Reply #5: Your hospice work blesses you [View All]

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I miss it. It provided some really life-transforming experiences. Hard to get pissed off at traffic when you've just spent an afternoon with someone who is coping with a brain tumor.

Unfortunately, it's tough to do with the amount of travel I do for work. And I hate to complain, but the requirments have become onerous. When I first started, I got a background check and hospice training, and then everything was fine. Then they added annual TB testing. Then each year, you had to bring in your driver's license, registration and insurance for them to photocopy for their files. Then they started requiring different educational stuff, all of which had to be done at the hospice office. Eventually, they started giving "job reviews". That did it. I am NOT sitting down and getting scolded once a year for not getting my paperwork in on time for a volunteer position.

It becomes almost impossible to fulfill all the annual requirements (many of which are state mandated, not arbitrarily put in place by the hospice org) when the hospice operates 9-5 and I work 9-5.