RN-Acute Wound Care Nurse II

Kaweah Health•Visalia, CA

9d•$50 - $75

About The Position

Kaweah Health is a publicly owned community healthcare organization serving the greater Visalia area in central California. The organization has more than 5,000 employees, an eight-campus healthcare district with 613 beds, and provides services across acute care hospitals, specialized health centers, and clinics. The RN-Acute Wound Care Nurse II provides expert nursing care, clinical assessment, and treatment recommendations for patients with complex wounds, ostomy needs, or incontinence issues. The nurse partners with registered nurses, ancillary staff, and physicians to provide education and develop individualized plans of care for patients requiring specialized expertise. The role serves as a primary clinical expert and resource for patients, staff, and physicians, and includes team-leader responsibilities for an assigned unit. This is a full-time, benefits-eligible position in Acute Wound Care IP Services, working a day shift with 12-hour shifts. The listed pay range is $50.24–$75.36.

Requirements

California RN license.
BLS certification.
Clinical nursing experience with acute wound care.

Nice To Haves

BSN, MSN, or current enrollment in an RN-BSN program.

Responsibilities

Practice in accordance with the nursing Code of Ethics and professional conduct; treat others respectfully and provide ethical, confidential, nonjudgmental, nondiscriminatory care that supports patient autonomy, dignity, and rights.
Advocate for patients and help them develop skills to advocate for themselves; identify high-risk patients and initiate appropriate ancillary interventions.
Use the nursing process, including assessment, diagnosis, planning, outcome identification, implementation, and evaluation.
Use quality and performance-improvement results to monitor care, identify improvement opportunities, recommend changes, assist with policies and practice guidelines, and participate in interdisciplinary teams and quality-improvement studies.
Collaborate and communicate with patients, families, and healthcare providers; formulate plans of care with patient involvement and make referrals to support continuity of care.
Serve as a clinical expert and resource for patients with complex wounds, ostomy care needs, or incontinence issues.
Guide staff and physicians in treatment recommendations and individualized care plans using approved organizational products; assist staff with product use and understanding treatment plans.
Manage and prioritize orders so patients with the greatest need are served first, maximizing quality of care and helping minimize hospital length of stay.
Promote collaboration among staff, physicians, other disciplines, and departments involved in patient care, maintaining open communication.
Provide staff support, guidance, and education regarding wound, ostomy, and incontinence care; alert the Nurse Manager to remediation issues as needed.
Make fiscally responsible decisions about time, supplies, and equipment, considering organizational costs and the potential effect of treatment plans on length of stay.
As team leader, serve as a clinical resource, role model, and mentor; represent the Nurse Manager when absent and support staff through problem solving and decision making.
As team leader, manage staff and patient flow; coordinate care in high-risk or emergent situations and keep the Nurse Manager, Director, or Nursing Supervisor informed about critical patients and unit issues.
As team leader, ensure patient care issues are documented and reported, ensure an appropriate nurse completes a Statement of Concern, and follow the Medical Staff and Kaweah Health chain of command.
As team leader, provide employee guidance, alert the Nurse Manager to counseling needs, provide patient care as needed, and make fiscally responsible staffing and patient-supply decisions.
Provide care appropriate to the population served, accounting for growth and development and patients’ and families’ cultural, linguistic, spiritual, gender, and age-specific needs.
Perform other duties as assigned.