Wound Care Nurse (RN)
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Posted on:
09-11-2025
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1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Overview
Hospital Name: CoxHealth RehabilitationHospital
Partnership with Select Medical
Position: Wound Care Registered Nurse
Location: Ozark Missouri
Schedule: Full-time
Be part of something newthis position supports our brand-new IRH hospital opening in January 2026!
A partnership between CoxHealth and Select Medical our 63-bed medical rehabilitation hospital serves patients in Southwest Missouri. 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 well-being:
- Start Strong:Extensive and thorough orientation program to ensure a smooth transition into our setting.
- Advance Your Career:Tuition reimbursement and continuing education opportunities
- Elevate Your Skills:Clinical ladder program.
- Ease the Burden:Student debt benefit program
- Recharge & Refresh: Generous PTO and Paid Sick Time for full-time team members to maintain a healthy work-life balance
- Your Health Matters: Comprehensive medical/RX health vision employee assistance program (EAP) and dental plan offerings for full-time team members
- Invest in Your Future:Company-matching 401(k) retirement plan as well as life and disability protection for full-time team members
- Your Impact Matters:Join a team of over 44000 committed to providing exceptional patient care
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 evidence-based 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
Key Skills
- EMR Systems
- Hospital Experience
- Acute Care
- ICU Experience
- Dermal Fillers
- Experience Administering Injections
- Home Care
- Nursing
- Botox Experience
- Critical Care Experience
- Medication Administration
- Tube Feeding
About Company
Select Medical is one of the largest providers of critical illness recovery hospitals, inpatient rehabilitation hospitals, outpatient rehabilitation centers, and occupational health clinics in the United States. Guided by our mission to provide an exceptional patient care experience t ... View more
