Nursing homes don’t pay the same as a hospital plus you are basically limited to geriatric care and not the specialties you might want to go into like ER, Med/surg, telemetry, pediatrics, maternity, cath lab, etc. You are basically supervising old people not necessarily very sick people, but immobile old people, or weak old people who cannot care for themselves at home.
You have more patients than in a hospital with more responsibility and less supervision. Not exactly an ideal situation for a new graduate. Also not an ideal situation for a patient!
AND Health, it does not help you with your application for a hospital because in order to get into an ER they want ER experience, in order to get into a good floor they want experience in that specialty and NO they don’t consider Nursing Home experience appropriate experience in these cases.