WOC Registered Nurse

Overview

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Benefits

We provide:

• Comprehensive health benefits that start day 1
• Student Loan Repayment Assistance & Reimbursement Programs
• Family-focused benefits
• Wellness incentives
• Ongoing mentorship, development, leadership programs
• and more!

  Description

  At Emory Healthcare (EHC), wound, ostomy, and continence care is a system-wide clinical priority supported by innovation, research, and expert leadership. We are seeking a Wound Ostomy Registered Nurse (RN) to direct, elevate, and advance wound, pressure injury, and ostomy care across our organization.

  Job Summary

  Directs agency-wide initiatives for pressure ulcer prevention, wound care and ostomy care, to include supporting pressure ulcer prevalence data collection, evidence-based policies, procedures, and protocols, and advisement of appropriate support surfaces, products, and staff decision-making algorithms.

  Primary Duties and Responsibilities

  Clinical Expertise and Leadership

  • Integrates knowledge gained through practice and education to respond intuitively to patient/family needs.
  • Routinely leads efforts to strengthen organizational systems that support patient care.
  • Adept at creative problem-solving, negotiating conflict, and collaborating with others.
  • Demonstrates insight, judgment, and clinically sound risk-taking.
  • Role models expert communication skills to colleagues through example and has achieved clinical expertise and leadership, is viewed as a professional leader within the unit and beyond.
  • Advances and leads evidence-based practices, participates, and leads in unit governance, leads unit projects, and mentors other nurses to achieve in the role of the professional nurse.

  Clinical Practice and Documentation

  • Role models dependable, effective, and efficient care to a patient population using the nursing process.
  • Demonstrates expert assessment skills.
  • Demonstrates foresight regarding the impact of nursing care on patient outcomes based on intuition and experience.
  • Is recognized as an expert clinician and a leader within their area of specialty and assists less experienced nurses concerning patient care.
  • Maintains adherence to documentation standards, provides feedback to staff, and implements test(s) of change.
  • Establishes, promotes, and evaluates standardized plans of care for the unit using evidence-based research within the area of specialty.
  • Collaborates with management and patient/family advisor council to develop standardized teaching materials for patient and family learning needs.
  • Role models and educates others utilizing the Synergy model for patient care.

  Education and Mentorship

  • Identifies, initiates, and collaborates to provide needed educational programs.
  • Demonstrates current evidence-based practice and disseminates information.
  • Questions clinical practice as it relates to research.

  Delegation and Team Leadership

  • Role models delegation skills to colleagues and assists others in effective delegation utilizing the Synergy model of care.
  • Assumes a leadership and resource role with the interdisciplinary team.
  • Considered the expert and is viewed as a formal leader.
  • Fulfills Charge Nurse responsibilities when assigned.
  • Orients staff or students as assigned in absence of designated preceptor.
  • Evaluates the use of resources and cost containment activities.
  • Leads and coordinates team behavior between staff members and actively fosters the development of leadership skills in others.
  • Exhibits desire to hear and understand another's point of view.
  • Role models and educates others utilizing the Synergy model for patient care.

  Therapeutic Relationships and Cultural Sensitivity

  • Intuitively uses self in the therapeutic relationship to enhance care.
  • Respects others' values and suspends judgment.
  • Plans constructive interventions based on the patient's values.
  • Effectively elicits cultural beliefs and values from patients and integrates these into overall patient management.
  • Utilizes patient satisfaction feedback as a factor in designing patient care delivery.
  • Assists colleagues in resolving routine, non-routine or complex issues and facilitates escalation if necessary.
  • Identifies and systematically addresses the needs of long-term or extended stay patients to improve satisfaction.
  • Monitors issues and their resolution.
  • Respects and maintains confidential information.

  Professional Development

  • Must meet all Clinical Nurse I Employee Commitments.
  • Achieves electives and contact hours as defined in the PLAN (clinical lattice) system to maintain position.

  Qualifications

  • Education: Graduate of an accredited prelicensure Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN)
  • Experience: Two years experience as an RN with a minimum of two years of experience in the area of concentration
  • License: Must have a valid, active unencumbered Nursing license approved by the Georgia Licensing Board
  • Certifications: BLS certification ACLS may be required in designated departments Nursing Specialty Certification
  • If completing virtual care activities that may include multi-state practice, an active compact/multistate license (eNLC) is required within 60 days of hire.

  Physical Requirements

  36-75 lbs, 0-33% of the work day (occasionally); 20-35 lbs, 34-66% of the workday; (frequently); 10-20 lbs, 67-100% of the workday (constantly); Lifting 75 lbs max; Carrying of objects up to 35 lbs; Occasional to frequent standing & walking; Occasional sitting; Close eye work (computers, typing, reading, writing); Physical demands may vary depending on assigned work area and work tasks.

  Environmental Factors

  • Blood-borne pathogen exposure
  • Bio-hazardous waste
  • Chemicals/gases/fumes/vapors
  • Communicable diseases
  • Electrical shock
  • Latex
  • Lighting
  • Patient care/handling injuries
  • Radiation
  • Shift work
  • Travel may be required
  • Use of personal protective equipment, including respirators