RN, Wound Care Specialist (Full-Time, Day Shift)
About The Position
Adventist Health Delano is a full-service community and regional teaching hospital with a 156-bed medical center serving 10 rural Central California cities. The Wound Care Specialist provides care to medically complex patients in collaboration with physicians in a specialized acute care setting. Working within scope and experience, the specialist autonomously oversees assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation of the wound, ostomy, and continence care program throughout inpatient care areas. The specialist serves as a resource and consultant for wound care management, including identification, assessment, treatment, and prevention. The role provides specialized consultation on wound, ostomy, and continence issues for patients, families, nursing staff, and medical staff, and advises on patients with draining wounds, fistulas, tubes, or altered skin integrity due to pressure necrosis, drainage, or incontinence. The specialist works with physicians and nursing staff to provide updated wound-care information and conducts rounds on patients with wounds, pressure ulcers, or pressure injuries as needed. The role also performs the nursing process of assessment, diagnosis, planning, implementation, coordination, and evaluation; collaborates with patients, families, and healthcare providers; provides health information and learning opportunities; maintains supplies and equipment; and documents patient status, interventions, and responses. All associates are required to receive applicable vaccinations as a condition of employment and annually thereafter; medical and religious exemptions may apply.
Requirements
- Registered Nurse (RN) licensure in the state of practice.
- Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) certification or Basic Life Support (BLS) certification from an approved vendor per Adventist Health policy.
- Basic Life Support (BLS) certification from an approved vendor per Adventist Health policy at the facility.
- Receive required vaccinations as a condition of employment and annually thereafter where applicable; medical and religious exemptions may apply.
Nice To Haves
- Bachelor's Degree in Nursing (BSN).
- Relevant clinical nursing experience.
- Wound care certification, with a plan to achieve it within a determined time period.
Responsibilities
- Assess medically complex patients and provide wound, ostomy, and continence care in collaboration with physicians.
- Oversee assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation of the wound, ostomy, and continence care program throughout inpatient care areas.
- Identify, assess, treat, and help prevent wound-care issues; provide specialized consultation to patients, families, nursing staff, and medical staff.
- Consult on the management of patients with draining wounds, fistulas, tubes, or altered skin integrity related to pressure necrosis, drainage, or incontinence.
- Work with physicians and nursing staff to provide updated wound-care information.
- Conduct rounds on patients with wounds, pressure ulcers, and pressure injuries as needed.
- Collect and analyze relevant patient data, identify diagnoses and care issues, develop and implement care plans, coordinate care, and evaluate progress toward outcomes.
- Collaborate with patients, families, and healthcare providers to provide care in a safe, healing, humane, and caring environment.
- Provide learning opportunities and health information to patients, families, and team members.
- Maintain appropriate supplies and equipment and complete, accurate, concise, legible documentation of patient status, interventions, and responses.
- Perform other job-related duties as assigned.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Education Level
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