JennNJ83

What about an office position? If you do home hospice, good clinical judgement is important, because often times you are by yourself in the home. You'll drive yourself crazy second guessing all the little things that come up. If you're heart is in hospice then you should do it, but probably get some more experience before you do so that you could really enjoy it. How about something with a lower pt ratio like an ICU or stepdown, some do preceptorships where they train people with little to no experience

I feel like it's more, they don't want to continue to see their own doc, they just want us to treat all other conditions, usually because they aren't ambulatory. It's easy to keep within the mindset of " only treating and managing the hospice diagnosis" but it's hard when your out there a few times a week and it keeps being insisted on by the family. Just not what I thought I guess.

I'm a new hospice nurse, and I'm finding a lot more patients than what I had anticipated are wanting a lot of treatment for things unrelated to their hospice diagnosis. Or wanting ct scans, pet scans to r/o symptoms. A lot of people being discharged for 911ing to the hospital. I'm doing my best to educate families, is this the norm or am I just not good at this??

8 on days is a lot, but like others have said you will start to be faster and more efficient, hang in there you will get the hang of it, I felt the same way, got sick every day before work, but you will get through it!

Definitely focus on time management and organization, it's the biggest challenge for most new nurses

our protocol goes up to 3 mg IV or PO q2 hours, so over a 12 hour shift that's 18mg, don't worry you did fine!