jharper

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1. Boundaries

   jharper posted a topic in Hospice

   My hospice has asked a group of us to put together a procedure/ set of rules on boundaries with patients. They want to establish a uniform way of allowing patient contact. In the room, the group is all over the board, some of us give out cell phone n...

2. Profit vs Not for Profit

   jharper replied to webblarsk's topic in Hospice

   Funny, got into a lively debate a week or so ago at a meeting and we agreed on only one thing: Stereotypes run rampant out there. For Profits are greedy and don't provide care. Non-Profits are sloppy because if they do poorly they have a fundraiser. ...

3. Weekend Work Shift

   jharper posted a topic in Hospice

   I have been offered an opportunity to take a weekend shift for the hospice I work for. The deal would be that I work from 4pm Friday till 8am monday morning. I get paid my 40 hours pay, mileage, etc. but no pager money or per visit money. I would do ...

4. What is the ideal caseload?

   jharper replied to Hospice4me's topic in Hospice

   No -- I have 8 right now (everyone has about 7-10) I think. If I work a weekend, I am covering another Case manager's patients if the call in. So, yeah, I could talk to a lot mote than just mine but I don't manage those cases.

5. What is the ideal caseload?

   jharper replied to Hospice4me's topic in Hospice

   I'm sorry I wasn't clear. If you have chosen not to participate in the weekend work for whatever reason, the on-call or PRN nurse takes the call. There are nightime nurses assigned, though sometimes, depending on the patient, I want to be called so I...

6. How long are your IDT mtgs? And content?

   jharper replied to Cing_angels's topic in Hospice

   We are doing about 20 patients an hour in the IDT. We recently started bringing in the volunteer coordinator too, incase the CM might want some services.

7. What is the ideal caseload?

   jharper replied to Hospice4me's topic in Hospice

   Our Hospice tries to target 9 patients per equivilant full time RN and does not use LPNs for continuity reasons. But the math is a bit different. Some RNs want to work a few hours extra on Weekends to make 20 hours pay a week extra for on call, thou...