Hospice Retention Academy

Keep the clinicians who keep hospice human.

Turnover is the tax hospice pays for skipping the culture work. These guides give leaders — and clinicians — the tools to prevent burnout, protect meaning, and make the fifth year in hospice more sustainable than the first.

What you’ll learn

Topic 1

Compassion Fatigue & Moral Distress

Recognize the earliest signals in yourself and your team, before they become an exit interview.

Topic 2

Hospice Burnout Prevention

Evidence-based individual and team-level interventions that actually move the needle.

Topic 3

Psychological Safety on the Team

The behaviors that make a hospice team feel safe to grieve, ask questions, and admit uncertainty.

Topic 4

30 / 60 / 90-Day Onboarding

The onboarding rhythm that gets a new hospice clinician competent, connected, and confident.

Topic 5

Preceptor Development

How to build preceptors who create the next generation of hospice clinicians (not just the next generation of task-doers).

Topic 6

Stay Interviews

The conversation that predicts turnover 90 days before it happens — and prevents it.

Topic 7

Recognition That Lands

Beyond “employee of the month” — how to recognize hospice clinicians in ways that matter.

Topic 8

Career Development in Hospice

Clinical ladders, cross-training, and second-decade growth paths that keep senior clinicians engaged.

Topic 9

Manager Effectiveness

The single biggest lever on retention is the direct manager. This is how to be the one people stay for.

Content grounded in authoritative sources

Stamm Professional Quality of Life Scale (ProQOL)Maslach Burnout InventoryHHS clinician well-being frameworkNHPCO workforce resourcesAONL nurse leader well-being toolkit

Educational content only. Not a substitute for your organization’s policies, your medical director’s clinical judgment, or current CMS guidance. See individual pages for author/reviewer bylines and last-reviewed dates.

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