RN Registered Nurse – Wound Care

Responsibilities:

• Performs comprehensive nursing assessment for those patients within scope of practice. Collaborates with the physician and multi-disciplinary care team to coordinate ongoing patient care. Uses data to develop and implement nursing interventions as appropriate to meet patient care needs and facilitate the discharge process. Performs wound/ostomy/continence/skin care based on sound nursing theory, scientific principles, evidence-based practice, professional judgment, and individual patient needs.
• Follows patient along continuum of care. Assesses and triages patients appropriately. Within scope of practice, monitors and documents patient's condition, effectiveness and timeliness of care and/or interventions; evaluates, updates and revises plan of care to facilitate achievement of planned and expected outcomes. Delegates appropriate components of the nursing care plan to other members of the nursing team.
• Assess educational needs of the patient and family/significant other considering cultural issues, age appropriate and other special concerns. Provides teaching and educational material to patient and/or family members/significant others concerning subject matter as appropriate for the specific patient need which may include diagnosis, safe and proper use of equipment, medications, self-care, or nutritional needs. Validates and documents patient and family understanding of teaching.
• Designs, directs, implements and evaluates educational offerings based on knowledge, skills and learning levels of nursing staff for wound/ostomy/continence/skin patient care. Works with the Nursing Institute to identify learning needs of nursing personnel.
• Others duties as assigned.

Education:

• Graduate from an accredited school of professional nursing.
• BSN required.

Certifications:

• Current licensure as an RN required
• 24 months to obtain wound ostomy continence certifications through the Wound Ostomy Continence Certification Board (WOCNCB)
• Current Basic Life Support (BLS) through American Heart Association (AHA) certification required

Competencies (Complexity of Work):

• Requires critical thinking skills, decisive judgement and the ability to work the minimal supervision.
• Must be able to work in a stressful environment and take appropriate action.

Work Experience:

• 1 year recent RN experience required.
• 2 years of recent RN experience preferred.

Physical Requirements:

• Light Work – Exerting up to 20 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 10 pounds of force frequently, and/or a negligible amount of force constantly (Constantly: activity or condition exists 2/3 or more of the time) to move objects.
• Even though the weight lifted may be only a negligible amount, a job should be rated Light Work: (1) when it requires walking or standing to a significant degree; or (2) when it requires sitting most of the time but entails pushing and/or pulling of arm or leg controls; and/or (3) when the job requires working at a production rate pace entailing the constant pushing and/or pulling of materials even though the weight of those materials is negligible.
• Note: The constant stress and strain of maintaining a production rate pace, especially in an industrial setting, can be and is physically demanding of a worker even though the amount of force exerted is negligible.

Personal Protective Equipment:

• Follows standard precautions using personal protective equipment as required for procedures.