mab19

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1. Virginia Hospice Nurse Salaries

   mab19 replied to mab19's topic in Virginia

   Thanks for your feedback. Could you tell me whether you're your home health agency is connected to a tertiary care system (a hospital system) or if it's an independent agency?

2. Virginia Hospice Nurse Salaries

   mab19 posted a topic in Virginia

   I've just relocated to VA from the West coast and am planning to continue hospice nursing here - probably in the Hampton Roads or Richmond areas. Can anyone give me feedback on what I can expect the hourly compensation range to be? I've been a nurse ...

3. frustrated and overwhelmed

   mab19 replied to kelluvanurse's topic in Hospice

   It's distressing to me to hear about nurses not billing for the time they actually work. Not only are we cheating ourselves as individuals when we do this, we're also short-changing the profession as a whole by allowing managers to impose unreasonabl...

4. Misys in hospice care

   mab19 posted a topic in Hospice

   I just took a case managment job with a start-up hospice and we're going to be using Misys for our clinical documentation and billing. After training on the software for a couple of weeks I'm beginning to have my doubts about how well I'm going to be...

5. Hospice and litigation question

   mab19 replied to jsteine1's topic in Hospice

   I'm a hospice RN and also have my JD. To bring successful litigation in this area you'd have to show deviation from the standard of care and resulting harm to the pt- something difficult to do in the area of pain management. Would be interested to kn...

6. Pay for Hospice Case Managers

   mab19 replied to ray2512's topic in Hospice

   I think this would depend primarily on your geographic area, your level of experience and your employer's status as union or non-union. I work for a for-profit in a major metro area in the Pacific NW (non-union)and our pay scale is approx 26-29/hr. ...