GerryG

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1. IV therapy

   GerryG replied to jacjon's topic in Hospice

   I've been a hospice nurse for a long time and I've never started a PIV in all these years. We use either central lines or subcutaneous sites. We will not maintain a PIV in the home.

2. Checking Out Hospice Nursing

   GerryG replied to flowersRN's topic in Hospice

   I would think your experience in pain management would be very helpful. Many of us entered this field with very little experience. I recently hired a nurse who had not been in clinical work for 7 years and she is really working out well. I think it i...

3. Checking Out Hospice Nursing

   GerryG replied to flowersRN's topic in Hospice

   I would recommend applying for jobs and when you get an interview - if it is looking like a positive interview, then you should ask if you could go out with a nurse for a day. They may be thinking that they want to interview you before they allow you...

4. Is this practicing without a license??

   GerryG replied to rnkalee's topic in Hospice

   The nurse practice act applies to hospice just as well. Technically you do need an order. We have dressing application orders on our standing orders which covers us. In the past what I have done is to initiate the treatment and then write an order. T...

5. Pay for old timers

   GerryG replied to GerryG's topic in Hospice

   Wow if people are making that to start, what we are paying doesn't seem like so much.

6. Pay for old timers

   GerryG replied to GerryG's topic in Hospice

   I never said anything about the Cape.

7. Pay for old timers

   GerryG replied to GerryG's topic in Hospice

   I think that I would rather not say for confidentiality sake, but I am in a city of about 500,000 in the east. I am not near any major metropolitan areas.

8. Pay for old timers

   GerryG posted a topic in Hospice

   I'm new to this forum but not new to hospice. I've been doing this for about 12 years and am now in management. Can some of you that have been in this field for years share about how much $ you are making? We are starting people out at anywhere from ...