RN Pay in LTC

[ajaxgirl]

I have received my lay off notice from a hospital, I am thinking of doing LTC but I guess I need to know what the pay is like. Can anyone give me some insight into this. Also if you work LTC how do you like it and what skills do you use?

[Fiona59]

I worked in LTC and from what the RN's said there was no real difference in pay. Just different bargaining units.

RN's at my facility were mainly administrative staff. Depending on which unit they worked they were there to do narcotics, manage any IVs (in sub-acute), do all injectable drugs, and initial wound assessment care plans. They did rounds with the doctors, dealt with pharmacy and med changes, lots of family contact.

We usually had 1 RN for every three LPN's. Usually around 60 patient census, either on one or two units.

The mind boggles, but who's laying off RN's?

[ajaxgirl]

I worked in LTC and from what the RN's said there was no real difference in pay. Just different bargaining units.

RN's at my facility were mainly administrative staff. Depending on which unit they worked they were there to do narcotics, manage any IVs (in sub-acute), do all injectable drugs, and initial wound assessment care plans. They did rounds with the doctors, dealt with pharmacy and med changes, lots of family contact.

We usually had 1 RN for every three LPN's. Usually around 60 patient census, either on one or two units.

The mind boggles, but who's laying off RN's?

Do you get paid a % in leiu of benefits if you are part time?