What is pay diff between RN in hospital, nursing home, or doc office?

I am in the Dallas area. Thanks.

After doing clinicals in the nursing home, med-surg floor, Labor & delivery, OR, PACU, and Day surgery I am confused! Why is the pay rate higher at nursing homes than hospitals? Hospital seems so hectic and fast paced because most people there are acutely ill or injured. I understand that overall nursing home patients actually have MORE issues due to multiple medical problems related to age, etc. but it is different. Don't know exactly how to verbalize what I mean without making either setting seem less desirable than the other. We have students who can't wait for Emergency room because they like the faster pace and love acute trauma. Then there are students who just don't love the "action". Thank goodness for the differences because there are so many different needs for nurses in totally different situations. I think any nurse can find the right "fit". I dreaded my nursing home rotations until I did them. Then to my suprise, I liked it a lot. I liked the stability of having patients for a longer time period. I liked being able to get to have first hand knowledge of what was "normal" for each particular patient so it was so easy to spot a change. In the acute setting you don't have that prior knowledge. Sorry - rambling on and on!