After 12 years working as a hospice nurse, Christie Rivelli reached her breaking point.
The pressure had built since the pandemic, when her workload went from 15 patients at a time to 28. She watched her coworkers quit the profession, and their positions were rarely replaced. Meanwhile, her colleagues in hospice social work were asked to serve up to 70 patients at once, she said.
Rivelli loves caring for people in the final months of their lives and supporting their families and caregivers. She was sick of seeing her meaningful work reduced to profit margins, and tired of seeing her colleagues spread thinner and thinner at the expense of quality patient care…