RN - Wound Care Center

Overview

To provide expertise in the management of wound, ostomy, or skin care in the Wound Center. Additionally, provides consultation to acute care patient care units

Responsibilities

• Actively manages patient care correlating initial assessment, treatment course, and other services.
• Communicates patient care effectively.
• Calls physicians/offices to clarify physician orders.
• Assess data reflective of the patient's status and interprets the appropriate information needed to identify each patient's educational requirements based on their age-specific needs and to provide the care needed.
• Ensures wound/ostomy/skin plan of care is understood by those in the continuum of care also providing patient services, i.e. Home Health, DME Company, and agencies in the continuum of patient care.
• Documents patient's response to interventions.
• Performs a thorough and accurate patient assessment to evaluate the patient's status, level of knowledge, determine readiness for education, plan and implement appropriate teaching strategies and assess the patient's response.
• Considers special patient needs when delivering nursing care.
• Evaluates patient/family cultural needs to promote comfort and compliance to prescribed regimens.
• Evaluates patient/family cognitive skills and adjusts education accordingly.
• Possesses knowledge and skills necessary to obtain adequate lab specimens for testing.
• Performs patient bedside lab testing and associated quality control in compliance with medical provider's orders and hospital lab procedures/policies.

• Provides effective and quality wound care education and documentation to ensure optimal level of care.
• Maintains knowledge of skin care, wound, and ostomy trends, standards, and education.
• Demonstrates knowledge of required nursing care for individual procedures/treatments.
• Provides accurate patient education and discharge instructions.
• Facilitates product evaluation for ostomy and wound/skin care products.
• Works collaboratively with staff nurses.
• Utilizes the nursing process by assessing the learner and teaching situations, formulating a plan for teaching, providing the education directly or by assisting other staff, and evaluating the teaching process.
• Timely documents teaching efforts and outcome

• Provides patient education.
• Documents patient care and any changes in patient's status thoroughly and accurately.
• Documents patient/family education and assessment of patient/family learning.
• Assesses patients/family to desired educational method and includes that delivery method in education.

• Keeps abreast with current methods, resources and industry trends for Professional growth.
• Identifies opportunities to improve patient, family, and staff teaching programs.Continues professional development.
• Demonstrates technical knowledge of equipment and supplies.
• Demonstrates knowledge of tests and procedures.
• Displays and maintains pharmacology knowledge.
• Reads current literature to maintain and develop knowledge base.
• Participates in education of other departmental and organizational personnel, as requested.
• Assists in development of new programs as requested.
• Participates actively to ensure activities are in agreement with regulatory standards, i.e., The Joint Commission, Medicare, Medicaid, OSHA, etc.
• Actively transfers knowledge of any wound care changes to staff.

Qualifications

Certifications: Licensed Registered Professional Nurse (RN) - Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation (IDFPR)Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation (IDFPR)Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation (IDFPR); Basic Life Support (BLS) within 30 days - American Heart Association (AHA)American Heart Association (AHA)American Heart Association (AHA), Education: Associate's Degree: Nursing, Work Experience:

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