Wedgewood Healthcare and Rehabilitation
Nursing Home · Lakeland, FL
On the floor
What the day-to-day looks like
- Setting
- Nursing Home
- Shifts hiring now
- Rotating 1
What stands out
Experienced nurses
RN pay is posted up to $40 an hour depending on experience, with full-time openings across all shifts.
Experienced nurses
If you want the 3–11 lead, the Evening Supervisor role posts at $77,500–$87,500 a year and puts you in charge of the nursing team that shift.
Experienced nurses
You need at least two years of long-term care or related experience; the work is care plans, staff oversight, and state regs in a skilled nursing setting.
More about working here
Experienced nurses
The RN role includes guiding, mentoring, and ongoing education for nursing staff, not only your own assignment load.
Moving here
You are in Lakeland (Polk County), where cost of living sits about 3% below the national level and Florida has no state income tax.
Experienced nurses
Posted benefits include medical, dental, PTO, retirement on the supervisor side, plus a personal floating holiday and company recognition perks on the RN posting.
Moving here
Quality Measures and Long-Stay Quality Measures are both rated 5.0 on the CMS profile, with Health Inspection and Staffing at 3.0.
As of 2026Source: allnurses.com
Starting out and growing here
- Preceptors and orientation
RN role includes guidance, mentorship, and ongoing education to nursing staff
Pay and benefits
- Hourly pay
RN up to $40/hour depending on experience; Full-Time All Shifts
- Annual pay
$77,500–$87,500/year
Evening Supervisor (RN/LPN) Full-Time 3:00 PM–11:00 PM
As of 2026Source: ziprecruiter.com- Annual pay
Evening Supervisor (RN/LPN) Full-Time 3:00 PM–11:00 PM upper end of posted range
As of 2026Source: ziprecruiter.com
Working conditions
- Scheduling
RN Full-Time all shifts; Evening Supervisor Full-Time 3:00 PM–11:00 PM
- Charge opportunities
Evening Supervisor (RN/LPN) leads nursing team on 3–11; RN posts oversee staff, delegate assignments, mentor
The city
Living in Lakeland, FL
Lakeland threads between Tampa and Orlando along a chain of lakes, downtown anchored by Lake Mirror's brick promenade and the historic Polk Theatre. Florida Southern holds Frank Lloyd Wright's largest campus. At a cost of living about 3% below the national average, your RN paycheck stretches further here than in either metro next door.
Browse roles in Lakeland
- Metro price level · Lakeland area
- 3% below the national average
- BEA index 97.1 (100 = national)
- Median gross rent
- $1,395/mo
- rent and tenant-paid utilities
- Median household income
- $64,185/yr
- all local households, not nurse pay
U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis · 2024 metro Regional Price Parities · Census ACS 2024
Who they are
You would be walking into a skilled nursing and rehab center at 1010 Carpenters Way in Lakeland, not a big hospital tower. The RN work here is long-term care: care plans, staff oversight, delegation, and keeping the floor inside state rules.
- Nursing Home · Lakeland
- Hiring rotating
More about Wedgewood Healthcare and Rehabilitation
Postings ask for a Florida RN license, CPR, and at least two years of LTC or related experience, so this is built for someone who already knows this pace. Pay on the RN side is listed up to $40 an hour depending on experience, full-time across all shifts. If you want the lead on evenings, the Evening Supervisor (RN/LPN) role is posted full-time 3:00 PM–11:00 PM in the $77,500–$87,500 range and has you running the nursing team that shift. Benefits called out on the postings include medical, dental, PTO, retirement on the supervisor side, plus a personal floating holiday and recognition perks on the RN side. CMS quality measures land at 5.0 (including long-stay), while health inspection and staffing sit at 3.0. Staff turnover is 40% and RN turnover 25%, with weekend RN hours per resident day lower than the weekday picture. You get a clear sense of the floor before you apply.
Working here
Culture and working life
What to consider
The good
- RN pay posted up to $40/hour depending on experience
- Evening Supervisor range $77,500–$87,500 with 3–11 lead responsibility
- Medical, dental, PTO, retirement, and a personal floating holiday listed on postings
- RN role includes mentorship and ongoing education for nursing staff
- CMS Quality Measures and Long-Stay QM rated 5.0
- No state income tax and Lakeland COL about 3% below national
The hard parts
- Staff turnover 40% and RN turnover 25%
- Staffing and health inspection CMS ratings at 3.0 with 6 health deficiencies
- Weekend RN HPRD drops to 0.37
- Minimum two years LTC or related experience required—not a new-grad on-ramp
What to weigh
Facility staff turnover sits at 40% (RN turnover 25%), and weekend RN hours per resident day fall to 0.37 against a total nurse HPRD of 3.50.
The reality check
Before you decide
Quick facts
- Relationship
- Direct employer
- Roles last seen active
- Aug 30, 2026
- Website
- wedgewoodhealthcare.com ↗
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Open counts come from the live roles below. Source links show where unit details were reported.
- RehabRotating 12 open
- Long-term care1 open
Long-term care / skilled nursing
RN oversees nursing staff, care plans, and state regs in long-term care; min 2 years LTC experience required.
Facility-wide nursing (CMS staffing)
Total nurse HPRD 3.50; RN HPRD 0.47; CNA HPRD 2.12; weekend RN HPRD 0.37.
Source location unconfirmedSource: allnurses.com
Open roles
Current openings at Wedgewood Healthcare and Rehabilitation
Refreshed throughout the day.
License Practical Nurse (LPN)
Up to $33/hr
Wedgewood Healthcare and RehabilitationLakeland, FL · Posted 2 weeks ago
- LPN
- Rotating shift
- Floating required
- CNA
- Floating required
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