RN, Wound Care Center

Purpose of Position: Responsible for the coordination of clinical activities of the Wound Care Center.

Description

• Establishes/coordinates multi-disciplinary, comprehensive management plans.
• Utilizes skills in organization, planning, implementing, evaluating and providing care to wound care patients collaborating with panel physicians and other health care providers.
• Provides care to patients specific to assessments according to protocols and procedures, clinical competence in procedural skills, treatments, and patient/caregiver education related to wound care management.
• Provides efficient and effective care with the guidance of the physician during the clinic sessions, attends the clinics where scheduled.
• Manages a number of patients at the same time with high energy and organization.
• Manages the patient with pain.
• Utilizes policies and procedures for Quality Management of wounds using the clinical pathways established.
• Implements patient care utilizing appropriate physical resources in a safe manner.
• Prioritizes patient care based on: department needs, acuity levels and available resources.
• Provides care and advocates for patients incorporating their rights and values.
• Performs laboratory studies and orders imaging exams as required.
• Uses Hospital Information System appropriately and accurately.
• Gives rationale for patient care and clinical decisions based on current scientific literature and principles.
• Performs and communicates as part of the team.
• Manages patients requiring wound care.
• Documents consistently, using accepted guidelines.
• Performs Quality Control duties on equipment.
• Handles daily routines and administrative duties according to department expectations, managing time effectively.
• Performs other work-related duties as assigned or requested.
  
  

Qualifications

• Graduate of an accredited School of Nursing
• Current Registered Nurse (RN) Licensure in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
• Five or more years of clinical nursing experience required with at least two years recent (within the past 5 years) in chronic wound management, as evidenced by: plan of care development based wound assessment and underlying etiology; the ability to perform specific assessments according to protocols and procedures; and clinical competence in the delivery of wound care, treatment, and services.
• Certified Wound Care Nurse (CWCN), Wound Ostomy and Continence Nurse (WOCN) or equivalent wound care certification (as determined by management) required.
• Current BLS Certification
  
  

Schedule Details

80PP (40/32 FLEX Hours Per Week), Rotating Days, 8a-4p, or 8:15a-4:15p, No Weekends & Occasional Holidays

Organization : Falmouth Hospital Association

Primary Location : Massachusetts-Bourne

Department : FHA-Wound Center

Annual/Hourly: Hourly

Hiring Pay Range: 38.36 - 78.11