If you work for a hospice company in Michigan, what is your current mileage reimbursement? How often do you get a salary increase? I am reimbursed at .56/mile which has remained the same since I was hired in 2022. The company states this remains competitive.
I'm a CNA working for a hospice company right now that's for-profit. I've been here for 6 months and took the first hospice job I could find because it's been my dream to work in this field. Now that I've been here for 6 months, I'm finding that the reality of for-profit hospice care is not at all like I imagined. There's something sad about a company viewing their hospice patients as numbers and encouraging it's employee's to be more productive by offering a "productivity bonus". Before I started this work, I romanticized hospice care and assumed all death work was sacred work. There's a moral conflict in working for a company that wants to prioritize seeing as many patients as possible instead of providing intentional, quality care. Can anyone relate to this experience???? Is it better working for a non-profit hospice company? I love this work and my patients absolutely love working with me so I know I'm doing something right. I'm new to working in this field, so maybe there's a different direction I could go?
I’ve been working weekends on call from 5pm-8am for the last 4 months. Our census has steadily increased from 92 to now 134 over those months. During the day on the weekends we have a triage nurse, an admission nurse, and a runner for PRN and scheduled visits. Any visits that don’t get done get forwarded onto me, it’s not unusual for me to be notified of multiple pending visits before my shift starts.
I am going to 5-9 visits every shift, does that seem to be the norm? This position is “on call” but I am not able to sleep during my shifts because I’m busy the entire time and find myself at visits and charting well after 8 am. On a slow night I see maybe 3-4 patients, but lately, it’s been averaging about 7 a shift. Thoughts? Advice? Thank you!