Don't want to be a case manager

[Erin1984]

Hi everyone! I need advice! First a little background. I have been a nurse for a little over 3 years. I started my career in assisted living- loved it. Worked with great people and just really enjoyed my job. About a year ago, I moved out of state to where I'm from. I wanted to be closer to family. It was always my goal to get in to a hospital so I decided that the next logical step would be a SNF. S I worked at a snf for about 9 months. I didn't like it mainly due to bad management but I loved the patient care aspect of it. About 6 months in I began applying for acute care jobs. I live in a very competitive saturated city on California so I didn't get many call backs. Anyway, I finally got a call back from a major hospital system but for what seemed like a home health position. This job paid $14 more an hour than what I was getting paid and I thought why not? I'll be working for this bug hospital system and should be able to transfer to acute in 6 months to a year. So I go my first day and find out that they it's actually a case management position. I guess I didn't ask enough questions in the interview! I know I know. So I've been at this job now approximately 3 months. And I don't hate it but it's definitely not my passion. I want to get in to acute care but worry I will never get in if I stay at this job for any length of time. I don't want to go back to a snf because I make so much more money now. My family says stock it out for 6 months and then try to transfer within the system. They aren't nurses and don't understand most hiring managers in the hospital don't want to hire a case manager. Someone please give me some advice. :)