Nursing Resident, Home Care

About the Role

The Home Health Nurse Residency program is a twelve-month structured program designed for newly graduated nurses to transition successfully to the role of a proficient Home Health RN Case Manager. The program incorporates classroom, virtual learning, and hands-on clinical practice.

Key Responsibilities

• Learn and understand the Principles of Home Health Nursing and Quality Outcome drivers.
• Attend skill labs, structured in-person classroom, and virtual lectures.
• Synthesize components of assessment focusing on physiologic, psychosocial, and cognitive status.
• Submit reflections on experiences.
• Gain exposure to creating a safe patient environment by learning the principles of a high reliability organization.
• Attend and participate in learning experiences to educate the Home Health Nurse Resident on essential elements of home health nursing.
• Collaborate and communicate with managers, mentors, preceptors, and other clinical team members to establish professional standards of clinical practice and professional development.
• Develop critical thinking skills and knowledge to ensure assessment, planning, intervention, and evaluation of patient care follows policy, procedure, and standards of care.
• Develop the ability to care for patients in a holistic manner.
• Acquire and demonstrate knowledge and competency in completion of assigned treatments and procedures.
• Learn, understand, and demonstrate compliance with physician orders.
• Acquire the skills and demonstrate professional documentation of all required elements to reflect the safe delivery of patient care within the electronic medical record.
• Learn to collaborate and coordinate with the interdisciplinary team.
• Obtain the skills to develop and update the home health plan of care.
• Learn to utilize appropriate resources to ensure the patient's ability to manage their disease independently.
• Report patient care problems to manager or appropriate nursing management personnel and/or physician in a timely manner with possible solutions.
• Assure documentation indicates case communication.
• Appropriately utilize the mentor, manager, and preceptor as a resource.
• Other duties and/or projects as assigned.
• Demonstrate flexibility with job responsibilities.
• Adheres to HMH's Organizational competencies and standards of behavior.
• Lifts a minimum of 50 lbs., pushes and pulls a minimum of 50 lbs., and stands a minimum of 8 hours a day.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Associate's Degree in Nursing or Diploma Certificate in Nursing.
• Ability to work varied days and varied hours.
• Ability to learn quickly in immersive environments.
• PC Experience/Skills.

Qualifications

• NJ State Professional Registered Nurse License.
• AHA Basic Health Care Life Support HCP Certification.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience as a patient care technician, certified home health aide, or CNA.
• BSN.