love rehab :)

I am getting my LPN right now, but have worked in a well known rehab facility for seven years as a rehab tech and love it so much. I may stay after I get my LPN, but after this last back surgery, I don't know if I can do it. See, nurses where I work either 1. Team Lead (some take a small patient assignment like my mom CRRN and others just focus on their nursing duties while helping the techs), 2. Pass medication 3. Tech on the floor doing total patient care.
we house very heavy patients-TBI, SCI, CVA, and general disability. My "specialty" as well as my mom's is TBI. LOVE IT. Anyway-I kind of wanted to know if the medicare and medicaid stuff was hurting any of your census numbers. We hold 60 beds and during the Holidays we dropped to 28. It isn't unusual to drop during that time, but this was bad. I am unit clerking right now bc of my lifting restriction-and instead of 10 hours a day for two days I worked a total of 8 hours the whole weekend.
I graduate in July.
It was really nice to see this forum bc so many nurses don't understand rehab or know what it is about. My particular facility is not a nursing home, it is a rehab center and there is one in atleast every state and major city-but I get suprised as to how little known it is. I almost wrote a book about four years ago from a tech point of view to the nursing student, kinda as a introduction to bring more into the profession. I got stuck though and couldn't do it. Anyway, I am blabbing. Glad to have found this one!