RN Wound Care
About The Position
As our Registered Nurse (RN), you will be a pivotal healthcare professional, delivering compassionate, high-quality care that truly impacts our patients' well-being and recovery. Every day, you will leverage your expertise to provide individualized, comprehensive care, making critical assessments, performing skilled procedures, and meticulously implementing patient care plans. You'll collaborate seamlessly within an interdisciplinary team, contributing to a dynamic environment focused on optimal patient outcomes. To thrive in this vital role, you will possess keen assessment skills, acute critical thinking, and a patient-first mindset, driven by a profound enthusiasm to help others. Your sense of urgency and dedication to excellence in a fast-paced environment will not only support patient recovery but also fuel your own career advancement.
Requirements
- Minimal education as required for licensure
- Wound care experience, mininum 1 year in a Home Health agency
- 1 year SNF or in an acute care setting as a wound care nurse
- Current and active Registered Nurse: CA
- AHA Basic Life Support
Nice To Haves
- Bachelors Of Science Nursing, upon hire
- Certified Wound Care Nurse
- Wound Care Certified
Responsibilities
- Provides effective, comprehensive evidence based nursing care to achieve desired health outcomes.
- Organizes and prioritizes patient care activities balanced with the needs and comfort of the patient.
- Collaborates with other disciplines to insure comprehensive, holistic and effective plan of care.
- Applies knowledge of current practice standards, guidelines, statutes, rules and regulations.
- Demonstrates accountability for own ethical behavior and supports ethical practice by addressing or escalating issues.
- Serves as a patient advocate.
- Completes patient assessments competently.
- Assesses for and identifies needs of unit-specific patient population: Assesses for and identifies any physical, emotional, psychosocial, spiritual, educational, discharge and cultural needs.
- Completes an individualized plan of care based on assessment of the patient.
- Coordinates with other disciplines when indicated.
- Prioritizes care needs and sets measurable goals and time frames.
- Includes patient and family in the planning.
- Implements interventions based on nursing and medical plan of care.
- Manages patient population, diagnosis and age specific needs through appropriate adaptation of interventions.
- Appropriately utilizes equipment and supplies.
- After implementation, reassesses the patient to verify effectiveness of interventions.
- Updates the plan of care to reflect current care needs.
- Demonstrates the ability to recognize and adapt to changes in patients condition (i.e.. LOC change, vital signs, test results)in a timely and clinically appropriate manner.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
