WOC Registered Nurse

Emory Healthcare•Atlanta, GA

12d•$45 - $52•Onsite

About The Position

Emory Healthcare is seeking a RN Clinician with a strong background in wound, ostomy, and continence (W.O.C) care. This role supports a strong, unified WOC team that partners collaboratively with departments to ensure high-quality, patient-centered outcomes. The RN Clinician will be an integral member of interprofessional teams across hospital and clinic settings, committed to delivering outstanding patient care. This position directs agency-wide initiatives for pressure ulcer prevention, wound care and ostomy care, including supporting pressure ulcer prevalence data collection, evidence-based policies, procedures, and protocols, and advising on appropriate support surfaces, products, and staff decision-making algorithms. The role also involves developing and conducting educational programs and clinical instruction for Emory Healthcare staff and students enrolled in Emory University's Wound Ostomy Continence Education Program. Additionally, the RN Clinician provides advanced clinical guidance to physicians and nursing staff regarding the management of complex wounds, fistulas, moisture management, and pressure ulcers, and determines appropriate nursing interventions for identified patient problems, symptoms, and teaching needs in respect to wound and ostomy care. The role also recommends necessary equipment, materials, and resources, performs pre-operative stoma site marking and ostomy education, and develops post-operative ostomy education and care plans for patients and families. The position requires a minimum of two years of nursing experience, a BSN (or completion of RN-MSN), MSN, DNP program, and specialty certification. The nurse will demonstrate expertise in chosen scholarly activities focused on the advancement or promotion of the profession, role model dependable, effective, and efficient care, and demonstrate expert assessment skills. This role involves monitoring adherence to documentation standards, providing feedback to staff, and implementing changes to the documentation process. The nurse will establish, promote, and evaluate standardized plans of care using evidence-based research, stay informed of innovative clinical trends, and collaborate to develop standardized teaching materials. The position requires adherence to policies and procedures, identification and initiation of educational programs, and dissemination of current evidence-based practice. The nurse will question clinical practice related to research, role model and educate others utilizing the Synergy model for patient care, and role model delegation skills. The nurse will assume a leadership and resource role with the interdisciplinary team, orient staff or students as assigned, evaluate resource use and cost containment, and lead team behavior while fostering leadership skills in others. Effective communication, conflict resolution, and the ability to build and maintain an environment of open communication are essential. The role requires taking appropriate action to correct unacceptable practice and developing staff competencies. The nurse will intuitively use self in the therapeutic relationship, respect others' values, suspend judgment, plan constructive interventions based on patient values, and effectively elicit and integrate cultural beliefs into patient management. Patient satisfaction feedback will be used in designing patient care delivery, and the nurse will assist colleagues in resolving issues and facilitate escalation if necessary. Identifying and addressing the needs of long-term or extended stay patients to improve satisfaction, monitoring issues and their resolution, and respecting confidential information are also key responsibilities. Employees must meet all Clinical Nurse I Employee Commitments and achieve electives and contact hours as defined in the PLAN (clinical lattice) system to maintain their position.

Requirements

Graduate of an accredited prelicensure Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) and Completion of an accredited WOC Nursing Education program
Two years experience as an RN
Must have a valid, active unencumbered Nursing license approved by the Georgia Licensing Board.
BLS certification
ACLS may be required in designated departments.
Nursing Specialty Certification
If completing virtual care activities that may include multi-state practice, an active compact/multistate license (eNLC) is required within 60 days of hire.

