I work for what was formerly a large hospice (250-300 patients). Within the last 4-6 months, we have dropped over 100 of our patients due to a medicare probe...i.e. investigation of non-cancer...
I have to agree with the last post...as a night on-call nurse...please have the equipment available for the patient if there is even the possibility of a need for oxygen. In my opinion, there is a...
our probe is finally over. :w00t: thankfully, my job survived...so far. but, we have lost many nurses and many others are so unhappy. the office is a most unpleasant place to be. everyone's...
Thank you for all your useful information. I think part of the problem is that any nurse on staff does admissions, and we are not all well versed in Medicare rules and guidelines. I do around 2-3...
i thought dead bodies would be bad for me too. but i have now been working in hospice for two years, and really, they don't! at a death, i treat that patient (yes even gone still our patients) as i...
I am in a metro area, and there are many other hospices in my area. The census has been hovering around 150 for about a month or so. There have already been significant layoffs in nursing staff...
At my agency, we only use FTT for a patient who can be weighed currently and has documented weights for 6 & 12 months prior. Otherwise, we would use the DX of
My hospice does take on pediatric patients. And, by far, they are the hardest for me personally to cope with. I have never cried so much as when leaving the home of a dying child who was very close...
The hospice I work for has 4 night on call nurses. Two work each night and alternate making visits. We (I am one of the night on call nurses) are on call for 15.5 hours weekdays (4:30p-8:00a) or...