute and subacute rehab are higher lev care than LTC more acute patients than chronic patients and thus often higher skill levels and thus higher reimbursement from insurance companies. Due to the more acute skills it often offers slightly higher pay rates.

[loriangel14, RN]

I work in rehab. I am in a hospital. Most of my rehab aptients have a goal of going home.They are not LTC patients.Many have had hip repairs or replacements, strokes, car accidents etc.

[calivianya, BSN, RN]

I used to work inpatient rehab, and my floor would only take patients that had a goal of being discharged to home after the stay was over. Some of them ended up going to LTC anyway because they didn't improve sufficiently and were too much work for their families to manage, but most went home. A lot of our patients were also younger - I don't know if it's true or not because I've never worked LTC, but I always picture LTC as being mostly older adults with dementia or something like that. The average rehab patient where I worked was a person with a bad stroke who could be older or younger, a person requiring spinal cord surgery, or a brain injury. About half of the 40-bed unit was under 30 years old at one point because we got a huge wave of car accident TBIs, a lot of them drug and alcohol related. I hope that helps!