goldberryRN

I've taken a sabbatical of sorts from hospice, but when I was working we had a CM or two who really knew how to " work it" and dawdle with certain tasks to get themselves up in hours. No one was allowed to go overtime so they would have to be given...

Our hospice would tell pt's/families that they could revoke in order to seek aggressive treatment for the hospice diagnosis, and as far as I know they always complied.

After 2.5 years in hospice, I'm out, at least for now. I love hospice work, the patients, the families. But the management was so bad I couldn't do it anymore. There was a mass exodus of the core of the team a while back, due to the new manag...

Recently left but it was: RN Missouri 20/hr 2.50/hr on call Regular pay if I had to go out Mileage at IRS rate

That's it right there in a nutshell. Nice and concise, I love this.

Where I work the pay is 2.50 per hour to be on call. Regular pay and mileage if you have to go out. Small rural-ish hospice, the CMs take turns taking call. No admissions nurse, no triage nurse, no back-up. It's not working particularly well. ...

HI! I am new to hospice, have almost five months under my belt (and love it) I've been an RN for 24 years, had worked mostly in acute care medicine before taking many years off raising children. I took a refresher before re-entering the workfor...

See, here's the thing, I thought they'd be nice because they (the administration) really wanted this to work.....we didn't have anyone doing "just call" before I tried this. All the CMs had to share it, and that was causing much overtime, so this...

Update: I plan on throwing in the towel on my life of being the weeknight on-call nurse. Started out doing five nights a week. Too much. Cut it to four. Still too much. 62 hours of call a week. Many times having an admission or a late routine...

Hi! I'm pretty new to hospice also. I've been doing weeknight call four nights a week for several weeks now. We have a voice mail system and all the CMs report off at the end of each day so I, or whoever is on call, has some idea of what 's goin...

We don't have a triage nurse, and I agree, so often families just want to hear some reassurance. The calls aren't that many, usually, what's making me tired is that I'm doing the late admissions too, which is ok, it's just been a busier-than-n...

They'll back me up, but there is no set plan that I know of. Halfway through the first week of it and it's been ok, but I'm tired. Thanks for your advice! :)

I don't mind color coding, it beats having to wear all white all the time like when I first got out of nursing school. When I did refresher course clinicals earlier this year, the floor I worked on had no uniform policy, it was a free for all and...

I took a 10 week refresher earlier this year. I'm in the Midwest and they are hard programs to find around here. I gather though, that the content and the structure vary widely from one program to the next. Ours was weighted heavier on clinical e...

I was a SAHM for 17 years, recently took a 10 week refresher and now work hospice. I'm at a point now where I don't know if it was the right thing to stay out so long. There are days I've (mentally) really kicked myself for not keeping a hand in ...

The talk among my co-workers lately has been that hospitals are hiring new grads in large numbers (at the low, new grad rate of pay) and finding ways to rid themselves of much more expensive veteran nurses. The veterans feel their job security is ...

I've unfortunately found "being nice" doesn't work very well. Sure, be respectful, polite, and considerate of all people, a good leader and co-worker. But don't bend over backwards thinking you can please the aides into working harder for you. ...

I've had five babies, appreciate what good l and d nurses do, but I have never had any desire whatsoever to work l and d. :) In fact I've had nightmares about being sent to l and d and having things go wrong and having absolutely no idea what to ...

I wore black slacks and nice black shoes, a streamlined white top and a floral print jacket to a job interview in the spring and I got the job. :)

I had a female preceptor for my refresher course, I gave her a gift bag that contained pumpkin chocolate chip cookies and a woodwick candle. Oh, and one of those silly "hoops and yoyo" cards that has audio to it when you open it up! :)

your ekits sound wonderful. wish we had something like that. i'll have to find out why we don't.

I don't know the answer yet but I'm new to hospice. I don't know if our hospice has never had them or it they had them and stopped. We're in a relatively poor, rural area with big meth problems, maybe that has something to do with it?

We don't have ekits at all, and getting medication after hours is becoming a big problem.

I've always had Littman's and they've served me well.

I've had that problem too. I even soaked them in a tub of dilute bleach to try and break the fibers and fade them just a little. It helped a tiny bit, but not enough.