For many healthcare workers, the hospice field is a new experience. If you've got questions about what working in hospice care is like, VITAS has answers. read more
For many healthcare workers, the hospice field is a new experience. They may, however, have heard many of the common myths about hospice care and working with the terminally ill—and that generates a host of interesting questions for prospective hospice workers. read more
Working in hospice -- whether at a hospice facility or with patients in their homes -- is profoundly rewarding, difficult, sacred, and not for everyone. Hospice facilities in the United States are the exception, rather than the rule in hospice care, most of which is delivered to patients in their place of residence (which sometimes in a nursing home, but more often a private home). read more
Working in hospice feels like it suits my soul, something at the very nature and essence of my being. People always ask me about what I do, and I grit my teeth before telling them, knowing that the reaction is a bit of morbid shock and awe, some fear, some respect hiding in the background. read more