Iluvhospice

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  1. Please Advise ASAP Confidential please

    Agree completely with tewdles... If they are not happy with the present hospice, there are generally several in any given area. The first step should be speaking to the present hospice about their perception regarding the hospice's stance on food/...
  2. I want to be a hospice nurse so bad!!!!

    You have what it takes to be a hospice nurse. After graduating from nursing school, I worked on an oncology floor for 10 months and then moved on to hospice. You may place foleys, access portacaths, drain PleurX drains - but rarely do IVs. Blood dr...
  3. Need some advice. I hate my job!

    Definitely get actively searching for a new job. I am in management and the only drawback I can see is that you will not have accrued paid time off for the maternity leave and will not have worked there long enough for FMLA to apply. But crying on ...
  4. DNR-Comfort measures

    Since I last posted in this thread, I have worked in hospice for more than 5 years. The increased tracheal secretions are simply the result of no longer being strong enough to swallow the saliva/secretions that you and I are swallowing all day long....
  5. Fair salary offer?

    $16/hr isn't even close to reasonable... you have every right to ask for more. Our LVN coordinators - no direct patient care - earn $21/hr.
  6. On call PICC nurse? Does such a thing exist?

    Our hospice uses a on-call PICC nurse, who places the most wonderful PICC lines I have ever used. Mobile x-ray comes to verify placement before use, just as in the hospital. I love our PICC nurse!
  7. How soon to specialize?

    I went in to nursing school with the plan to work for Hospice. I worked on an Oncology floor for 10months before switching to the premiere hospice in our area. I had wonderful orientation with hospice and it was a rapid learning curve, but I think ...
  8. would you choose a job based on salary or "the job"?

    Absolutely - go for the job you love. Nothing makes a day last longer than hating your job. Not even a bigger paycheck can fix that. Best of luck in your new position!
  9. Question about dyspnea

    Our hospice does palliative pleural taps also - generally patient revokes their Medicare Hospice Benefit during the hospitalization, and then we readmit them post-procedure. Morphine and Ativan are standard palliation drugs for dyspnea. Do you hav...
  10. home hospice interview

    How much training happens before you are sent out on your own... and once you're on your own - is there help READILY available by phone? Oncology to hospice isn't a big leap because you probably had comfort care patients on your floor at one time or...
  11. Is Hospice for me?

    Robin, My days are not what a "typical" hospice case manager would have because I see the general in-patients (pts who are hospitalized for something related to their hospice diagnosis), and when there aren't many of those - I do admissions. If I hav...
  12. Is Hospice for me?

    I would recommend that you start your career on an oncology floor. Surprisingly, it provides you with lots of varied opportunities for skills - but most importantly - at least for hospice work - you get to experience death and dying more frequently ...
  13. Most RN's first borns?

    Middle child - second girl - first born girl is a doctor, youngest brother is a chemist. Alcoholic father/mother
  14. Can you help me with some career advice?

    Being a care companion and being a hospice case manager/nurse are far different things. That's not to say that sometimes we don't have to help with personal care activities - but, by and large, that's not the main gist of the role. If your heart i...
  15. Salary for hospice nursing?

    $27/hr is the prn salary where I live. .44/mile is also roughly the reimbursement we receive. I just accepted a full-time admissions position with the hospice company I was working prn for - and I took a pay cut, not huge - but less than $27/hr. ...