From 1 posting and nurse reviews · Employer research Sep 27, 2026Sources
The short version
You would be working a 128-bed skilled nursing and rehab floor where wound care, IV therapy, and feeding tubes are part of a normal assignment, with awake nursing staff around the clock.
For experienced nursesSources
As of 2026-09-27Source: nursinghomes.comTwenty-four-hour awake nursing coverage means you would not be the only licensed person in the building on nights.
For new gradsSources
As of 2026-09-27Source: nursinghomes.com
Nursing here
Published pay and benefits
- Hourly pay
Activity Assistant base pay range
As of 2026-09-27
- Hourly pay
$15.75/hr
Activity Assistant maximum hourly pay
As of 2026-09-27
The units
Skilled Nursing / Rehabilitation
Waters Edge Health and Rehabilitation Center · Kenosha, WI
Total facility capacity is 128 beds offering high-acuity wound care, IV care, and feeding tubes, along with therapy and 24-hour awake nursing staff.
Sources
What nurses say
Themes from public reviews
Summaries of published reviews, with the original sources.
- Staffing and Basic Care Delays
- A family member reported lengthy check-in delays, ignored medications and wound dressings, slow call bell responses, and cramped conditions with shared bathrooms.
Sources
As of 2025-10-29Source: nursinghomes.com
The hard parts
State surveyors cited this building for Immediate Jeopardy and Actual Harm in September 2025, and CMS has designated it a Special Focus Facility — you would be walking into a survey-heavy correction period, not a settled one.
What to ask
- How is base pay set for the role, and which differentials apply?
- Which shifts are open, and what are the weekend, holiday and call rules?
- How long is orientation, and will I have one preceptor?
- What does a usual day’s workload look like?
Living in Kenosha, WI
Set along Lake Michigan between Chicago and Milwaukee, Kenosha pairs shoreline living with everyday affordability at just 1% above the national average. Off shift, ride vintage electric streetcars to the harbor, stroll Simmons Island Beach, and recharge by the water—giving nurses the restorative pace of a true Great Lakes port city.
Browse roles in Kenosha- Metro price level · Kenosha area
- 1% above the national average
- BEA index 101.1 (100 = national)
- Median gross rent
- $1,186/mo
- rent and tenant-paid utilities
- Median household income
- $71,239/yr
- all local households, not nurse pay
U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis · 2024 metro Regional Price Parities · Census ACS 2024
Current openings at Waters Edge Health and Rehabilitation Center
Infection Preventionist Wound Care Nurse
Kenosha, WI
- RN
Sources
- nursinghomes.com/wi/kenosha/waters-edge-health-and-rehabilitation-center
The short version, Nursing here, What nurses say · as of 2026-09-27
- nursinghomesabuseadvocate.com/nursing-homes/waters-edge-health-and-rehabilitation-center
The hard parts
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Get certified in whatever you keep gravitating toward. After my wound care certification it was like new glasses: I saw what I had not known to look for.
“Willingly, had they accepted me, I would have worked for the wounded, in return for bread and water.”