HI! This is my first post so please bear with me if I mess it up!! I made the move to AL about 6 months ago and love it! I have been a nurse since 1979, with most of those years in LTC. Not near the stress in AL, but the pay isn't quite as much either. I still work a shift or two in the nursing home during the week and I can't believe how many people think that staff in the AL are just there because the work is easier. I wouldn't say it's easier, just very different from the traditional LTC setting.