Will a year of assisted living experience with hospice patients be enough experience for travel hospice positions?

[jdileo]

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!

 

[DeDe245]

Some are sticklers to the one year recent experience rule many aren't. Same with facilities. Although more than one year is ideal.

Consider the abundance of each specilaty as well with ER being more abundant.

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[DeDe245]

In search phrase need to put RN after specialty

[NurseBlaq]

Why is there a mass exodus in your agency? Is it personnel or burnout? I would suggest contacting a travel agency and get their opinion. Tell them your future plan and see what they have to say. That's what I would do because who knows what's the acceptable standards for hospice travel assignments better than the travel agencies.

[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).