No12S ADN, BSN, RN

No12S has 27 years experience as a ADN, BSN, RN and specializes in Medical Surgical.

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   Case Load Home Care

   No12S replied to ocdstacy's topic in Hospice, Palliative

   I worked at a hospice in the Southeast and my caseload averaged 12-14 patients but there were times where you had a busy week with admissions and end up with 16 or 17 patients which is very difficult...
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   Amedisys company

   No12S replied to macrn26's topic in Hospice, Palliative

   Some of the situations described are unique to just
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   Leaving ICU to go to Hospice - Case management

   No12S replied to Linp's topic in Hospice, Palliative

   You will definitely not be stuck with backstabbing co workers all day, where I worked in hospice we came into the office once or twice a week for meetings or to turn in paperwork, usually maybe for...
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   Amedisys company

   No12S replied to macrn26's topic in Hospice, Palliative

   I worked hospice for 8 years and it's a thankless job. I worked for a large hospice in the southeast. No matter how much you do it is never enough, there is a lot of favoritism, blaming and gossip...
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   hours worked per week

   No12S replied to blexxer's topic in Hospice, Palliative

   I worked hospice for 8 years. Generally I worked about 40-45 hours a week but one of the worst things about hospice is oncall! They put you on a salary so they don't have to pay overtime. The on call...
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   Thinking of leaving hospice

   No12S replied to NurseStephy80's topic in Hospice, Palliative

   I left hospice after 8 years as a case manager. I was burned out also. I had a caseload of 12-15 patients, had to do about 3 days of on call per month, if the on call was on a wkend then it was 24hrs....
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   Anybody here??

   No12S replied to MA Nurse's topic in Telephone Triage

   I have only done telephone triage for about half a year and I really like it, my previous experience was ER, Med/Surg and Hospice. My worst day in telephone triage is better than my best day at the...
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   teletriage nursing

   No12S replied to ERRN88's topic in Telephone Triage

   I have done telephone triage for about 7 months and I really like it. It's the best nursing job I have ever had! I've been a nurse for 15yrs and have worked in the ER, Med/Surg and Hospice, honestly I...
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   Hospice Nursing as a New Nurse

   No12S replied to ahagen94's topic in Hospice, Palliative

   I agree it will be difficult if you have only done peds for 6 months. With hospice, you are basically on your own, having to make decisions by yourself, you can call or email a manager but a lot of...
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    FT on call positions 7on 7off

    No12S replied to sakasa's topic in Hospice, Palliative

    I just quit a full time hospice case manager job. I had done hospice for 8 years. Our on call did 7 on/7off from Friday 5pm- 8am thurs with 24hrs on the wkend. We had a census of 200! the CM were...
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    New to triage and feeling incompetent!

    No12S replied to RNhuron's topic in Telephone Triage

    I have done telephone triage in a call center for about 7 months. It's quite different from what you describe that you do. Me and 3 other nurses triage calls for about 10 doctors, I was given each...
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    More info about tele trisge nursing

    No12S replied to Babynurse1992's topic in Telephone Triage

    I do telephone triage for neurosurgey and work for a large teaching hospital. I work 8-5, m-f, always off on wkends and holidays. I work in an office with 3 other nurses. My typical day is returning...
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    Need advice Please- Call Center RN job?

    No12S replied to ORRN0808's topic in Telephone Triage

    I have worked in a neurosurgery call center for 7 months, before that I worked in ER, Hospice and Med Surg. Honestly I hated bedside nursing, and thought about quitting nursing after 15 years then I...
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    Specialty for introvert?

    No12S replied to avalanche678's topic in General Specialties

    I'm an introvert and have worked in the ER, Med Surg and hospice. I think hospice is the worst job for introverts, it's not that I don't care about people but it was just draining having to deal with...