Home Care Registered Nurse; RN

Home Care Registered Nurse (RN) - Full Time Days

Location:

Hackensack, NJ, United States

Date Posted:
Jun 16, 2025

Welcome to Holy Name, a medical center where innovation is not just a goal — it's a commitment. Here, medical excellence thrives, allowing hope to reign supreme and leaving no room for fear. At our hospital, every patient is cared for with undivided attention — because healing every soul is our sole focus.

Holy Name is New Jersey's only independent Catholic health system, comprising a 361-bed acute care hospital, a renowned cancer center, a state‑of‑the‑art fitness center, a residential hospice, a prestigious nursing school, and an extensive physician network. Healing at Holy Name goes beyond medicine and technology – it is infused with faith, conviction, compassion, and a commitment to educating the next generation of healthcare professionals through graduate medical education, a Pharmacy Residency Program, and our Institute for Simulation Learning.

Our mission to provide care for the body, mind, and soul spans education, prevention, diagnosis, treatment, rehabilitation, and overall wellness.

Coordinates and case manages total care of Home Care/Hospice patients, instructs and supervises Home Health Aides.

• The ability to comprehend spoken and written English, to communicate with clarity, work independently with non-combative and consistent behavior, good assessment and documentation skills, good technical procedure skills and/or willingness to learn ability to interact with a mixed patient population
• Performs initial and ongoing physical, psychosocial environmental assessment of Home Care patients
• Develops an appropriate Home Care plan of care for each patient to include: identification of nursing diagnoses, appropriate nursing interventions, identification of goals with appropriate time frames, referrals to other disciplines and/or community resources, suitable discharge plan and evaluation of care at discharge
• Explains all services to patients and anticipated visit patterns and length of time services will continue, and understands patients’ rights
• Involves patient, family and/or caregiver in the plan of care, identification of goals, and discharge plan
• Assists patient, family and/or caregiver in obtaining durable medical equipment and supplies essential to care
• Collaborates with referral source to identify patient’s needs, obtain pertinent information needed to develop nursing care plan
• Arranges for foreign language of sign language interpreter for patients if the need arises
• Observes and records signs and symptoms of a disease process, reports changes in the patient’s physical and/or emotional condition and response to the physician treatment and disciplinary team members
• Performs technical procedures within the scope of the board of Nursing Registered Nurse licensure standards and home care policies
• Obtains signed consent forms prior to the initiation of services
• Completes documentation on a timely basis and appropriately documents vital signs, measurements, nursing interventions, treatments, patient responses, admissions, assessments, narratives, flow sheets, recertifications and discharges as per Home Care policy
• Communicates with the Nurse Manager/Director and other health team members and social agency personnel in the planning, implementing, evaluating and coordinating of services to the patient and family in order to insure completeness and continuity of services
• Encourages and supports patient and family/caregiver self-direction and independence while providing needed services and facilitation of alternate community resources
• Serves as the case manager in multi-disciplinary cases and coordinates total patient care
• Completes home Health Aide assignment sheets and instructs and supervises the activities of Home Health Aides
• Performs patient and family/caregiver teaching related to diagnosis and treatment.
• Maintains a case load with productivity in compliance with agency standards, (1 FTE=25 visits/week)
• Attends nursing staff meetings and in‑services as scheduled.
• Carries out responsibilities efficiently and effectively in patient care and non‑patient care…