Bilingual Nurse Home Visitor

Summary

The Nurse-Family Partnership (NFP) Bilingual Nurse Home Visitor (NHV) is responsible for providing comprehensive nursing services to women and their families eligible for the NFP program. Nurse home visitors are responsible for maintaining the highest standards in clinical nursing practice, case management and care coordination, adherence to the NFP model, and to policies, procedures, guidelines, and standards of NFP and of Any Baby Can. The NHV provides home visits to women eligible for the NFP Programs (low-income, first-time mothers and their families, from early pregnancy up to 2 years of age), adheres to nursing process and the NFP model of home visitation, and carries a caseload of up to 25 active clients.

Nurse home visitors report to the NFP Nurse Supervisor. This position is required to attend online education sessions to learn the NFP model and guidelines.

Key

Responsibilities

Completes all required NFP education including Dyadic Assessment of Naturalistic Caregiver-Child Experiences (DANCE) training. Develops therapeutic relationships, utilize concepts of reflection and motivational interviewing with women and their families in a home visiting environment. Performs home visiting in accordance with the NFP Model Elements and NFP Visit-to-Visit guidelines and maintains appropriate, thorough, timely and compliant documentation on visits into an electronic database.

Follows nursing process in implementing NFP into nursing practice. Assess physical, emotional, social and environmental needs of women and their families as they relate to the NFP domains. Assists women and their families in establishing goals and outcomes; provide education, support and referral resources in attaining goals; evaluate clients’ progress and plan home visits in accordance with clients’ goals and NFP outcomes.

Consults and collaborates with other professionals involved in providing services to women and families. Formulates nursing diagnosis based on nursing assessment and client goals. Actively engages in professional development to meet all NFP Nurse Home Visitor competency requirements.

Meets with NFP Nurse Supervisor weekly for clinical supervision. Utilizes reflective practice in supervisory sessions. Schedules joint home visits with NFP Nurse Supervisor every four months.

Attends and participates in bi-weekly case conferences and team meetings. Provides information to support staff for timely and accurate data input to the NFP performance management system. Participates in review and analysis of reports for achievements and areas for improvement.

Participates in quality improvement efforts. Maintains confidentia