Wound Care Coordinator RN

St. Joseph Medical Center • Tacoma, WA

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About The Position

As our Wound Care Coordinator Nurse, you will specialize in comprehensive wound and ostomy care. You will elevate care quality, optimize patient outcomes, and ensure cost-effective management.Every day you will provide expert consultation and direct care for complex wounds. You'll assess, plan, and evaluate individualized care, educate patients/staff on best practices, monitor outcomes, and ensure protocol adherence.To be successful in this role, you will demonstrate strong critical thinking, communication, and a commitment to evidence-based practice.

Requirements

• Associates Of Science Nursing and two years of related work experience working with an interdisciplinary clinical team in one or more of the following clinical areas: Med/Surg, Gerontology, Home Health, or Wound Care that demonstrates attainment of the requisite job knowledge skills/abilities., upon hire
• Registered Nurse: WA, upon hire
• Basic Life Support - CPR, upon hire

Nice To Haves

• Bachelors Of Science Nursing, upon hire
• Certified Wound Care Nurse, upon hire
• Certified Wound Associate, upon hire
• Certified Wound Ostomy Continence Nurse, upon hire
• Certified Wound Ostomy Nurse, upon hire
• Certified Wound Specialist, upon hire
• Wound Care Certified, upon hire

Responsibilities

• Delivers and coordinates care to patients with alterations in skin/tissue integrity within the scope of practice and under the direction of physician or other clinician.
• Performs patient intake, initiating clinical pathway on admission.
• Collects patient history, reviews chart, lab reports, and other diagnostic/treatment data and develops nursing assessment.
• Reviews, assesses, measures, and evaluates wounds and wound progress/status, assigns grade/staging of wounds, and may photograph wounds.
• Contacts clinician to get orders.
• Cleans and irrigates wounds, determines appropriate dressing, and applies or changes dressing as required; may assist with debridement and other wound treatments as requested.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Education Level: Associate degree
• Number of Employees: 501-1,000 employees