Nurse Clinician Pediatric SkinWound Stead Family Children's Hospital (100)

• Model excellence in clinical expertise related to skin and wound care
• Mentor staff and providers and serve as a clinical resource or consultant for staff faculty patients/families home health agencies and outlying hospitals in relation to skin wound and ostomy management/standards for the neonatal and pediatric patient population.
• Effectively collaborate with the interprofessional health care team to meet patient skin care need in development and review of standards and in planning implementing and evaluating patient care for patients as it relates to skin and wound care.
• Develop staff nurse experts related to skin wound and ostomy care and pressure injury prevention at the unit level.
• Assist in the coordination of discharge planning and patient education related to wound ostomy and skin care.
• Support clinical problem solving lead design and implementation of evidence-based quality improvement initiatives to improve skin wound and ostomy care for the pediatric patient and reduce patient harm through reduction in hospital-acquired pressure injuries.
• Serves as a liaison between Department of Nursing and CWS wound and skin care-related issues and represents CWS on appropriately related committees.
• Provide staff orientation education and in-services and assists with competency review for current and new staff
• Participate in decision-making process for financial management and cost containment strategies.
• Assume responsibility for review of new skin wound and ostomy care products; works with others to bring products to UICH for evaluation
• Stay current and knowledgeable about neonatal and pediatric skin integrity professional standards of practice. Reviews related literature on an ongoing basis and makes recommendations for practice changes based on research and identified issues.
• Submit reports and assists with divisional quality management projects and data collection. Utilizes data to identify performance improvement opportunities and successes.
• Education to referring community hospitals home care vendors and nursing staff upon request
• Participation in skin/wound/ostomy related professional organization at some level.

Required Qualifications:

• A Baccalaureate degree in Nursing
• Current license to practice nursing in Iowa

• Minimum of 1 year recent pediatric nursing experience

• Evidence of strong clinical problem solving and critical thinking skills
• Previous involvement with patient and staff education
• Demonstrated commitment to professional responsibilities and development including reliable work attendance and commitment to professional growth
• Proficiency in computer applications including Microsoft Excel Word and PowerPoint

Desired Qualifications:

• Certification in pediatrics and/or specialty
• PRP (Department of Nursing Professional Recognition Program)
• Demonstrated expertise with pediatric or neonatal skin and wound care and injury prevention
• Demonstrated experience with quality improvement initiatives/evidence-based practice

• Strong leadership skills evidenced by examples highlighting the candidates ability to identify and initiate change reliability commitment to teamwork and the ability to be self-directed.

Please attach a resume and cover letter as part of the application process. Job openings are posted for a minimum of 14 calendar days. This job may be removed from posting and filled any time after the minimum posting period has ended. For questions or additional information please contact Megan Garton at

Successful candidates will be required to self-disclose any conviction history and will be subject to a criminal background position is not eligible for University sponsorship for employment authorization.

References:

• Five professional references will be requested and required at a later step in the recruitment process.