Wound Care Nurse
About The Position
As a Wound Care Nurse, you will be a pivotal healthcare professional, delivering compassionate, high-quality care that truly impacts our patients' well-being and recovery. Every day, you will leverage your expertise to provide individualized, comprehensive care, making critical assessments, performing skilled procedures, and meticulously implementing patient care plans. You will be expected to collaborate seamlessly within an interdisciplinary team, contributing to a dynamic environment focused on optimal patient outcomes. To be successful in this role, you will possess keen assessment skills, acute critical thinking, and a patient-first mindset, driven by a profound enthusiasm to help others. Your sense of urgency and dedication to excellence in a fast-paced environment will not only support patient recovery but also fuel your own career advancement.
Requirements
- Minimum Two years of acute care experience
- Associate degree of Nursing
- Registered Nurse: AZ (RN:AZ)
- American Heart Association Basic Life Support for the healthcare provider (AHA BLS)
- Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to effectively communicate verbally and in writing providing excellent customer service
- Excellent organizational skills with the ability to multitask and handle multiple priorities/tasks simultaneously in a fast paced environment
- Basic computer literacy and proficiency in Microsoft Windows
Nice To Haves
- Bachelor's degree of Nursing
- Wound care experience
- Certified Wound Ostomy Continence Nurse (CWOCN)
- Wound Care Certified (WCC)
Responsibilities
- Performs assessments and delivers treatment plans per physician or non-physician practitioner orders on individuals with wound care needs in an outpatient setting.
- Evaluates patient response to treatment and the progress of wound healing, making adjustments and modifications to protocols.
- Provides appropriate education to patient, caregiver, family and staff regarding skin care and wound management.
- Discuss patient progress, including discharge needs, with referring physician, provider or facility as needed to determine appropriate follow up care.
- Maintains current knowledge and competency in skin and wound care through periodic in-servicing, seminars, conferences, literature review and attendance at continuing education opportunities.
- Supervises and delegates wound dressings, treatments and testing to wound care tech or other trained personnel, if appropriate.
Benefits
- Education Benefit program for benefit-eligible employees after 180 days
- Debt relief and student loan assistance
- Full-time employees can receive up to $18,000 over five years
- Part-time employees can receive up to $9,000
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
Associate degree
