Hospice Nurse Question:

☛ How do you handle stress?
☛ Why did you choose hospice?
☛ How would you handle a difficult family member?
☛ Are you willing to take call after hours?
☛ Hospice deals allot with death and dying. How will you handle this on a daily basis?
☛ What do you say to a patient when they ask you if they are dying?
☛ How do you organize your day?
☛ Describe a past issue you had with either patient or coworker and how did you work through that conflict?
☛ A family member confesses they were so stressed, they took one of your patients ativan to take the edge off. What do you do with that information?
☛ Hospice is one of the few team approaches in Medical care. How would you cope if the famiy or if a patient just didn't seem to get the whole philosophy of hospice.... and continuely asked about chemo, blood work, labs, xrays etc??
☛ What is your perception of hospice?
☛ You walk into a patients home, and they just passed away. A frantic family member is calling 911 and you know for sure the patient is a DNR what do you do?
☛ Describe something you have done to provide patients or family with stellar service? Out of the box sort of approach?
☛ A family member asks you for your phone # so they can call you directly during business hours. WHat do you say?
☛ Describe a good death...