Wound Care Nurse

Wound Care Nurse

Job Summary and Responsibilities As a Registered Nurse (RN), you will be a pivotal healthcare professional, delivering compassionate, high-quality care that truly impacts our patients' well-being and recovery. Every day, you will leverage your expertise to provide individualized, comprehensive care, making critical assessments, performing skilled procedures, and meticulously implementing patient care plans. You'll collaborate seamlessly within an interdisciplinary team, contributing to a dynamic environment focused on optimal patient outcomes. To be successful in this role, you will possess keen assessment skills, acute critical thinking, and a patient-first mindset, driven by a profound enthusiasm to help others. Your sense of urgency and dedication to excellence in a fast-paced environment will not only support patient recovery but also fuel your own career advancement.

Assessment Performs complete patient assessment. Recognizes significant changes in patient status and seeks appropriate resources. Coordinates or collects physiologic monitoring data: vital signs, monitor results, lab and diagnostic test results. Performs ongoing assessment according to unit policy. Documents assessment in compliance with hospital policy.

Maintaining Plan of Care Initiates the Patient Goal/Problem List or Clinical Path on admission. Develops Plan of Care to support the patient goals and the medical plan of care. Evaluates and documents the patient's response to the plan of care and makes changes as appropriate. Collaborates with multidisciplinary team to coordinate and plan provision of patient care.

Maintaining Patient Treatments Obtains and/or verifies all physician orders for procedures, medications, and therapies. Assures the presence of consent and its documentation for procedures, therapies, and research protocols. Assures the presence of appropriate supplies to perform the ordered procedure or therapy. Performs or assists in procedures and therapies according to policy and procedures. Assesses the patient's needs for medication prior to administration. Assesses patient allergies and medication incompatibilities. Verifies, administers and documents medication according to hospital policy. Evaluates and documents patient's response to procedures, therapies and medications. Monitors the patient care record for accuracy and completeness of data provided by care team members. Coordinates and documents communication between patient, significant others and multidisciplinary team members in order to support the plan of care. Ensures effective and wise use of resources, monitoring for cost containment. Facilitates appropriate length of hospital stay.

Teaching Assesses the patient's and significant other's knowledge base, ability and readiness to learn based on their developmental age. Identifies and utilizes multidisciplinary team members to provide comprehensive education for patients, self and others. Incorporates teaching principles and methods appropriate to knowledge base, ability and readiness to learn and based on developmental age. Demonstrates knowledge in area of teaching and available resources for patient and staff education. Documents patient education in the patient care record. Evaluates the teaching process. Documents staff education per policy.

Leadership Participates in peer review. Provides learning opportunities and contributes to the orientation of team members, PRN personnel and students. Identifies and implements educational opportunities for the staff. Serves as a preceptor and role model for new employees and students. Utilizes conflict resolution to promote a cohesive team. Delegates assignments based on changes in census, staffing, patient, and unit needs. Enforces hospital/department specific policies. Maintains current knowledge of clinical and operational hospital policies and practice updates. Engages in a therapeutic relationship with patients and develops healthy interpersonal relationships among colleagues. Identifies the most important needs to be met each shift within the context of available resources. Demonstrates accountability for their individual nursing practice. Utilizes the mechanisms of the Professional Nursing Shared Governance (PNSG) organization to address nursing matters. Demonstrates responsibility for being informed about the actions/activities of the PNSG. Participates in activities of the PNSG organization.

Unit-Specific Competencies Provides care to patient population utilizing research findings and evidence based practice. Unit required certifications must be obtained within six months of hire. For any unit requiring CPI, it must be obtained within three months of hire. Meets all unit-specific yearly skill requirements within acceptable timeframe.

Job Requirements Required

• Associates Of Science Nursing, upon hire
• Registered Nurse: AR, upon hire and
• Basic Life Support - CPR, within 30 Days

Nursing excellence starts with you. Are you a career fit with our CommonSpirit Health culture? To understand how we are structured, we believe in some core philosophies with the following:

We will be stronger together, achieving excellence in all we do, collaborating across the fields and growing our collective knowledge

We will let humankindness guide us as we treat every person with holistic, personalized care for the body, mind and spirit.

We will advance the science and art of nursing as innovative leaders who demonstrate the power of evidence-based, compassionate care. If you believe in working together with humankindness for all to advance the science and art of nursing - then you have found your career fit with us!

"Our hope is that you will always feel inspired, knowing you truly are the heart and soul of CommonSpirit."

Kathleen D. Sanford, EVP, Chief Nursing Officer

What makes a successful Wound Care Nurse at CHI St Vincent Hot Springs?

• Collaborative
• Compassionate
• Efficient
• Good Listener
• Organized
• Problem-Solver

This is a snapshot of your potential career path highlights the series of job positions that help you progress towards your goals and objectives. Ultimately, your career path depends on your career values and personal goals.

While you're busy impacting the healthcare industry, we'll take care of you with benefits that may include health/dental/vision, FSA, matching retirement plans, paid time off, tuition assistance, adoption assistance, and more!

At CommonSpirit Health, we believe investing in our employees lets them know they truly matter. Your Total Rewards package includes compensation, benefits, retirement, wellness, leave, and other programs.

Depending on the position offered, CommonSpirit Health offers a generous benefit package, including but not limited to medical, prescription drug, dental, vision plans, life insurance, paid time off (full-time benefit eligible employees may receive a minimum of 14 paid time off days, including holidays annually), tuition reimbursement, retirement plan benefit(s) including, but not limited to, 401(k), 403(b), and other defined benefits offerings, as may be amended from time to time.

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