Nice To Haves

Direct experience in WOC practice and completion of an accredited WOC Nursing Education Program are preferred.
Certification - Certification in Continence Care

Responsibilities

Directs agency-wide initiatives for pressure ulcer prevention, wound care and ostomy care, to include supporting pressure ulcer prevalence data collection, evidence-based policies, procedures, and protocols, and advisement of appropriate support surfaces, products, and staff decision-making algorithms.
Develops and conducts educational programs and clinical instruction for Emory Healthcare staff and students enrolled in Emory University's "Wound Ostomy Continence Education Program."
Provides advanced clinical guidance to physicians and nursing staff regarding the management of complex wounds, fistulas, moisture management, and pressure ulcers.
Determines appropriate nursing interventions for identified patient problems, symptoms, and teaching needs in respect to wound and ostomy care.
Recommends the equipment, materials, and resources needed to successfully implement a wound or ostomy care plan.
Performs appropriate pre-operative stoma site marking and ostomy education.
Develops and conducts post-operative ostomy education and ostomy care plan for the patient and family.
Clinical expert in area of specialization.
Integrates knowledge gained through practice and education to respond intuitively to patient/family needs.
Routinely leads efforts to strengthen organizational systems that support patient care.
Adept at creative problem-solving, negotiating conflict, and collaborating with others.
Demonstrates insight, judgment, and clinically sound risk-taking.
Role models expert communication skills to colleagues through example and has achieved clinical expertise and leadership, is viewed as a professional leader within the unit and beyond.
Advances and leads evidence-based practices, participates, and leads in unit governance, leads unit projects, and mentors other nurses to achieve in the role of the professional nurse.
Demonstrates expertise in chosen scholarly activities focused on the advancement or promotion of the profession.
Role models dependable, effective, and efficient care to a patient population using the nursing process.
Demonstrates expert assessment skills.
Demonstrates foresight regarding the impact of nursing care on patient outcomes based on intuition and experience.
Is recognized as an expert clinician and a leader within their area of specialty and assists less experienced nurses concerning patient care.
Monitors the adherence to documentation standards, provides feedback to staff, and implements test(s) of change.
Assists management in making and implementing changes to the documentation process as necessary.
Establishes, promotes, and evaluates standardized plans of care for the unit using evidence-based research within the area of specialty.
Remains informed of innovative clinical trends through benchmarking and evidence-based practice.
Collaborates with management and patient/family advisor council to develop standardized teaching materials for patient and family learning needs.
Demonstrates exemplary practice using AACN Synergy Model for Patient Care.
Role models time management skills through example.
Ensures compliance and adherence with stated policies and procedures for a patient population.
Identifies, initiates, and collaborates to provide needed educational programs.
Demonstrates current evidence-based practice and disseminates information.
Questions clinical practice as it relates to research.
Role models and educates others utilizing the Synergy model for patient care.
Role models delegation skills to colleagues and assists others in effective delegation utilizing the Synergy model of care.
Assumes a leadership and resource role with the interdisciplinary team.
Considered the expert and is viewed as a formal leader.
Orients staff or students as assigned in absence of designated preceptor.
Evaluates the use of resources and cost containment activities.
Leads and coordinates team behavior between staff members and actively fosters the development of leadership skills in others.
Exhibits desire to hear and understand another's point of view.
Demonstrates and role models effective communication skills.
Takes a leadership role in building and maintaining an environment which fosters open and candid communication.
Takes appropriate action to correct unacceptable practice as needed.
Develops staff competencies utilizing Clinical Nurse Specialists as resource/consultant.
Actively participates in monitoring and developing staff competency.
Intuitively uses self in the therapeutic relationship to enhance care.
Respects others' values and suspends judgment.
Plans constructive interventions based on the patient's values.
Effectively elicits cultural beliefs and values from patients and integrates these into overall patient management.
Utilizes patient satisfaction feedback as a factor in designing patient care delivery.
Assists colleagues in resolving routine, non-routine or complex issues and facilitates escalation if necessary.
Identifies and systematically addresses the needs of long-term or extended stay patients to improve satisfaction.
Monitors issues and their resolution.
Respects and maintains confidential information.
Must meet all Clinical Nurse I Employee Commitments.
Achieves electives and contact hours as defined in the PLAN (clinical lattice) system to maintain position.