Hello everyone, I will have a year experience in acute care in September which is the minimum requirement for 2 Hospice jobs I have recently applied for here in NC.
Does anyone know what the salary rate for a Hospice nurse is? Especially in NC? I've always wanted to be a Hospice nurse but no one would hire me in NC when I first moved here as a New Grad last year.
Second, those that do work as a Hospice nurse here, how do you like it?
My mother had a Hospice nurse when she passed away with cancer and that nurse is the reason why I went to nursing school in the first place. I always will remember her for her kindness and the care she gave to my mother. I want to be that Hospice nurse, it would be my dream job!
$28/hour x 40 hours salary for weekend on-call RN in the Chicago-Detroit cradle, logging an average of 35 hours/weekend including travel time, all hours of the day and night. There are times when I think "I can't believe I get paid to do this!" and other times I think, "I need a raise"
Specializes in Neonatal-Pedi, Hospice, Triage, Abstraction.
I live in Texas, worked for a big non profit hospice pay was low CM salary $60,000 /$26/hr but you had your weekends holidays free. & case load 15 pt's LOTS of mileage. On call paid more, $31/hr plus $2 diffs for wkend and after midnight. Just switched to smaller hospice paying $35/hr
NO necessarily and I have never heard much of anything positive about a hospital based hospice..
I work for a hospital based hospice. The pay scale is the same as what RNs who work in the hospital make. For me, it was a pay cut from a LTC manager position, but I love what I do now. The hospice I work for is great - we have a very good manager and a great team.
I have worked in hospice for 15 years. On a bad case, there is no amount of money that would be enough, on a good case I would do it for free....so far, the good out number the bad LOL
I live in southwest Florida and make about $45k salary plus mileage, benefits, bonuses etc. I am thinking about going to PRN with the same company and would make $30 per hour plus mileage but no benefits (64 hours per month minimum). Also, we are on the clock 8a-5p M-F, no weekends. Pay is not great, but I love the work and there are lots of opportunities for growth and movement around the company as hospice and palliative care services are growing.
OMG those are crazy numbers!?! Maybe it's because you are in NY. In Florida we make almost half as much but I suspect our cost of living is also about half as much.
Can you please provide some information about what the on-call per diem position entails? I am in GA and considering applying for this position and would really appreciate getting insight from someone who does this job.
Specializes in Hospice. Worked ER, Med-Surg, ICU & ALF-Dementia.
I would like to disagree very strongly with the one that said hospital based hospice has nothing positive. I worked for a FOR PROFIT hospice like vitas before and then moved on to a NON PROFIT hospital based hospice and I would say it was a great move. Dont get me wrong, I liked my time with Vitas, but I love my work at my current job. And turn over rate is low. I do not know how the hospital based hospice in your area works, but ours is great, thank you very much.
I have been in hospice for 3 years now. I work as an on call nurse. This position is salaried. The annual salary was very close to my Med/Surg pay. My company is non-profit. I am reimbursed for my cell phone, mileage ($6000 last year), and my company pays my benefits.
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$28/hour x 40 hours salary for weekend on-call RN in the Chicago-Detroit cradle, logging an average of 35 hours/weekend including travel time, all hours of the day and night. There are times when I think "I can't believe I get paid to do this!" and other times I think, "I need a raise"