Hospice Salary Requirement?

I recently took a position as an RN/ Patient Care Coordinator. I went into the job with 9 years previous hospice experience and my salary is 60K/year. Again this is a salary position and most weeks you work over 40 hours in very stressful situations. I am also anxious if this is comparable to other agencies. Good luck in your journey!

Depends on what state and metro area you work in. I, too am curious about how hospice nursing pays compared to hospital floor nursing.

My experience is that your rate of pay is dependent upon the state/region, years of experience as a nurse, years of hospice experience, and status of the employer; for-profit vs. not-for-profit.

66K in south atlanta. 13 yrs RN experience, 3 in hospice field. this is for weekend oncall position 5p on friday to 8a monday plus mileage.

I live in Southern Cal and I am an RN Case Manager earning approx 78K/ yr on 40 hour work week (8a-5p M-F), no on-call requirements and no weekends. In Cali I believe the average is 60-65K per year based on my research. We use on call RN's and LVNs on weekends and evenings. After regular hours we have a telephone nursing service to triage calls. There are opportunities for OT as well doing admissions on weekends. We are paid milage at the federal rate (more than enough $ for gas and some left over for saving...even with the gas prices in Cali) get an hour for lunch and if you volunteer to be on call for a holiday we get paid for the holiday, on-call hours plus paid for the calls you take. I was hired after 1 year acute care exp. and no hospice exp. It can get stressful at times but the work is very fulfilling and I enjoy it most of the time. I use to have to work an extra shift a week every week on a 12 hour shift on the Floor to make the same money, now I have autonomy, make my own schedule and don't have to be up @ dawn to get to work on time for shift change and deal with the politics on the floor.

just wondering PAS RN...do you work for a hospital based hospice? are your wages similar to hospital RNs?

No, we are not hospital based, I'm not sure what the hospital based hospices pay compared to the floor RN's. None of the hospitals in my area have hospice services.