Too Smart for Rehab Nursing

When you do your rotations in clinical to different specialities you will see why you need to branch out and do other types of nursing. Nurses go to rehab nursing at the end of their careers not the begining.

When you do your rotations in clinical to different specialities you will see why you need to branch out and do other types of nursing. Nurses go to rehab nursing at the end of their careers not the begining.

Like I said earlier in this thread, when people make a generalization like this it's naive and probably meant to be insulting. If certain nurses actually spent any significant time in rehab they would see that it encompasses many different disciplines instead of pigeon-holing a nurse into one certain specialty. To be an effective rehab nurse you have to rely on all your skills and you have to be able to do that without the resources many acute care hospitals have the luxury of falling back on.

ALL nursing specialties work hard and exceptional nurses are everywhere. Unfortunately, there are others who feel they make themselves appear better than others when they try to tear other specialties down.

Like I said earlier in this thread, when people make a generalization like this it's naive and probably meant to be insulting. If certain nurses actually spent any significant time in rehab they would see that it encompasses many different disciplines instead of pigeon-holing a nurse into one certain specialty. To be an effective rehab nurse you have to rely on all your skills and you have to be able to do that without the resources many acute care hospitals have the luxury of falling back on.

ALL nursing specialties work hard and exceptional nurses are everywhere. Unfortunately, there are others who feel they make themselves appear better than others when they try to tear other specialties down.

What kind of insight does a PCA background give you as a registered nurse anyway? I am very curious to know. Isn't that the same as a nursing assistant giving advice about being a registered nurse?

What kind of insight does a PCA background give you as a registered nurse anyway? I am very curious to know. Isn't that the same as a nursing assistant giving advice about being a registered nurse?

Actually, I AM a registered nurse and work in an acute rehab hospital and my comment was directed more at the tone of your previous comment. I was insulting toward fellow nurses who find fulfillment in rehabilitation nursing, subacute or otherwise. Don't we get enough misconceptions about our work from ill-informed patients and the medical community without tearing each other down? Because you didn't like working in rehab doesn't make it right for you to put down others who do. I didn't care much for oncology but the nurses there were amazing in their capacity for compassion.