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Hello, I am a rehab nurse currently. Rehab nursing is a nice middle between the hectic regimen of a hospital and long term care. You get lots of good experience troubleshooting complications, dealing with physicians, supervising staff, documentation and more, lots more. You will find in everything you do you take something with you. I am currently considering a move because I desire more knowledge now I have been there a year and a half. People don't come and go as quickly in a rehab setting either unless complications develop, so you get to know them and their needs well. In small hospitals you tend to have the same persons coming in and out also so you do get to know certain people but, it is a lot more coming and going and you have to be super organized. As a new nurse you need to find a "teaching" facility. One that takes students because then they are used to training and questions etc. The facility I am at is not a teaching facility and I have had to learn most things on my own, the training was pathetic.

Hi there. I have been employed in a rehab/ltc settin for a year and a half and still consider myself a new nurse. I have been eaten alive as most of my peers have knowledge, longevity and are unit managers. There are only 2 Rns in the building that are not unit managers or adminstration. The other RN has been there going on five years, they have taught her everything. At this facility if you don't do it you don't need to know it so the unit manager and the other Rn do all the care plans, most of the admissions, discharges and MDS. I am wanting to learn these things and have asked repeatedly for someone to teach me and work on careplanning with me on the computer and they have not done it. I am to the point I am considering going elsewhere so that I can get experiene doing this as it is a major part of an RNs job. Do you think I am being impatient?