happyRN29

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 reasonable and doable. The hospice I worked with ...

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 realistic and pertinent to the type of visit or t...

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 in the few months before I had my baby but became m...

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 said the current company I work for definitely take...

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 occasional digital stool removal assist (with Dr. o...