Wound Care Coordinator RN
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. 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.
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 or Certified Wound Associate, upon hire or Certified Wound Ostomy Continence Nurse, upon hire or Certified Wound Ostomy Nurse, upon hire or Certified Wound Specialist, upon hire or Wound Care Certified, upon hire
Responsibilities
- Specialize in comprehensive wound and ostomy care.
- Elevate care quality, optimize patient outcomes, and ensure cost-effective management.
- Provide expert consultation and direct care for complex wounds.
- Assess, plan, and evaluate individualized care
- Educate patients/staff on best practices
- Monitor outcomes
- Ensure protocol adherence
- Deliver and coordinate care to patients with alterations in skin/tissue integrity within the scope of practice and under the direction of physician or other clinician.
- Perform patient intake, initiating clinical pathway on admission.
- Collect patient history, review chart, lab reports, and other diagnostic/treatment data and develop nursing assessment.
- Review, assess, measure, and evaluate wounds and wound progress/status, assign grade/staging of wounds, and may photograph wounds.
- Contact clinician to get orders.
- Clean and irrigate wounds, determine appropriate dressing, and apply or change dressing as required; may assist with debridement and other wound treatments as requested.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
Associate degree
Number of Employees
5,001-10,000 employees
