Staff Nurse - Wound Healing

Fisher-Titus Medical Center•Norwalk, OH

3d•Onsite

About The Position

Fisher-Titus proudly serves the greater Huron County area’s 70,000-plus residents by providing a full continuum of health and wellness care from heart and cancer care to outpatient services such as lab, imaging, and physical rehabilitation. Vision: Be the first choice for healthcare and employment within our community Mission: Deliver compassionate and convenient care to the highest level of excellence that promotes lifelong health and wellness for our community. Under the direction of the Manager, Center for Wound Healing, the Staff Nurse manages individualized, goal-directed nursing care through use of the nursing process and the principles of primary nursing in accordance with departmental and hospital policies and procedures.

Requirements

Assesses and diagnoses patient and family needs to provide quality care to assigned patients.
Demonstrates the skills and judgement necessary to implement nursing intervention, and procedures as necessary for the care of the patient.
Develops, discusses, and communicates a realistic problem list (plan of care) for each patient, in collaboration with each patient/family/significant other to address all identified needs.
Evaluates the identified problems, care provided, and patient's responses are reassessed in order to meet patient and family needs to ensure overall quality of care delivery.
Maintains up to date and accurate documentation of nursing care provided to ensure the integration of information for use by the healthcare team, to ensure quality care.
Efficiency in job role
Provides coverage for hyperbaric treatment as assigned, if applicable.
Completes three Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy Treatments per quarter, one daily start up, one daily shut down, and one weekly chamber check per quarter.
Attends all required safety training programs and can describe responsibilities related to general safety, department/service safety and specific job related hazards.
Follows the hospital exposer control plans/bloodborne and airborne pathogens.
Promotes effective working relationships and works effectively as part of a department/unit team intra and interdepartmentally to facilitate the departments/units ability to meet its goals and objectives.

Responsibilities

Assesses and diagnoses patient and family needs to provide quality care to assigned patients.
Demonstrates the skills and judgement necessary to implement nursing intervention, and procedures as necessary for the care of the patient.
Develops, discusses, and communicates a realistic problem list (plan of care) for each patient, in collaboration with each patient/family/significant other to address all identified needs.
Evaluates the identified problems, care provided, and patient's responses are reassessed in order to meet patient and family needs to ensure overall quality of care delivery.
Maintains up to date and accurate documentation of nursing care provided to ensure the integration of information for use by the healthcare team, to ensure quality care.
Provides coverage for hyperbaric treatment as assigned, if applicable.
Completes three Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy Treatments per quarter, one daily start up, one daily shut down, and one weekly chamber check per quarter.
Attends all required safety training programs and can describe responsibilities related to general safety, department/service safety and specific job related hazards.
Follows the hospital exposer control plans/bloodborne and airborne pathogens.
Promotes effective working relationships and works effectively as part of a department/unit team intra and interdepartmentally to facilitate the departments/units ability to meet its goals and objectives.