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Home Health Care: Opening Doors To Our Patients

For today’s nurse, doors that lead into new career opportunities are opening directly into the homes of patients. Home health care is a rewarding choice to practice your profession and utilize your clinical skills within the Saint Barnabas Health Care System.

Considered one of the most challenging nursing specialties, home health care provides you with the unique opportunity to deliver patient care outside the hospital walls within a community setting.

It takes a great deal of competency, compassion and understanding to provide care to individuals with acute illnesses, short- and long-term conditions and disabilities in their homes.

Home health care is one of the most fulfilling career choices — both personally and professionally — as you’ll develop unique caregiver relationships in a flexible working environment.

Home health care through the Saint Barnabas Health Care System is all about making a difference in someone’s life, and being appreciated and respected for it.

Attracting Nurses From A Host Of Inpatient Settings

Saint Barnabas Health Care System offers fully accredited, Medicare-certified home care agencies through two hospital affiliates — the JerseyCare Home Health Program at Clara Maass Medical Center, Belleville, and the Home Health and Van Dyke Hospice Program at Community Medical Center, Toms River.

Because of the wide scope of services delivered through each program, we attract nurses with experience from many clinical inpatient settings, including medical/surgical, maternal/child, pediatrics, obstetrics, emergency department and critical care.

As a home health care nurse, you will join an interdisciplinary team whose focus is to return patients to their highest possible level of independence and self-management.

Your colleagues will include clinical nurse specialists, physical, occupational and speech therapists, medical social workers, nutritional counselors, certified home health aides and other specialized professionals.

Home care nursing presents unique challenges not found in the traditional health care environment. Our nurses possess strong assessment skills and demonstrate a certain degree of flexibility in caring for patients in their places of residence.

They are highly competent in performing skilled nursing care, including wound care, medication and pain management, disease and symptom management, as well as providing individualized education to patients and their families.

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