GerryG

GerryG

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  1. IV therapy

    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
  2. Checking Out Hospice Nursing

    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...
  3. Checking Out Hospice Nursing

    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...
  4. Is this practicing without a license??

    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...
  5. Pay for old timers

    Wow if people are making that to start, what we are paying doesn't seem like so
  6. Pay for old timers

    I never said anything about the
  7. Pay for old timers

    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
  8. Pay for old timers

    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...