I've taken a sabbatical of sorts from hospice, but when I was working we had a CM or two who really knew how to " work it" and dawdle with certain tasks to get themselves up in hours. No one was allowed to go overtime so they would have to be given...
Our hospice would tell pt's/families that they could revoke in order to seek aggressive treatment for the hospice diagnosis, and as far as I know they always complied.
After 2.5 years in hospice, I'm out, at least for now. I love hospice work, the patients, the families. But the management was so bad I couldn't do it anymore. There was a mass exodus of the core of the team a while back, due to the new manag...
goldberryRN replied to Soontobehope's topic in Hospice
Where I work the pay is 2.50 per hour to be on call. Regular pay and mileage if you have to go out. Small rural-ish hospice, the CMs take turns taking call. No admissions nurse, no triage nurse, no back-up. It's not working particularly well. ...
goldberryRN replied to goldberryRN's topic in Hospice
See, here's the thing, I thought they'd be nice because they (the administration) really wanted this to work.....we didn't have anyone doing "just call" before I tried this. All the CMs had to share it, and that was causing much overtime, so this...
goldberryRN replied to goldberryRN's topic in Hospice
Update: I plan on throwing in the towel on my life of being the weeknight on-call nurse. Started out doing five nights a week. Too much. Cut it to four. Still too much. 62 hours of call a week. Many times having an admission or a late routine...
goldberryRN replied to jlynn2303's topic in Hospice
Hi! I'm pretty new to hospice also. I've been doing weeknight call four nights a week for several weeks now. We have a voice mail system and all the CMs report off at the end of each day so I, or whoever is on call, has some idea of what 's goin...
goldberryRN replied to goldberryRN's topic in Hospice
We don't have a triage nurse, and I agree, so often families just want to hear some reassurance. The calls aren't that many, usually, what's making me tired is that I'm doing the late admissions too, which is ok, it's just been a busier-than-n...
goldberryRN replied to goldberryRN's topic in Hospice
They'll back me up, but there is no set plan that I know of. Halfway through the first week of it and it's been ok, but I'm tired. Thanks for your advice! :)
HI! I am new to hospice, have almost five months under my belt (and love it) I've been an RN for 24 years, had worked mostly in acute care medicine before taking many years off raising children. I took a refresher before re-entering the workfor...
I don't mind color coding, it beats having to wear all white all the time like when I first got out of nursing school. When I did refresher course clinicals earlier this year, the floor I worked on had no uniform policy, it was a free for all and...
goldberryRN replied to MightyMilly's topic in General Nursing
I took a 10 week refresher earlier this year. I'm in the Midwest and they are hard programs to find around here. I gather though, that the content and the structure vary widely from one program to the next. Ours was weighted heavier on clinical e...
I was a SAHM for 17 years, recently took a 10 week refresher and now work hospice. I'm at a point now where I don't know if it was the right thing to stay out so long. There are days I've (mentally) really kicked myself for not keeping a hand in ...