kjpatek

Thanks for your responses. Your thoughts are helping me with things I need to consider and questions to ask when I interview.

Hi. I am looking into a RN case management position with a hospice company. I have strengths in the areas of empathy and listening to people. I really value spending time with patients and their families. But I have weaknesses in the areas of multi-tasking and time management. I tend to have an independent nature and maybe I've tried to do things all on my own too much in the past. I have 7 years experience as an RN; my first 2 years in med-surg and my last 5 in an ICU where I had a lot of experience with patients at the end of life- and their families. I think I would like hospice case management but I really don't know what it's like. My idea of it is that it's meeting with clients and their families, figuring out what sort of equipment, care, and meds they need, arranging for it, and then following up on it, and then helping the family arrange funeral plans in the end. I don't feel like it would be so hard but this need to be organized thing that seems to go with it is making me uncertain. If I've been able to manage things as a med-surg and ICU nurse in spite of these struggles, it shouldn't be a big deal right? Can anyone give me input on what a typical day for a hospice RN case manager might be like? What causes this job to be stressful? Do you think my weaknesses in the areas of time management an multi-tasking might make it a bad fit? I'd appreciate input from anyone who has related experience.