Wound Care Nurse, Grand Valley Wound Care PRN

Community Hospital•Grand Junction, CO

2d•Onsite

About The Position

This position is for a Wound Care Nurse working in a Pool/PRN capacity at Grand Valley Wound Care. The role emphasizes family-centered care, teamwork, evidence-based practice, quality improvement, safety, informatics, and leadership. Nurses are expected to be agents of change, participate in committees, advance their professional development, and support organizational goals. They must work within their scope of practice and delegate according to the Nurse Practice Act, while also participating in shared governance activities and seeking opportunities for professional development.

Requirements

Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent combination of education and experience.
Current, unrestricted licensure as a Registered Nurse in Colorado.
Current BLS.
Current certification by Wound, Ostomy, and Continence Nursing Certification Board (WOCNB) as a CWOCN, WCN, CWON, NAWCO or COCN Wound Care Certified (WCC), and Certified Wound Specialist (CWS) required; may be obtained within 1 year of hire.

Responsibilities

Recognize the patient or designee as the source of control and full partner in providing compassionate and coordinated care based on respect for patient’s preferences, values, and needs.
Deliver patient and family-centered care incorporating the nursing process while providing developmentally appropriate, culturally sensitive, evidence-based care.
Actively anticipate changes in patient outcomes/unit needs in the provision of care.
Ensure care is informed by the specific professional practice model in place in the unit.
Communicate and advocate patient values, preferences, and expressed needs as part of the implementation of the care plan, evaluation of care, and assessment of patient/family learning needs to the interdisciplinary continuum using an interdisciplinary approach.
Function effectively within nursing and inter-professional teams, fostering open communication, mutual respect, and shared decision-making to achieve quality patient care.
Apply communication practices that minimize risks across transitions of care.
Present own perspective and supporting evidence in patient care and team discussions.
Collaborate with team members in shared decision-making.
Support and uphold the mission, vision, and values of Community Hospital.
Integrate best current evidence with clinical expertise and patient/family preferences and values for delivery of optimal health care.
Identify key concepts of research and evidence-based practice.
Participate in structuring the work environment to facilitate integration of new evidence into standards of practice.
Recognize and communicate the need for revision of hospital and departmental policies, procedures, practice guidelines, and/or measures for clinical practice evaluation.
Recognize the standard of care provided by the applicable professional organization and/or association.
Use data to monitor the outcomes of care processes and use improvement methods to design and test changes to continuously improve the quality and safety of healthcare systems.
Utilize outcome data at the patient level to make care decisions.
Participate in quality improvement activities, which may include Root Cause Analyses, Apparent Cause Analyses, Capacity Operation Safety Huddles, Nursing Bed Huddles, & Interdisciplinary Meetings and use quality measures to understand individual and unit performance.
Minimize risk of harm to patients and providers through both system effectiveness and individual performance.
Utilize and discuss policy, procedures, and guidelines to support practice.
Communicate observations or concerns related to unsafe situations that pose a risk to patients, families, or the health care team.
Use information and technology to communicate, manage knowledge, mitigate error, and support decision-making.
Recognize and apply information and technology of patient and unit outcomes to facilitate communication, clinical decision-making, error prevention, and care coordination.
Navigate and document in the EMR to support patient care.
Act as agents of change within the organization, involved in committees, professional development, and support organizational goals, as well as, active participants in the community.
Support organizational goals, advance the nursing profession, and enhance professional development by extending influence to professional and community groups.
Work within scope of practice and delegate according to Nurse Practice Act.
Participate in shared governance activities.
Seek opportunities to participate in professional development activities.