Wound Program Specialist (Ostomy, WOCN, RN, Registered Nurse) - HomeCare

Hartford Healthcare•East Hartford, CT

1d•Onsite

About The Position

Hartford HealthCare offers exciting opportunities for career development and growth within Connecticut's most comprehensive healthcare network. The organization is on the cutting edge, bringing new technologies, breakthrough treatments, and community education to countless individuals. They provide a competitive benefits program designed to ensure work/life balance, emphasizing that every moment matters. As a Wound Program Specialist, this role is integral to the person-centered care model. The specialist will be responsible for developing and coordinating agency-wide programs focused on the prevention and management of skin breakdown. This includes providing expert consultation and hands-on care for patients with acute or chronic wounds, establishing and coordinating multi-disciplinary management plans, and overseeing care for patient populations by identifying trends and developing/refining standardized prevention and treatment protocols based on outcomes. The role also involves developing and implementing educational programs for patients, staff, and other healthcare providers, coordinating quality improvement initiatives to optimize skin and wound outcomes, and advocating for patients with skin and wound care needs.

Requirements

Bachelor’s Degree in nursing required
WOCN certification required
Minimum of two years nursing experience in clinical specialty area required
RN required
Obtain Wound/Ostomy certification within 6 months of hire required
Strong written and verbal communication skills
Ability to effectively communicate at all levels within the organization and share knowledge, ideas and information
Demonstrated success in management, planning and leadership ability for meeting patient outcomes
Able to understand problem situations, solve problems and independently assess a wide variety of tasks in order to effectively take action to identify solutions to benefit the client/agency
Knowledge of relevant industry standards for wound care treatments
Ability to balance financial, quality, people and customer expectation appropriate to business situation
Intermediate to advanced MS Outlook, Word, Excel and PowerPoint, and Microsoft Project

Nice To Haves

MSN preferred
Minimum two years in homecare preferred

Responsibilities

Develop/coordinate agency wide programs for prevention and management of skin breakdown
Provide expert consultation and/or hands-on care for individual patients with acute or chronic wounds
Establish/coordinate multi-disciplinary, comprehensive management plans
Coordinate care for populations of patients, identifying trends, and developing standardized prevention and treatment protocols and refining protocols based on outcomes
Develop and implement educational programs for patients, staff and other health care providers
Coordinate quality improvement initiatives to optimize skin and wound outcomes
Advocate for the patient with skin and wound care needs
Manage regional wound care program metrics ensuring consistent delivery of quality care and communications
Collaborate and explore opportunities for cost effectiveness for wound treatments in relationship to patient needs
Review Quality reporting data for deficiencies, areas for improvement, barriers to safety
Seek consultation with other regional WOCN staff to identify and plan interventions designed to solve complex problems involving client care
Develop an interdisciplinary approach to client care between Wound program, HHCAH clinical staff and community partners
Act as consultant to help coordinate all client care services with community partners and agencies as required for the patient to achieve outcomes
Inform the physician/wound clinics of changes in client needs, wounds that require change to the plan of care for wound care treatments and disease management
Follow trends in specialty area of wounds for home care industry; make recommendations of treatment options for incorporation into the program
Participate in reviewing regional wound program performance metrics to ensure program is achieving desired clinical and operational performance measures with Regional Director and Manger of Specialty Services
Participate in training, coaching of staff and onboarding to the Wound program
Participate and facilitate professional development needs and competency for wound program
Actively participate in the performance improvement process known as H3W
Participate in clinical education area to provide programs aimed to improve clinical competencies of direct service staff
Research new information related to wound specialty and communicates to team
Perform other duties as assigned