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5 Tips to Stop Feeling Incompetent for New Hospice Nurses

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If you’re a new hospice nurse, you might feel overwhelmed. You may also wonder if your prior nursing experience is enough. Before you settle into those feelings too much, you might want to explore these 5 tips to help you stop feeling incompetent as a new hospice nurse. Common Feelings of New Hospice Nurses.

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End-of-Life Care: Your Patient Has Died, Now What?

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As a nurse, when your patient dies, you might be thinking now what should I do? To begin, I didn’t even recognize the signs of transition to active death. I was busy doing other tasks like the new nurse I was.). My charge nurse was also amazing. Where Hospice Patients Die. My next statement was: “How do you know?”.