Wound Care Nurse, Grand Valley Wound Care PRN

Community Hospital•Grand Junction, CO

2d•$40 - $46•Onsite

About The Position

This position focuses on delivering patient and family-centered care using the nursing process, ensuring developmentally appropriate, culturally sensitive, and evidence-based practices. The role involves active anticipation of changes in patient outcomes and unit needs, with care informed by the specific professional practice model. The nurse will communicate and advocate for patient values, preferences, and needs throughout the care plan, evaluation, and assessment of learning needs, utilizing an interdisciplinary approach. Teamwork and collaboration are essential, fostering open communication, mutual respect, and shared decision-making to achieve quality patient care. This includes applying communication practices that minimize risks during care transitions, presenting perspectives with supporting evidence, and collaborating in shared decision-making. The nurse will support the mission, vision, and values of Community Hospital. Evidence-based practice is integrated by identifying key research concepts, participating in structuring the work environment for new evidence integration, and recognizing the need for revisions in policies and procedures. Quality improvement is a key aspect, using data to monitor outcomes and design improvements. Safety is paramount, minimizing risks through system effectiveness and individual performance, and utilizing policies, procedures, and guidelines. Informatics skills are required for communication, knowledge management, error mitigation, and decision-making using information technology and the EMR. Leadership involves being an agent of change, participating in committees, professional development, supporting organizational goals, and advancing the nursing profession through community and professional group involvement. This includes working within the scope of practice, delegating appropriately, participating in shared governance, and seeking professional development opportunities.

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.
Communicate and advocate patient values, preferences and expressed needs as part of implementation of care plan, evaluation of care and assessment of patient/family learning needs to the interdisciplinary continuum using an interdisciplinary approach.
Applies communication practices that minimize risks across transitions of care.
Presents own perspective and supporting evidence in patient care and team discussions.
Collaborates with team members in shared decision-decision-making.
Supports and upholds the mission, vision, and values of Community Hospital.
Identifies key concepts of research and evidence-based practice.
Participates in structuring the work environment to facilitate integration of new evidence into standards of practice.
Recognizes and communicates the need for revision of hospital and departmental policies procedures, practice guidelines, and/or measures for clinical practice evaluation.
Recognizes the standard of care provided by the applicable professional organization and /or association.
Utilizes outcome data at the patient level to make care decisions.
Participates in the quality improvement activities, which may include Root Cause Analyses, Apparent Cause Analyses, Capacity Operation Safety Huddles, Nursing Bed Huddles, & Interdisciplinary Meetings and uses quality measures to understand individual and unit performance.
Utilizes and discusses policy, procedures, and guidelines to support practice.
Communicates observations or concerns related to unsafe situations that pose a risk to patients, families or the health care team.
Recognizes and applies information and technology of patient and unit outcomes to facilitate communication, clinical decision-making, error prevention, and care coordination.
Navigates and documents in the EMR to support patient care.
Works within scope of practice and delegates according to Nurse Practice Act.
Participates in shared governance activities.
Seeks opportunities to participate in professional development activities.