Hospice RN - PRN - Southshore

New Orleans, Louisiana

PRN Hospice RN - Foundations Hospice Winner of SHP's 2025 Best Hospice Caregiver Experience award. Pick up hospice visits on your schedule with a family-owned, CHAP-accredited team that treats PRN nurses like part of the family.

Posted Sep 29

Shift and hours: Nights Expected hours: 10.0 - 15.0 per week10.0 - 15.0 per week
Unit and setting: Hospice
License: RN license Active Louisiana RN license, [1+ year] clinical experience (hospice or home health preferred), reliable transportation, valid driver's license and auto insurance.Active Louisiana RN license
Term: Per Diem Hospice RN - PRN - SouthshorePRN

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License: Active Louisiana RN license Active Louisiana RN license, [1+ year] clinical experience (hospice or home health preferred), reliable transportation, valid driver's license and auto insurance. Check your license
Experience: 1+ year clinical experience
Also asks: Reliable transportation
Also asks: Auto insurance

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Experience: Hospice or home health experience

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What it pays

Call differential: On-call: $5/hr On-call: $5/hr
Call differential: You will work one weekend on call at $750.00, 4 nights per month primary on call and one major holiday and one minor holiday. You will work one weekend on call at $750.00, 4 nights per month primary on call and one major holiday and one minor holiday.
Extra pay: $50 per routine visit Routine visit: $50
Extra pay: $125 per admission Admission: $125
Extra pay: $100 per death visit Death visit: $100
Extra pay: $5/hr on-call
Extra pay: $75 per change in status Change in status: $75
Extra pay: $75 per evaluation Evaluation: $75
Extra pay: Mileage reimbursed at 62.5 cents/mile Mileage reimbursed at 62.5 cents/mile
Extra pay: $750.00 for one weekend on call
Extra pay: $35/hour for occasional in-services Must attend occasional in services at $35/hour.attending occasional in-services

Benefits

BenefitsCompany device for point-of-care chartingCompany device for point-of-care charting
BenefitsOne set of scrubs and name tag providedOne set of scrubs and name tag provided
BenefitsFirst consideration for full-time openingsFirst consideration for full-time openings

The role and schedule

Day to day: Pick up hospice visits Pick up hospice visits on your schedule with a family-owned, CHAP-accredited team that treats PRN nurses like part of the family.
Day to day: Attend occasional in-services
Weekends: One weekend on call
On call: Some on call required Some on call required.
Scheduling: Self-scheduling offered
On call: 4 nights per month primary on call
Holidays: One major holiday and one minor holiday
Travel: On the road Work Location: On the road

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PRN Hospice RN – Foundations Hospice

Winner of SHP's 2025 Best Hospice Caregiver Experience award. Pick up hospice visits on your schedule with a family-owned, CHAP-accredited team that treats PRN nurses like part of the family. New Orleans/Southshore area. Some on call required.

Pay

Routine visit: $50

Admission: $125

Death visit: $100

On-call: $5/hr

Change in status: $75

Evaluation: $75

Mileage reimbursed at 62.5 cents/mile

Why nurses like working with us

Company device for point-of-care charting

Support from a clinical manager who answers the phone

One set of scrubs and name tag provided

First consideration for full-time openings

Great working environment with open communication

Requirements

Active Louisiana RN license, [1+ year] clinical experience (hospice or home health preferred), reliable transportation, valid driver's license and auto insurance.

You will work one weekend on call at $750.00, 4 nights per month primary on call and one major holiday and one minor holiday.

Must attend occasional in services at $35/hour.

Pay: $40.00 - $50.00 per hour
Expected hours: 10.0 – 15.0 per week
Work Location: On the road

What's around it?

In New Orleans, LA

New Orleans, LAFrom Census ACS 2024.

Living costs about 7% below the US average

Median rent: $1,251/mo
Household income: $56,631/yr, all local households, not nurse pay

Life in New Orleans, LA

NeighborhoodsYoung professionals and medical trainees (apartment guides explicitly mention PGYs) cluster in the walkable Central Business District—bordered by the French Quarter and the Mississippi—and Uptown near Audubon Park, the Garden District, and Magazine Street for historic streets with less Quarter chaos. Reddit locals with flexible budgets also recommend Fairgrounds/Bayou St. John. Safer residential in-city options are Lakeview and West End (safer than 93% and 94% of neighborhoods) plus budget-minded Gentilly Terrace and Old Aurora. Facebook and Niche add Jefferson and Northshore suburbs: Metairie, Harahan (2026 #1 metro suburb, population 8,904), Mandeville, Covington, and Hammond.

