Wound Care Nurse
Company: Sandgate Gardens Rehab & Nursing
Location: Fort Pierce
Posted on: January 16, 2023
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Job Description:
Wound Care NurseDaily Pay Option Available! -Job
Description:OVERVIEW: Provides care that will quickly and safely
heal various types of wounds, including surgical openings, ulcers,
bed sores, feeding tube sites, and abscesses. The wound care nurse
will access the wounds, create and implement treatment plans,
monitor infection and signs of various infections, and clean
wounds. - -RESPONSIBILITIES:--- Maintain a Comprehensive care plan
for skin impairments- updating as needed to include any change in
treatment, improvement and/or decline--- Weekly wound rounds with
wound consultant--- Weekly wound measurements documented--- Review
investigation for all new skin opening related to pressure---
Monitoring vascular/arterial/surgical wounds and document
appropriately -treatment, comprehensive care plan, coordinating
follow-up when indicated & maintain weekly measurements--- Educate
and counsel patients and their families on wound care processes and
issues--- Demonstrate wound care procedures to other care givers---
Attend morning report, identify any new opening and document
accordingly--- Supervising the Rehab CNA--- Work with rehab to
evaluate residents who present with a decline --- Attend CMI
meeting when appropriate--- Correspond with rehab to determine
residents need for positioning devices--- Maintain facility wound
tracking report--- Monitor residents with devices to ensure skin
maintenance--- Maintain a list of all residents with devices
including but not limited to splints or braces. --- Ensure devices
are identified on plan of care and worn appropriately via audit
tool/rounds--- Attend weight meeting, ensure appropriate
interventions to maintain skin integrity--- Provide in-service to
floor nurses to ensure awareness related to skin integrity
maintenance, documentation and care --- Maintain skin care
policy--- Assist in the Quality Assurance and Performance
Improvement (QAPI) processQUALIFICATIONS:EDUCATION / EXPERIENCE:---
BSN or equivalent--- Must be a graduate of an RN nursing program
--- Current registration and license to practice as a Registered
Nurse in the state employed in--- Peripheral IV certification---
Two years of clinical nursing experience --- One-year experience in
a management position preferred--- One-year experience in
geriatrics and subacute population--- CPR/BLS certified--- The
ability to read, write, speak and understand the English language
required, knowledge of other language helpfulSUPERVISORY
-RESPONSIBILITIES: --- This position has no supervisory duties.
-WORK ENVIRONMENT: --- This job operates in a health care setting.
This role requires regular walking to various locations around the
care center. --- Incumbent may be exposed to virus, disease and
infection from patients and specimens in working environment. ---
Incumbent may be required to work extended periods of time at a
video display terminal. Incumbent may experience traumatic
situations, including psychiatric, and deceased patients. --- Works
beyond normal working hours and on weekends and holidays when
necessary--- Must be able to stay or return to facility during
emergency conditionsPHYSICAL -REQUIREMENTS: --- The physical
demands described here are representative of those that must be met
by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of
this job. --- While performing the duties of this job, the employee
is regularly required to talk and hear. Specific vision abilities
required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color
vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust
focus--- This position is very active and requires standing,
walking, bending, kneeling, stooping, crouching, crawling and
climbing all day. --- The employee must frequently lift or move
objects and patients weighing over 50 pounds.TRAVEL: --- No travel
is expected for this positionLocation:FT PIERCE, FL
Keywords: Sandgate Gardens Rehab & Nursing, Fort Pierce , Wound Care Nurse, Healthcare , Fort Pierce, Florida
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