Hospice Salary Requirement?

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Specializes in LTC, PCU, Med/Surg, Hospice, OBGYN.

Had an interview Friday and they asked me what my salary requirement was. I had no idea what Hospice nurses make. Is it salary, per hour, or per visit? I am a New Grad RN but I have worked as an LPN for various years in long-term care and with Hospice patients in that setting. They also requested a bilingual RN because they are losing clients to other Hospice agencies because they don't have one and I am one. So they expect me to go out and teach about their Hospice services to this community and even help translate their pamphlets.

So what should I have told her? How much did they start you at?

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Specializes in Pediatric, Med/Surg, Psych, Hospice.

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!

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Specializes in LTC, PCU, Med/Surg, Hospice, OBGYN.
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!

Well, I looked it up on-line and found out that in my area it pays about $58,000 - 59,000 a year which turns out to be about $30/hr if 40 hrs/wk. However, I have not been offered the job yet but I believe I will (knock on wood). I also only have long-term care experience so it probably won't be as much. I'm supposed to call her on Monday. Will see what happens. I will post then if and when I get an offer. Thanks for the info though!

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Specializes in Med Surg.

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

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Specializes in PICU, NICU, L&D, Public Health, Hospice.

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.

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Specializes in LTC, PCU, Med/Surg, Hospice, OBGYN.

I got the job offer. Not much per hour. Comes out to about $42,000 per year on just the regular per hour salary. However, they do pay reimbursement per mile, on-call daily pay, plus additional reimbursement per visit/admission/or death. Adding it all up, it will probably be closer to $50,000/year. Which may not seem much but the cost of living here is less.

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Specializes in Med Surg, Hospice, Home Health.

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.

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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. :yeah:

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Specializes in PICU, NICU, L&D, Public Health, Hospice.

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

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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.

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Specializes in geriatrics and Hospice.

Texas RN case manager making base pay 60k add mileage and oncall admits and deaths etc making about 80k go for the gold kid

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I got the job offer. Not much per hour. Comes out to about $42,000 per year on just the regular per hour salary. However, they do pay reimbursement per mile, on-call daily pay, plus additional reimbursement per visit/admission/or death. Adding it all up, it will probably be closer to $50,000/year. Which may not seem much but the cost of living here is less.

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Good luck to you!!!! Are you going to take the position... Sounded like you were!!!! Keep us posted. Take care..:yeah:

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