Wound Care Nurse (RN)
Wound Care Nurse (RN)
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Job Description
Overview
Select Medical RehabilitationTemple
Now hiring
Fulltime Registered Nurses Wound Care
for our new location!
Temple Texas
Our inpatient rehabilitation hospital is committed to providing exceptional and compassionate care to best address the medical physical emotional and vocational challenges for individuals with brain injuries spinal cord injuries neurological disorders orthopedic issues amputation and multiple traumas.
We support your career growth and personal wellbeing:
- Start Strong:Extensive Registered Nurse (RN) orientation program to ensure a smooth transition into our setting
- Invest in Your Future: 100% companypaid scholarship (BSN) tuition reimbursement and continuing education; company matching 401(k) retirement plan as well as Life and Disability protection
- Elevate Your Skills: Clinical ladder programs and continuing education opportunities.
- Ease the Burden: Student debt benefit program
- Your Impact Matters: Join a team of over 44000 committed to providing exceptional patient care
- Recharge & Refresh:Generous PTO to maintain a healthy worklife balance
- Your Health Matters:Comprehensive medical/Rx vision and dental plan offerings
Responsibilities
- Establishes a leadership role in the wound care program establishing standards of care across the hospitals and programs in collaboration with Select Medical wound care experts.
- Develops and deploys evidencebased clinical protocols and algorithms to support the best clinical outcomes for wound management including development and updating product formulary.
- Establishes competencies for clinicians regarding wound care.
- Collaborates with Medical leadership on wound care initiatives research questions and outcome measures to support program innovation and excellence.
- Develops educational modules for wound care to be used for internal and external education including teaching tools for patients and families.
- Analyzes patterns of wounds across programs and hospitals and identifies targeted PI activities to improve wound outcomes and mitigate pressure sore development.
- Establishes individual programs and courses directed at increasing staff knowledge competency and credentials in support of individual job objectives and the overall goals and mission of the organization.
- Coordinates competency evaluation and testing for professional staff in collaboration with clinical departments.
- Works in collaboration with Education department to assure coordination of all educational initiatives and activities to support the overall objectives and goals of the department and the organization.
- Evaluates the effectiveness of nursing and other clinical education programs.
- Maintains the database to track staff education competency and credentials and utilizes the database to evaluate and plan for future educational activities and programs.
- Works under the direction of the Director of Education on nursing education projects and initiatives related to skin wound and ostomy management.
- Collaborates with other members of the Education Department on joint educational initiatives.
- Performs other duties as requested.
Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications
- Valid State RN License required
- Previous hospital nursing experience required
- Certified BLS required
- Excellent presentation and organizational skills required
Preferred Qualifications
- BSN preferred
- WCC CWCN CWOCN or CWS preferred
Additional Data
Equal Opportunity Employer including Disabled/Veterans
Employment Type
Full-Time
