Management in hospice palliative is clearly disorganized and managers are clueless as to how much work a field nurse actually does. Hours on end are spent by nurses who work for free downloading patients to an archaic slow computer system, 15 min here 10 min here spent downloading patients one by one. 3 hours goes by. Supplies ordered by nurses! Outrageous! DME ordered by nurses! Outrageous! Hire a min wage worker to complete that time consuming misery ...nurses need time to take care of patients. Managers push the hardworking nurses around like camels....loading them up with impossible demands. FREE LABOR, wear and tear on car, gas costs...the wage looks decent but in reality it amounts to about 8 bucks an hour when purchasing new cars every few years because of the constant driving and all the free afterhours paperwork. Definite rip off. Managers think field hospice palliative nurses are out having fun and shopping they are clueless to how things go down in a patients home. A patient may have a large bout of diarrhea flowing all over the floor just after you finished an excellent assessment, ordered meds, supplies, reviewed and instructed caregiver of patients care plan....what are you going to do walk out on the sick patient and tell his 89 year old feeble wife to clean him up. Your will be there another 45minutes just cleaning the patient up.
