How Hard Is It To Get In TO Hospice Nursing?

I do agree that it is the very rare person who can go directly into hospice nursing as a new grad. I do wish to humbly disagree that the prior experience has to be in acute care nursing. I think, depending on the setting that a lot of the skills you need for hospice can be gained working in LTC. You become used to working with families as well as patients, communication, assessment, coordinating others efforts, making do with what you have, working with a population that often has multiple issues (not just physical either).

I have never worked in the acute care setting. I did a final rotation in my accelerated bac program in ICU -- 360 hours in 10 weeks. I think that gave me a boost on some of the skills that are part of nursing, but it is my years in a VA long-term care that gott me comfortable in my "nursing skin."