Rehabilitation Nursing

Rehabilitation Nursing | Brooks Rehabilitation

I chose to become a nurse at brooks rehab
because I love rehabilitation nursing, I had found at another facility that rehab
nursing was a really great niche for me, and I really loved it.
And so when I was moving to jackson
##ville and I found they had a whole hospital for rehab nursing or
for rehabilitation, that's where I knew I had to go.
And it's been a great place, because I've been here for 1618 years.
You get to see a lot of things that you don't see in other facilities.
You get to see your patients get better.
You get to see them turn a corner.

You get to be a big part of their recovery.
And I think that is a huge piece of what reward you for being a nurse.
Not just seeing them come in and go out, but actually seeing the things you're
doing makes a difference in someone's life.
It was very rewarding to see them go back to their normal life where they should be,
especially when they come back to us and visit us.

You can really tell.
You cannot recognize them from the bed where they was and then from them walking
out to you and thanking you from all the things that you have done to them.
One of my favorite memories working here as a nurse is when I had a patient.


He's young when he first got here, he can't even talk.
He hardly opened his eyes.

And through rehab, he'd been through different surgeries,
come back here, out again, back here, and then he recovered from all of that.
He went home walking and talking.
And that is really a miracle.
So rewarding.
As a nurse in rehabilitation, I like.

Seeing people from when they first come
in and being able to be part of their healing process and making a difference
in their life and setting a great impression that I remember.
That nurse Steve helped me out on this or that.
Nurse Steve helped me out with that and is
just rewarding for me because it makes me happy that I'm able to be a part of their
healing process and their path to recovery.
As a clinical manager in a management position,
I get to actually get the phone calls from the families and I get to hear

the stories of what the staff is doing in the home and the positive outcomes.
And the patients that actually request
to come back to Brooks request a specific clinician.
When they do come back and they ask for you, that just motivates you and shows
you just exactly what we're doing and how well we're doing it)

Someone else should be interested
in Brooks just because I feel like a lot of people don't know what we do and they
don't understand the long relationships you can develop with the patient.
So different from acute care.
You just kind of see them for a shift or two in acute care.
And here you actually get to interact
with them, watch them grow, and see their journey from being very,
very sick when they come in to being able to be independent when they leave here.