Rn Home Hospital

Home Hospital 

What is Home Hospital?
Home Hospital is an innovative, state of the art, collaboration which provides patients with the type of medical care you would normally receive as an inpatient in the hospital, but is provided by a team of clinicians in the patients' home.

How Home Hospital Works:
ER Patients are assessed for Home Hospital by MD's and Advanced Practice Providers. If a patient is identified as appropriate for Home Hospital and consents to be treated at home, they will be transported home to be "admitted" by the Home Hospital care team into MGB Home Hospital program.

What is the Home Hospital RN role specifically?

• Home Hospital patient average length of stay is approximately 4-7 days.
• The nurses work 12 hour days, and every 3rd weekend. One  holiday in summer/winter
• Normally nurses will treat 3-4 patients a day/twice a day in the morning and then again in the afternoon.. In between they are typically dropping off labs, documenting, eat lunch, picking up supplies/meds etc.
• The average visits last anywhere from 30 minutes- 1.5 hours (depending on need)

• RN documentation is like an inpatient RN's. fill out their am visits. flow sheets, medication sheets and write a note (no homecare Oasis note) Nurses have huddles daily to discuss patients status
• Discharge plan is a collaboration with the hospital MD, APP. and Home Hospital Care Team.

Job Summary

24 or 36 hour days, Acute Care -Home Hospital Program- Boston area

every third weekend rotation

Provide quality, clinical services to patients in various settings in the community.   Patient care is delivered within organizational philosophy, policy and standards of nursing and community health practice.  The responsibilities are performed in accordance with MGB Home Hospital policies and standards of practice, utilizing thorough and timely electronic documentation and interdisciplinary communications.  Skilled nursing care is provided in the form of assessment, teaching, treatment, documentation and care coordination demonstrating high quality customer service, and financial awareness.

   Qualifications and Experience

• Graduate of an approved School of Nursing
• Current Massachusetts license as Registered Nurse
• Minimum of one year previous nursing experience in acute, emergency or post-acute care setting required.
• Prior home care experience preferred.
• Travel required within Home Hospital geographic area

• Ability to work with various computer software applications and technologies required.
• Strong interpersonal and customer service and ability to work with a diverse population
• Ability to communicate effectively in writing, verbally and electronically
• Ability to work as a member of an interdisciplinary team of health care providers
• Ability to organize and prioritize work, and adapt to changing situations
• Ability to work independently, be self-directed and adapt to unpredictable circumstances.

Nursing experience in any of the following is helpful.

• Medical-Surgical
• Critical Care and Intensive Care
• Cardiology
• Telemetry
• Home Health
• Emergency Medicine
• Wound Care
• Oncology
• Geriatrics
• Trauma Medicine
• Surgery
• Primary Care
• Urgent Care
• Internal Medicine
• Hospital Medicine