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Excellent article!

Ohio will be compact come Jan 2023!

Yes! please move your career forward if that is what you want to do. Long-term care needs nurses, but they way we are treated there, especially RNs, is 100% not right. Please do yourself and your career a favor and move on.

Im so glad this question was asked. I was a floor nurse for years...then went to case managemrnt for 2.5 years. Then back to the hospital for a year. Some "life" situation happened with my son, which forced me to go back to case management, and here I am, in case management. I have been very anxious to go back to the bedside but I want to do travel. I no longer enjoy case management any longer. We are swamped down in paperwork and rhetorical work. It really has changed since I came back to case management over 1 year ago. I have been looking into going to travel nursing, most likely, in the Spring of next year. I just don't know which company to sign up with. I worked loval travel thru Prolink, but I would like to explore other agencies. Any ideas would be of great use. Thanks!

Hello! I attended the online RN-BSN program. Started April 2018, finished March 2019. I did like the online program. Sorry I cant speak for the actual brick&mortar school. But ALL of the instructors were great in the online program! I can honestly say I learned a ton of new information which helped me expound on my associates degree level of nursing knowledge. The online RN-BSN is accredited via CCNE. I live in Ohio, and my job, and another hospital job I had, recognizes my BSN degree. The online program was ALOT of work, but very doable. I also encouraged one of my coworkers to attend the online program, and she finished in 1 yr, december 2020. Hope this helps and good luck.

You are right. Nobody should HAVE TO look into what they don't want to do. But, I was making a suggestion, NOT informing him/her they HAVE TO look into case management. It was merely a bit of advice. Dude, you got to relax. Good day!

Look into case management.

I am returning back to case management. Left my last job last juloo y to ocme back to the floor because I thought I was missing something. Turns out...I am not missing anything! Going back to case management a d I havent been gone a year. I no longet want to do bedside nursing at this time in my career.

I have been saying LTC is like babysitting for along time now...... and people often get offended. I worked long term care for 8-9 years before acquiring my RN degree, and let me tell you, hospital is better. I'm not saying hospital work doesn't have its faults, but the skills you learn compared to LTC are so much more diverse. When I was a LPN, and other nurses used to ask me why didn't I just go back for my RN.....or why do I want to be "just" an LPN, seeing how my LPN skill set and critical thinking skills was above par, I used to get offended too. But now, as an RN, I 100% understand what they were saying to me. I cant knock anyone for doing LTC, although it seems like I actually am, I'm just giving my OPINION. LTC DOES IN FACT feel like babysitting after a while; IT ACTUALLY EMULATES TO MANY DEGREES!! Bathing, dressing, feeding, changing and medicating....wash,rinse and repeat. Baby sitting the elderly population. Nothing wrong with it but I just didn't want that for my career any longer. Would I go back? Yes, but only as a last resort. Only as a way to avoid homelessness AND starvation (not one each, but both together!). I am forever grateful to the Lord him self for allowing me the opportunity to work past LTC. I couldnt do it any longer.

Congrads!! Your almost done!

"When you take a leap of faith, you build your wings on the way down" (Unknown). I will and do encourage anyone to get out of LTC/SNF work ASAP! I worked in SNFs for 9 years while I had my LPN license. And at first...it was great! But soon the economy tanked and nurse to patient ratios were at an all time high, due to economic downturn and sevete cost cuts to medicaid. I have helped many of patients....taken care of the most sick and vulnerable patients. Patients whose acuity was so high they Belonged in a hospital, but there they were in a LTC/SNF. I leanred so much in the SNF world. But I just outgrew it and realized what LTC care really is when the curtain is pulled back. I amd greatful and Do appreciate my experience in LTC but I just cannot go back. I say GO GO GO to the hospital!! Go now!

^^THIS! Best response here!

I couldnt have said this fast enough!

WOW!! As much as I cant stand working in LTC or the LTC sector of healthcare...this was sad to read.

CONGRADS! I just recently started on a PCU this past march. And a previus posyer is correct...it just deoends on one PCU to the next. We do have vents on my unit I work on. We dont run too many pressors.....but I'm still pretty new here so I dont know exactly everything, as far as gtts go. Seems like I will learn alot. I'm not a new nurse....just new to PCU. Hope it all goes well!! Keep us posted!

I said what I said!

Time management and repitition will be your best friend. LTC can be very catty and nit-picky among staff and administration. You will learn alot seeing how this is your first nursing job. You dont need a fancy stethoscope, but you will need one. It's always good to take a note pad too. If you are an LPN, get you RN fast...then leave. If you are an RN, get your experience fast..... then leave. Keep in mind, when you pull the layers back when working as a nurse in LTC, you realize it aint nothing but a bunch of baby sitting. Good luck to you!

Yes. Obtain your RN is the first step.

Yes.....I spelled it all wrong. Thanks. Basically they dont give a greak about us and can toss us away at a moments notice.

My grandfather (a retired GM worker) told me and.my sisters a looooong time ago......he felt bad for us "young people" and thr way thing have changed inthe workforce for us...because these jobs dont give a damn about its workers anymore more, treating everone as if they are invaluable and indispensible.

100% All FACTS!

PREACH!

Awesome for you! Getting out of LTC and expanding your nursing to a hospital setting! I wish you nothing but luck! Make sure to review policy and procedure.

That link is what I had on my BKAT test for a PCU. And I just took mine March 9. Although all the questions in that quizlet link was on my test, there were about 12-15 on the BKAT test which were not part of that quizlet link. I got an 80% overall score.

I agree. Furthermore, what Idon't understand is why the LPN stayed......