hating rehab unit

Is there a reason they continue to schedule to a unit where they know you're not entirely happy---especially since there IS an area within the building where you thrive. My facility has a memory care/standard half of the building and a rehab side, most of us were hired to mostly stay to one area, but of course it does happen that most of us will fill in on "the other side" (save for two LPN's who do not stray from their hall or their shift. Ever.) It'd be interesting to know why they keep scheduling you to rehab, it can be hard to find a nurse who loves memory care, they should capitalize on that!

I guess it depends on your goals. If you'd eventually like to work in a hospital, I would recommend you work on the rehab unit because those skills are more transferable and sell better to hospital managers. However, if you like LTC and want to stay there (which is fine - you can make a lot of money climbing up the latter in LTC), then I see no reason to stay in rehab - which is pretty tortuous when it's a true rehab unit where all your patients are skilled/Medicare. If you feel you can easily get another job, just tell the DON you're not doing rehab anymore. The above poster is correct that a lot of nurses hate dementia units (I actually liked them), so it's not like you're asking for a purely cake LTC floor.

OP, I feel your pain. I am interested to see if your DON ends up granting your request. I am in a similar situation (except subacute is not my forte...have only worked there 2 times in the first 4 months...then twice in 3 days) and love the LTC side.

Most of my coworkers love having 8-15 patients in subacute, but I find LTC to be more fulfilling in many ways.

I hope they are able to work with you on this, especially since it is so hard to find nurses who want to work with this population.