happyRN29

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1. Which job is better?

   happyRN29 replied to moonunit1130's topic in Hospice, Palliative

   Take the caseload of 10 and less call. "On call" can cause major burnout in hospice. The less of it you have to do, the better. A caseload of 10 for a full time monday through friday nurse is very...

2. Interested in Hospice Nursing

   happyRN29 replied to Kelly311's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

   I love being a Hospice visiting nurse but as with any job there are certain difficulties to work around. I would change the atrocious amount of charting required, condense it, refine it, make it more...

3. Oh, My Aching Feet!  Nurses, Plantar Fasciitis and Finding Relief

   happyRN29 replied to J.Adderton's topic in General Nursing

   I have had the plantar fasciitis in my right heel on and off since I became a nurse in 2011. The last time I had it was in 2017, I was working medsurg day shift and had just had a baby. It started...

4. Quotas for visits, mandatory overtime?

   happyRN29 replied to Hospice RNCM's topic in Hospice, Palliative

   I've been a hospice RN case manager for little over 2 years. About a year and a half with my current agency. I love hospice so much and really feel like it's where I'm supposed to be. That being...

5. 5 things you wish you knew before starting a hospice career

   happyRN29 replied to SavvyRN2018's topic in Hospice, Palliative

   1. Expect most of your pts to have some degree of constipation, many to a severe degree. Be very knowledgeable on what medications to recommend to the doc. Expect to administer lots of enemas and...