Jail or Hospice job for new RN?

Kaisu · Sep 13, 2018

I am very curious as to what part of the country can a new grad get a hospice offer. Here, and as far as I was aware, in most parts of the country, hospice jobs go to nurses with experience.

As far as which offer to accept, what is your interest? Both are specialty fields with emotional/psychological implications that will fit some personalities and be absolute nightmares for others. Check out the specialty areas on this site in both Hospice and Corrections to see the kind of issues these nurses deal with and try and figure out which one is something you want to do.

I don't envy your choice. With no experience in either it seems very difficult to chose well.

Good luck

broughden · Sep 13, 2018

Hi. I am a new nurse. I have no experience. I have two job offers: jail & hospice. Both jobs pay good, and they have great benefits. I would get about 6 months of training in hospice. 3 weeks of training in jail. I don't know what to do. What would you do?

Id wait for a better job offer.