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I am needing your opinion on which nursing job would you choose....if it were between working with an Adult Daycare :confused: or a Long-Term Care facility :confused:? Is there any difference? Is either one harder than the other? I appreciate your responses! :)

Thanks,

NurseLil-lea :D

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I am needing your opinion on which nursing job would you choose....if it were between working with an Adult Daycare :confused: or a Long-Term Care facility :confused:? Is there any difference? Is either one harder than the other? I appreciate your responses! :)

Thanks,

NurseLil-lea :D

Adult Day care pays less I think...You would not be as busy. LTC has more clinical skills involved. Pays more too.

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Specializes in Geriatrics.

I say take both. Do prn at the LTC and whatever they're offering at the adult day care. That way your skills won't go to wast and your not overstressed from the everyday life of LTC

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thank you mermaidunderwater and josinda421 for your responses. if the adult daycare is not very busy and most of the lpn skills are not being utilized, is this still considered lpn experience?

thanks,

nurselil-lea

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Specializes in LTC, AL, Corrections, Home health.

Yes, I mean it still goes on your resume. If one day a couple years down the road you want to try and get a job doing something requiring more clinical skills (hospital, long term care, rehab unit, etc), it's great that you have been working as an LPN, but they will recognize that the type of work does not require the highest level of skills; you haven't been putting in catheters or IVs, reporting lab values, doing a lot of dressing changes, and things of that nature working in an adult daycare. So I think doing something like LTC part time or PRN may be a good idea.

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so far I have work long term and urgent care and I would believe that LTC is harder but much more enjoyable, because of the one on one time with patients. in ugent care I see them for maybee an hou the gone for two to three month on evens yrs. thehuman connection is nice. to see your patient get better is nice.

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Specializes in LTC, AL, Corrections, Home health.

Oh, I love my ltc job too. I think these other guys have a point about it being too stressful for some, particularly if you work for a poor facility with a lot of staffing issues. I think the trick is finding a quality place that treats its employees well.

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Yes, I mean it still goes on your resume. If one day a couple years down the road you want to try and get a job doing something requiring more clinical skills (hospital, long term care, rehab unit, etc), it's great that you have been working as an LPN, but they will recognize that the type of work does not require the highest level of skills; you haven't been putting in catheters or IVs, reporting lab values, doing a lot of dressing changes, and things of that nature working in an adult daycare. So I think doing something like LTC part time or PRN may be a good idea.

Thank you heathert_kc for the info!!!

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so far I have work long term and urgent care and I would believe that LTC is harder but much more enjoyable, because of the one on one time with patients. in ugent care I see them for maybee an hou the gone for two to three month on evens yrs. thehuman connection is nice. to see your patient get better is nice.

I worked for a LTC as a CNA and I did not like it much. Only reasons I did not like it much is because I seen the the residents getting treated badly. I seen them just be set in a hallway for hours around the nursing station crying and moaning for help. I seen the other CNA's eating up the residents food and stealing stuff. I seen the residents being Man handled. Like you and heathert_kc state, that as long as you find a LTC that treat the employees and residents right, it will be a good place to work. I am looking into the LTC also.

Thanks Guys!!!

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Specializes in LTC, Memory loss, PDN.

Everything else being equal, Adult Daycare hands down. I worked for a facility which had AL, HCC, Memory unit and Adult Daycare and I got to work in all of them.

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Thank you systoly for the information!!:)

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Specializes in LTC, Memory loss, PDN.

You're welcome. I do presume that you'd be the only nurse on duty at Adult Daycare, because census there can fluctuate wildly.

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