New Grad Nurse Vlog: A week as a hospice nurse
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- Опубликовано: 24 окт 2024
- Hey guys! This is my third week of orientation. So far, I've been precepting/shadowing case managers to get a good idea of what hospice nursing is all about. Hope you guys have been enjoying these videos!
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This is amazing! I just started working for a hospice company as an Intake Coordinator. So cool to see what a day for my nurses look like!
Omg yay! Congrats! I’ll be working with my hospice’s intake coordinator when I’m doing admissions. So exciting!
Thank you for making this video! I'm graduating next week w/ BSN and I want to do home health/hospice too.
Thank you for watching! It’s such a flexible job!
Hi thank you so much for this video. This is so inspiring. Do you have any advice for a new grad nurse looking to go directly into hospice/palliative care? I an aPCT and did an externship at a hospital this summer so my resume looks pretty good! I will be graduating with my associates in nursing. I would love some advice, how did you find your hospice job? Thanks so much
Hey! I just applied for jobs on indeed and read the requirements. As long as it doesn’t say 1 year required experience you are good. I’d also follow up with the company and let them know you’re interested.
Thank you for your videos! I’m at WCU and I’ve been going through your videos to get an insight about core and life after you graduate. I was wondering, you mentioned there’s a lot of flexibility with your hospice job, so how many days a week do you work?
I work 5 days a week with 8 hour shifts. Each day I have a set of patients I see. I spend about half my day seeing my patients then spend the rest at home charting. Some days I can start later or earlier depending on my schedule as long as I get whatever I need to get done, done. If things change during the week, I can rearrange my schedule and see my patients wherever I can fit them in my schedule. Some days I end late some days I end early but still get my hours. Hope this makes sense!
@@nurse_krizia Yes, totally makes sense. Thank you so much for your reply and videos. Much appreciated!
Hi on day were you finsih late do u get over time or it the same hours
Hi I am excited for you , and I’m excited to start as a student at WCU , I’m hoping. To start in January . I haven’t took the HESI yet .
Thank you! I’m so excited for you too! You got this!
I’m a hospice social worker and just want other folks in the comments to know working community hospice is not usually conducive to a good work life balance. It is incredibly rewarding but physically and mentally exhausting. It also can be very lonely. I want more RNs but I also want people to know a hospice RN caseload can easily climb to 25-30 patients who you are expected to see at least once a week, many twice for wound care, and you are driving to and from every single patient with minimum 20 min documentation if you work at lightening speed.
Thank you for your input! Asking the hospice company on the expected RN caseload during the interview is so important! Personally, I haven’t worked with a hospice company with more than 15-16 patients per RN case load. If they have more than that, they should have an LVN to assist with visits and PRN visits. 25-30 patients per RN is tough and I’d avoid that company at all costs.
It also depends on your service area! Sometimes I have 3-4 patients in 1 facility which cuts down drive time.
thank you . i have a few questions
how many regular visits per day
whats the required minimum time per regular visit
what is the average freq of sn visit per week per patient
if someone is actively dying do you guys have to stay the whole day or for extended period of time until the patient dies?
if you get a call at 2 am from the family saying that patients condition has drastically declined , do you go see the patient ASAP? ( what about safety concerns because of the time or weather, will that be considered ?
with regards to meds, if you get a verbal order for , a specific med( ex. morphine, ativan , haldol) will the family have to pick that medication up? or does the hospice company have a pharmacy that would deliver the med? and do you have to wait in the patients house until the med is delivered so you can provide teaching?
Is this your first nursing job after graduation? I’m scared I won’t be considered for hospice jobs right of my BSN but I really don’t want to do hospital bedside.
Yes it was my first nursing job
This is so cool
Thank you! 😁
Curious if you still work hospice and if you like it?
Wow...I'm an ICU nurse at the moment and have been seriously considering hospice nursing!! What company do you work with? What state do you live in? Also, the pay on average? I'm very interested...I need get my sanity back and I want to start a family and...ICU/hospital ain't it! Waaaay Too stressful.....
Hey! I live in California and found my job through indeed! I’d definitely start looking there. The pay on average in California is around $45. It’s a great job with a lot of flexibility!
Do guy work 8 hours a day and overtime as well
hospice is something i wanna do at the end of my career
There is no money in hospice.