PT Wound Care Nurse Practitioner

About the Role

CareMed Health Solutions is a facility-based team of medical providers delivering medical services to patients in long-term care facilities. As a Wound Care Nurse Practitioner, you will provide wound care services to residents, impacting their lives and well-being positively while collaborating with an interdisciplinary care team.

Responsibilities

• Provide wound care services for long-term care patients residing in skilled nursing facilities.
• Prescribe appropriate medications, including controlled substances in accordance with Ohio law.
• Order, review, and/or follow up with treatments and diagnostic testing.
• Communicate regularly with nursing home staff regarding changes in patient condition and care plans.
• Collaborate with the primary care physician.

Requirements

• Current, unrestricted Nurse Practitioner license in the state of Ohio.
• Board Certification.
• DEA licensure (optional).
• Clinical background in adult, family, or geriatric specialties.
• Experience in wound care, including chronic, debilitating, stalled, or infected wounds.
• Comfort diagnosing and treating diabetic, arterial, venous, and mixed etiology wounds or Kennedy Ulcers.
• Ability to stage pressure injuries according to the NPIAP.
• Familiarity with wound care best practices and advanced wound care products (e.g., collagens, alginates, foams, silvers).
• Experience with wound vacs and other durable medical equipment (DME), such as pressure-relieving/reducing devices.
• Strong preference for wound certification or willingness to obtain certification.
• Experience working in a long-term care setting.
• Ability to work with an EMR.
• Ability to work within an interdisciplinary care team to coordinate patient care.

Benefits

• 401(k) with matching.
• Continuing education credits.
• Recertification reimbursement.
• Dental insurance.
• Health insurance.
• Paid time off.
• Vision insurance.
• Malpractice insurance coverage (available for part-time or full-time positions).