LTAC experience.....?

Specialties LTAC

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Hi there! I just graduated this past May and have not been too aggressive about applying (enjoying summer with my kiddos!) but have managed to get into a few hospitals to turn in resume/cover letter in addition to applying online for positions.

I am turning in a resume to a LTAC facility and am wondering how this will fare in 6 months to go into an acute care setting in a hospital?

The nurse pt ratio in the LTAC is the same as in the hospital - 5:1

The pt population is definately more complex than a regular LTC facility, so I am hoping that - should I be hired - it will still be credible experience for my goal of obtaining a position in a hospital.

Just wondering what any experienced nurses or nurse managers have to say about this.

Thank you in advance!

:) carn

LTC is usually considered a nursing home....LTAC is a long term acute care facility with VERY sick patients, not a nursing home at all.

Specializes in Med surg.

We'll just had my year evaluation and doing well in our LTAC. I have learned so much and am still learning every shift I work!

I've decided to go for my CCRN to Pursue a specialty. Great place to learn and grow.

I am kind of disappointed so far with my LTAC. I've been working for coming on 3 months next week and I had a very informal orientation with absolutely no guidelines for the orientation. It was basically up to the nurse (who was told when he/she arrived on shift) who was orienting me to decide what she/he would teach me. Only now that a nurse who I don't get along with complained about me not documenting a med order correctly (mind you she didn't bring the error to my attention or correct it herself) that I was given an orientation checklist (it took them four days to find this checklist). I went searching for protocols myself and came across a huge "nursing orientation" binder...I showed it to four nurses (two of them charge nurses) and all said they didn't know that binder existed. I've been very bitter lately. Since I started I noticed that most nurses I work with make mistakes on a daily bases and everyone takes shortcuts where they see fit. It bothered me that I was not oriented the way I thought was correct when I began, but I just thought - I will learn as I go, like everyone else has; but since I've been written up I am really angry. Even my writeup was BS...it was completely vague and when I asked for it to be specific as to my mistake, the CNO said that she had written it up in a hurry and that it was based on what I had said to her during our sit down...the sit down she called me in for to discuss my "mistake". I was a Staff Sergeant in the Army (as a Network Manager) and I am a good leader/supervisor so I know what they did with me is complete BS. Sorry, I don't want to scare new nurses but I do want to warn you that as a new nurse you have to be above reproach because you are vulnerable (you have no friends or seniority to protect you).

We'll just had my year evaluation and doing well in our LTAC. I have learned so much and am still learning every shift I work!

I've decided to go for my CCRN to Pursue a specialty. Great place to learn and grow.

Can you get your CCRN working at an LTACH? I'm very interested in this. Please let me know, thanks

Specializes in Critical Care, ED, Cath lab, CTPAC,Trauma.

yes

Initial CCRN Certification

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