Hospice Doctors

[Juniper369]

At my hospice company our hospice doctor does not even live in state. We are expected to write our own orders and make our own plans for patients and not allowed to directly call our medical director. I was told the doctor will sign the orders and let me know if an order I write isn't appropriate, however I recently found out our doctor has so many patients their spouse who is not a medical professional just logs on and clicks yes to add the doctor signature onto every order we write. Is it like this at every hospice company? I understand that hospice is nurse driven but this feels like an entirely different level. 

[MalamimiLPN, LPN]

What would I do? I'd leave before I lost my license, that's what I'd do.  There are things wrong here on so many levels. 

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MalamimiLPN said:

What would I do? I'd leave before I lost my license, that's what I'd do.  There are things wrong here on so many levels. 

Absolutely

Keeping your license is worth way more than the courtesy of a 2 week notice. If I told a jury that I continued to provide unsafe care and obey directions that required violating scope of practice and acceptable safe standards just to finish out a 2 week notice, I would sincerely doubt the jury is gonna accept that defense as reasonable.