jdileo

For anyone that finds this in the future, I ended up sticking it out with my home hospice company for a couple more months putting my experience at 6 months, at which point I was able to find a hospice travel contract (with CoreMedical). FWIW, to answer my original question, I don't know for sure, but the director at the senior living facility who was trying to hire me (a previous hospice nurse herself), said yes, that experience would count. One travel recruiter said it would not count, and another travel recruiter basically implied it would work if I called it "hospice" on my resume (LOL).

Hey y'all. I would like to do travel contracts for inpatient or field hospice positions. I was told by a recruiter that these positions generally look for a year of full time hospice experience, so I've been working full time in hospice since January, but I'm thinking of quitting. A number of nurses have all quit at once and I'm left picking up an unreasonable workload that I feel is unsustainable for me, but things just seem to be getting worse not better as more nurses quit than are hired. An assisted living facility where I see many of my patients at has offered me a job, assisting the director in managing care for the assisted living residents, some of whom are hospice patients, and overseeing the qmaps there. If I take that position and work there a year before moving on to travel hospice contracts, will travel agencies consider this experience adequate? I also have a year of ER under my belt. Thanks for any insights!

I failed my first HESI A2 practice exam (at http://www.hesiprep.com) and am freaking out a little as my test is the day after tomorrow. Part of the reason I'm stressing is because I'm still not sure what exactly is going to be on the test! I'm applying to a BSN program at LSU and their website doesn't specify which version of the test I will take. I've gathered that the test I will take is the HESI A2 V-1 with CT, since that's what pops up when I input their dept ID in the HESI registration. Does anyone know exactly which sections this version will cover? Or what the A2 and V-1 mean? I figure CT is critical thinking. Also, I'm concerned that the practice test I took had many questions which my Elsevier HESI study guide does not show how to solve. Like really heavy chemistry and certain math probability questions. Does anyone have any advice? Sorry for this rambling frantic post. Just kinda stressing. Thanks guys.