Clinical Diversity

[MJHUSKERS]

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Do you guys think an acute setting is diversified enough form a skilled nursing home/transitional care unit? I know it's not clear cut like acute vs. outpatient ortho, but they're still two distinctly different settings correct?

 

[MinnDasota]

Ya, they're different settings. Skilled nursing for the most part is considered sub-acute.

 

[MedStandard]

Acute care is vastly different from the TCU/skilled nursing setting. I have worked in all three of these settings, and I would definitely disagree that skilled nursing is considered TCU. Skilled nursing mainly is going to deal with the general decline in health, where the TCU is going to deal with a lot of ortho diagnoses, cardiac, infectious disease, etc. I guess the similarity lies in the age population, most of both require working in the geriatric population. I work in a TCU right now, and the diversity I see is good, not great by any means though.