Registered Nurse, Home Infusion

About This Role

The Registered Nurse in Home Infusion brings specialized nursing care directly to patients, helping individuals and families safely manage complex therapies in the comfort of their homes. This role offers an opportunity to combine advanced infusion skills, autonomy, patient education, and relationship-centered nursing to make a meaningful difference throughout each patient's treatment journey.

Responsibilities

• Travel to patients' homes to provide skilled infusion nursing services while independently managing an assigned patient schedule
• Perform comprehensive assessments before, during, and after infusion therapy and communicate changes in condition or adverse findings to physicians and pharmacy team members
• Administer IV infusions, injections, chemotherapy, biologics, parenteral therapies, and first doses of antibiotics according to physician orders and established protocols
• Establish and maintain vascular access, including peripheral IVs, PICC lines, ports, and central lines, while identifying and managing access-related concerns
• Educate adult and pediatric patients and caregivers on infusion administration, pump operation and troubleshooting, medications, potential side effects, and signs and symptoms of complications
• Assess each patient and caregiver's ability and willingness to safely participate in home infusion therapy and adapt education to their individual needs
• Initiate continuous home infusion therapies in physician offices, outpatient clinics, hospital settings, and patient homes while obtaining required consents and beginning patient education
• Monitor patients for adverse reactions and respond appropriately to clinical concerns and emergencies
• Perform skilled nursing visits based on individual treatment plans, including blood collection and coordination of laboratory specimen delivery when clinically indicated
• Maintain infection prevention, sterile technique, medication safety, proper sharps and hazardous waste handling, and established infusion best practices
• Accurately document assessments, treatments, education, interventions, and patient responses within the electronic medical record
• Collaborate with physicians, pharmacists, patients, caregivers, and other healthcare professionals to promote safe, coordinated, and patient-centered home infusion care

Requirements

• Graduate of an accredited nursing program with an Associate Degree in Nursing (ADN) or Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN)
• Active New Jersey Registered Nurse (RN) license
• Current BLS and IV certifications
• Minimum of two to three years of RN experience, preferably within infusion therapy, medical-surgical oncology, ambulatory care, or critical care
• Demonstrated experience in IV therapy and venous access