school debate over nursing in LTC

[LrElizabeth7]

In my transition to professional nursing class, we are having a debate over advantages & disadvantages of working in long term care. Does anyone have any input on advantages or disadvantages of working in long term care?

Much appreciaited!

[SunnyAndrsn]

unsupportive management can happen in any nursing situation. i hope you can find a better work situation, with supportive management. mine has been very good, although a co-worker does not agree. however, today i took the chance to let management know about the fabulous way that co-worker has been handling a sticky situation with a resident. this resident is under the false impression that they have a relationship, and i witnessed her talking to him very appropriately, setting boundries for the relationship, etc. i made sure they knew what a great job she did.

i dont know if its just ltc but i work with doctors and other staffs with bad attitudes. many times they bad mouth each other or the residents and managers put up with this kind of behavior. my only experience in the hospital are when i did clinicals in nursing school and the staff and doctors seemed to be pretty nice. plus i have to put up with lot of biases from management, from don telling nurses that we have to call her before calling doctors when there is a change of condition, nurses are being blamed when patients falls when it is in fact a managers telling us we are suppose to be a restraint free facility.

right now i'm to the point of feeling like my job is not rewarding, its just a job to earn a check. i feel like i'm not learning anything because i'm doing the same kind of work everyday. many times i'm sitting down and wondering what i'm suppose to do?