Will Hospice experience help?

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I am an LVN and a current student in an RN. I'm currently working in hospice. I want to get into oncology after I graduate. Will hospice experience and perhaps being hospice certified as an LVN help me?

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I worked as an oncology RN for 3+ years and hospice experience would definitely help you as would a certification. Most hospitals want RNs to get certified in something and hospice/palliative care does pertain to the oncology nursing job. We had a lot of comfort care patients who should have been on hospice but were in denial, etc until it was too late so we provided end of life care and the hospice knowledge and mission would help in providing holistic care to the pt and their families. Good luck!

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Ok I was hoping that would be the case. I trained for 3 months on an oncology unit in LVN school and loved it. Unfortunately that hospital had already phased out LVN's at the time as have most oncology unit's in LA and I don't have the acute hospital experience to get into any of the ones that do right now.

I would be getting the CPHLN certification which is the LVN version of the RN one but I assume it would help even a little.

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