Young professionals and medical trainees (apartment guides explicitly mention PGYs) cluster in the walkable Central Business District—bordered by the French Quarter and the Mississippi—and Uptown near Audubon Park, the Garden District, and Magazine Street for historic streets with less Quarter chaos. Reddit locals with flexible budgets also recommend Fairgrounds/Bayou St. John.

Safer residential in-city options are Lakeview and West End (safer than 93% and 94% of neighborhoods) plus budget-minded Gentilly Terrace and Old Aurora. Facebook and Niche add Jefferson and Northshore suburbs: Metairie, Harahan (2026 #1 metro suburb, population 8,904), Mandeville, Covington, and Hammond.

Sources

As of Sep 11, 2026Source 1: facebook.com Source 2: extraspace.com Source 3: reddit.com Source 4: bgpmnola.com Source 5: niche.com

Getting aroundCitywide average commute is about 24 minutes. The CBD is repeatedly described as walkable and job-rich, with Rampart-St. Claude and Riverfront streetcar lines and easy walking toward the French Quarter; a travel guide recommends the CBD over the Quarter as a calmer base for getting around the city. Metairie sits in the middle of the metro, but residents say transit is tricky without a car if you live far from a bus stop. Sources do not name hospital campuses, shift-parking rules, or specific medical-center drives, so nurses still need to map their facility against car vs. streetcar.

Citywide average commute is about 24 minutes. The CBD is repeatedly described as walkable and job-rich, with Rampart-St. Claude and Riverfront streetcar lines and easy walking toward the French Quarter; a travel guide recommends the CBD over the Quarter as a calmer base for getting around the city.

Metairie sits in the middle of the metro, but residents say transit is tricky without a car if you live far from a bus stop. Sources do not name hospital campuses, shift-parking rules, or specific medical-center drives, so nurses still need to map their facility against car vs. streetcar.

Sources

As of Sep 11, 2026Source 1: extraspace.com Source 2: extraspace.com Source 3: bgpmnola.com Source 4: niche.com Source 5: youtube.com

OutdoorsCity Park is the everyday backyard: centuries-old live oaks, sculpture and botanical gardens, Storyland, Carousel Gardens, Big Lake rentals (bike, kayak, gondola, pedal-boat), City Putt, disc golf, tennis, trails, and beignets. Uptown, Audubon Park has shaded jogging and biking loops under moss-draped oaks; Audubon Zoo adds Cool Zoo in summer. Bayou Sauvage National Wildlife Refuge and the Madere Marsh Boardwalk sit minutes from downtown, and Jean Lafitte airboat swamp tours put wildlife on the weekend map. Harahan's levee is a walking spot; Lafreniere Park is Metairie's go-to.

City Park is the everyday backyard: centuries-old live oaks, sculpture and botanical gardens, Storyland, Carousel Gardens, Big Lake rentals (bike, kayak, gondola, pedal-boat), City Putt, disc golf, tennis, trails, and beignets. Uptown, Audubon Park has shaded jogging and biking loops under moss-draped oaks; Audubon Zoo adds Cool Zoo in summer.

Bayou Sauvage National Wildlife Refuge and the Madere Marsh Boardwalk sit minutes from downtown, and Jean Lafitte airboat swamp tours put wildlife on the weekend map. Harahan's levee is a walking spot; Lafreniere Park is Metairie's go-to.

Sources

As of Sep 11, 2026Source 1: neworleans.com Source 2: youtube.com Source 3: niche.com Source 4: thehonestlocal.com Source 5: facebook.com

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Living in New Orleans

New Orleans is a low-rise, porch-hello city whose identity is food, brass-band jazz, and festivals—not skyline or ease. Average commute is about 24 minutes, but Metairie is hard without a car and safety is block-by-block. The draw is City Park oaks, Frenchmen Street and the Spotted Cat, Commander's Palace, legal go-cups, and Mardi Gras as civic religion. The tradeoffs are August humidity, hurricanes and flooding, pests, tourist noise, weak city schools, and insurance that is not vacation-cheap. Locals who stay are obsessed; do not come if you only know Bourbon Street in February.

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Sources

As of 2026Source 1: extraspace.com Source 2: bgpmnola.com Source 3: niche.com Source 4: gardenandgun.com Source 5: neworleans.com Source 6: thehonestlocal.com Source 7: beneworleans.com Source 8: extraspace.com Source 9: reddit.com Source 10: facebook.com

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New Orleans, LAFrom Census ACS 2024.