Onboarding is a critical time period in an employee’s work experience, and employees who receive a comprehensive, quality educational program will be more equipped for success. By leveraging MedBridge resources and tools, you can better prepare your staff for the unique demands of home-based care that will support a long-tenure and successful career at your organization.
Below you will find a recommended onboarding curriculum for new nurse hires. We recommend you build one Knowledge Track with all the information below, creating separate sections for each area. This can then be assigned to all nurses at your organization automatically.
This track can be customized to fit your needs, including adding or removing MedBridge courses or your agency's custom content. We recommend assigning one section per week, but the timing of this can adjusted to fit the needs of your agency.
For more information about building Knowledge Tracks, check out Getting Started With the MedBridge LMS.
Track Name: Welcome to Home Care for Nurses
Track Description: This training covers fundamental home health practice, bridging the gap for clinical staff into care delivery within the home.
Section 1: Week 1 - Home Care Fundamentals
| Course Title | Video Run Time (Minutes) |
| Welcome to Home Care: An Overview | 25 |
| Orientation Program: Team Member Safety in the Community | 43 |
| How to Make an Effective Home Visit | 78 |
| Total Section Time: | 2.4 hours |
Note: This section can be omitted from the onboarding curriculum for experienced home care clinicians
Section 2: Week 2 - Comprehensive Assessment and Care Planning
| Course Title | Video Run Time (Minutes) |
| Comprehensive Home Care Assessment Part 1:Key Elements & Requirements | 24 |
| Comprehensive Home Care Assessment Part 2: Data Review & Care Planning | 43 |
| Coordination of Care and Services in Home Health | 51 |
| Orientation: Care Planning | 96 |
| Total Section Time: | 3.5 hours |
Section 3: Week 3 - OASIS
Section 4: Week 4 - Documentation and Case Management
| Course Title | Video Run Time (Minutes) |
| What Is Case Management in Home Care? | 67 |
| Orientation: An Overview of Documentation Requirements in Home Care | 58 |
| ABN, HHCCN, and NOMNC: When and Which to Give! | 57 |
| Total Section Time: | 3 hours |
Note: This section can be omitted from the onboarding curriculum for experienced home care clinicians
Section 4: Week 5 - Clinical In-Services
To wrap up your onboarding program, MedBridge recommends you choose 1–2 key areas of practice based on your patient population and provide targeted training to meet their needs. This helps promote evidence based care with reduced variability to your clinical staff. This example includes Wound Care training. For more options, check out our recommended Quality Improvement Knowledge Tracks.
| Course Title | Video Run Time (Minutes) |
| Wound Management: Skin Assessment and Wound Identification | 35 |
| Holistic Wound Healing Part 1: Understanding Causative Factors | 27 |
| Holistic Wound Healing Part 2: Treatment Techniques and Strategies | 40 |
| Total Section Time: | 1.5 hours |
In addition to these courses, you may want to assign regulatory and compliance training to your staff. For recommended MedBridge courses to fit these need, please view one of the articles below based on your organization's needs: