Rehabilitation Nurse – Career and Education Profile

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Rehabilitation nurses with with patients on a long-term care basis, helping to provide the best quality of life possible, even if they’ve been injured or suffer from a long-term disease.

Job Responsibilities

As a rehabilitation nurse, your responsibilities will depend on the patient you’re working with. Typically, rehabilitation nurses work with the same patients over a very long period of time. You’ll work with a doctor or team of doctors to develop a long-term plan of treatment for your patients, and could also face tasks such as educating the patient and his or her family about home care, helping patients with feed and hygiene, tracking progress, and helping a patient prepare for therapy. You could work at a hospital, nursing home, long-term care facility, private practice, or a number of other types of medical facilities. Many rehabilitation nurses also work on the road as home health care nurses, which allows patients to receive care without leaving the home.

Salary and Career Options

According to reports, rehabilitation nurses command a salary that hovers around $60,000 annually. Because this is a field so closely related to other types of nursing, you could become a rehabilitation nurse after gaining experience in a related area or you could take your experience as rehabilition nurse to another kind of medicine, such as pain management, geriatrics, or developmental disorders. If you get advanced training in this field, you could make $75,000 annually – or even more.

Educational Requirements

You can get started working as an LPN in rehabilitation nursing, but to make more money and open more career doors, you should also consider earning either an associate’s degree or bachelor’s degree in nursing to become an RN. Additionally, once you have at least two year of experience as a rehabilitation RN, you can take the Certified Rehabilitation Registered Nurse exam for certification in this field.

LPN to RN College Programs

While several schools have online nursing degrees available, few offer LPN to RN programs. What's the good news? We have listed some accredited schools below that do offer the program in addition to schools with other bridge programs available. Find out more information and contact each school by using any of the links below.

Indiana State University—Indiana State University offers a robust online program designed for LPNs wanting to become registered nurses and earn their BSN degree. Since ISU's credits transfer to over 80 campus majors, this is an ideal program for people wanting to open opportunities for their career down the road.

The College Network—The College Network is a partnership with several universities and organizations like the National League for Nursing that focuses on online education and programs, with several courses for nurses or those interested in a nursing career. Specifically, TCN helps students prepare for their PN and RN licensures and move on to earn graduate degrees.

Other Nursing Degrees

Walden University—Walden University is typically a graduate school with several masters and doctoral programs available, but they do have BSN and RN to MSN bridge programs available. Walden is based out of Minneapolis and offers several options in transferring your previously earned credits to and from (or even within) the school.

Kaplan University—Kaplan University is one of the nation's largest and leading online educators and offers several bridge programs for registered nurses to earn their BSN or MSN degree. If you have previously earned credits, Kaplan makes it easy for you to transfer to any one of their undergraduate or graduate programs.

Herzing University—While Herzing University does not offer an undergraduate nursing degree, it is a great choice for working nurses wanting to pursue leadership positions in Nurse Education or Management. With over 10 campuses and 45 online programs available, Herzing has a massive network that makes it easy to transfer to or from the school.

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