Wound Care Nurse

Bethany Children's Health Center • Bethany, OK

1d • Onsite

About The Position

The Wound Care Nurse serves as a clinical expert for wound prevention, assessment, treatment, and skin integrity management. This role works collaboratively with nursing, rehabilitation, medical staff, nutrition services, infection prevention, and patient families to promote healing, prevent complications, and improve quality outcomes related to pressure injuries, surgical wounds, gastrostomy sites, tracheostomy sites, and other complex pediatric wounds.

Requirements

• Associate’s degree in nursing
• Ability to speak, understand, read, and write English required.
• Minimum two (2) years of RN experience required.
• Registration and current RN license in Oklahoma.
• CPR and PALS Certification.

Nice To Haves

• Bachelor’s degree in Nursing preferred.
• Experience in wound care, pediatric nursing, rehabilitation nursing, critical care, or long-term care preferred.
• Wound Care Certification (WCC, CWCN, CWON, CWOCN, WOCN or equivalent) preferred.

Responsibilities

• Performs comprehensive skin and wound assessments for all patients requiring consultation, including pressure injuries, surgical wounds, ostomy sites, gastrostomy sites, tracheostomy sites, and other complex wounds. Develops individualized evidence-based treatment plans and recommendations.
• Leads pressure injury prevention initiatives through patient rounding, risk assessment review, staff coaching, and implementation of best practices to reduce hospital-acquired pressure injuries.
• Collaborates with interdisciplinary teams including physicians, therapists, respiratory therapists, nutrition services, infection prevention, and nursing teams to optimize patient outcomes.
• Provides consultation, education, competency validation, and bedside coaching to nursing staff regarding wound treatment, dressing selection, documentation requirements, and skin integrity maintenance.
• Coordinates the organization's wound care program, including serving as Chair or designated coordinator of the Wound Care Committee or interdisciplinary wound care workgroup, as applicable. Facilitates meetings, reviews quality data and wound care practices, coordinates action items, and promotes ongoing standardization and evidence-based practice.
• Monitors wound care outcomes and quality metrics. Participates in regulatory readiness, accreditation surveys, root cause analyses, quality improvement projects, and policy development.
• Leads or assists with product evaluation and wound care supply management; supports wound care-related clinical trials and research activities, as applicable; facilitates implementation of evidence-based practices; and develops, reviews, and standardizes wound care treatment protocols throughout the organization.
• Other duties as assigned.

Benefits

• competitive compensation
• benefits
• state-of-the-art equipment
• wellness programs
• Opportunities for professional growth include in-service training, leadership development, tuition reimbursement and scholarships.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: Associate degree