Wound Care Nurse (RN)

Responsibilities

• Communicates and collaborates closely with the Director of Nursing, physicians, Unit Managers, and other members of the interdisciplinary team to provide consistent quality care to patients and residents with wounds.
• Works closely with the Director of Staff Development, Infection Prevention and Control Officer as well as the Quality Improvement team to ensure that all nursing staff is educated in the principles of wound prevention and treatment.
• Implements treatment modalities as assigned.
• Affirms the treatment plan for patients and residents as appropriate and administers treatments.
• Implements and evaluates the plan of care reflecting appropriate nursing and medical diagnosis, goal development, outcome, criteria and target dates.
• Keeps patient and resident plans of care updated reflecting changes in condition and responses to treatment or education.
• Appropriately documents on patients and residents receiving treatments, reviewing previous documentation.
• Completes initial and Weekly skin Impairment forms.
• Participates as an active member of the Interdisciplinary team, including the Wound Care Team for Weekly Wound Rounds and is part of the Wound Committee; completes the weekly wound report.

Qualifications

• Current, active license as a Registered Nurse in Pennsylvania
• BLS Certification
• Wound Care Certification
• Three years of experience providing wound care to patients and residents in long-term care setting