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I was just hired as Rn case manager with a locally owned company. I'm so excited, I tried for 8 months to get it! I was an LPN for 8 years and now an RN for 1. I want to soak all the knowledge up I can and get up to par and productive as quickly as reasonably possible. My background is LTC and 3 years in home health. It's a great company, locally owned and very well respected! While I have read many recommended books listed here about nursing experiences, history and philosophy of hospice, etc. I am nervous about assessing for symptoms r/t specific terminal diseases. Not having hospital experience plays into that I'm sure. I wish I could find a book about nursing for end-stage disease processes with palliative care and assessment specifics. I know I will learn mostly from experience but am concerned for my first patients. I want to be able to anticipate complications for them. Any wisdom or advice would be greatly appreciated!

I am new to hospice as well and as a new ARNP will be taking call. Everyone recommended a resource :Symptom Management Algorithms: A Handbook for Palliative Care / Edition 3 but it is super expensive. Does anyone have a used one at a reasonable cost?

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As a new oncall ARNP, this resource was recommended _ Symptom Management Algorithms: A Handbook for Palliative Care / Edition 3. It is out of print and priced out of most new grad's reach. Does anyone have one that they could sell at a reasonable cost? What other resources would you recommend?? There are over 750 patients and although I will have MD backup it will be busy with night and weekend calls when the MD's are not in.

Any guidance would be greatly appreciated. What I have been exposed to so far has been a great group of people with a heart for their patients not see before in over 10 years of nursing.

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Specializes in CMSRN.

I wish I could find this book for $35 everywhere I have searched so far it is over $200

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Specializes in Hospice, Palliative Care.

You are not alone.

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Specializes in CMSRN.

I found it for Kindle on amazon $39.95

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Specializes in hospice.

Per diem is the ONLY way to work for hospice. You get paid for every hour that you work. They work staff nurses to death. It's the same everywhere. I work as a traveller, which is the only way I would take a case load. I get paid for every hour I work.

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