Staff Nurse Burn Unit
About The Position
The Staff Nurse is a professional nurse who, with minimal supervision, provides nursing care to patients. Care includes assessment, interventions, and reassessment, as well as planning, implementing, educating, and evaluating care for patients and caregivers. The role is in the six-bed Burn Center, which provides acute, critical, ambulatory, and rehabilitative care for pediatric burn patients. The unit also accepts trauma and surgery patients who do not have an infection. An interdisciplinary team provides comprehensive care to children from birth through young adulthood and supports patients’ and families’ physical, emotional, and social needs. The team provides teaching on scar management, mobility, and coping strategies, and follows burn patients both during hospitalization and as outpatients in the burn clinic.
Requirements
- Graduate of an accredited school of nursing; an Associate of Science in Nursing is listed as an equivalent qualification.
- Current BLS certification.
- Current Registered Nurse license in Alabama, or an accepted equivalent: Alabama NLC multistate RN license or non-Alabama NLC multistate RN license.
- Ability to use medical equipment, patient records, reports, and computers.
Responsibilities
- Assess patients, provide interventions, and reassess their condition.
- Plan, implement, educate, and evaluate care for patients and caregivers.
- Work with the interdisciplinary team to provide comprehensive care to pediatric burn and other eligible trauma or surgery patients.
- Provide or support teaching for patients and parents concerning scar management, mobility, and coping strategies.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Education Level
Associate degree
