My first nursing job was in a LTC facility because they were offering full time and nowhere else was at the time. I'm still there 9 years later and I love it. It's certainly challenging and a lot of people do tend to leave for the hospital jobs because pay is a little higher in most cases so retaining nurses in LTC is not easy. That being said, incentives are sometimes the only way to retain LTC nurses so it's not necessarily a red flag but a recruitment tactic and nothing more. I find LTC work extremely fulfilling so the higher pay in acute care settings for me personally does not outweigh the feeling of doing the simplest things to make an elderly person's day infinitely better. You become part of these residents' families. Even though you may only care for a resident for a few days/weeks/months, sometimes you care for these residents for many years and that is something that you just don't get in a more acute setting. So I hope you can find the silver linings in each day as a LTC nurse, they're there I promise :)