Wound Care Nurse (RN)

About the role

The inpatient rehabilitation hospital is dedicated to providing exceptional and compassionate care to individuals with various medical conditions such as brain injuries, spinal cord injuries, neurological disorders, orthopedic issues, amputations, and multiple traumas.

Responsibilities

• Participate in an extensive and thorough orientation program to ensure a smooth transition into the setting.
• Advance your career through tuition reimbursement and continuing education opportunities.
• Elevate your skills through a clinical ladder program.
• Enjoy a student debt benefit program to ease the burden.
• Take advantage of generous paid time off and sick leave to maintain a healthy work-life balance.
• Benefit from comprehensive medical, RX, health, vision, employee assistance program (EAP), and dental plans for full-time team members.
• Enjoy a company-matching 401(k) retirement plan and life and disability protection for full-time team members.
• Join a team of over 44,000 dedicated to providing exceptional patient care.
• Establish a leadership role in the wound care program, collaborating with Select Medical wound care experts.
• Develop and deploy evidence-based clinical protocols and algorithms to support the best clinical outcomes for wound management.
• Establish competencies for clinicians regarding wound care.
• Collaborate with Medical leadership on wound care initiatives, research questions, and outcome measures to support program innovation and excellence.
• Develop educational modules for wound care to be used for internal and external education, including teaching tools for patients and families.
• Analyze patterns of wounds across programs and hospitals, and identify targeted PI activities to improve wound outcomes and mitigate pressure sore development.
• Establish 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.
• Coordinate competency evaluation and testing for professional staff in collaboration with clinical departments.
• Work in collaboration with the Education department to assure coordination of all educational initiatives and activities to support the overall objectives and goals of the department and the organization.
• Evaluate the effectiveness of nursing and other clinical education programs.
• Maintain the database to track staff education, competency and credentials and utilize the database to evaluate and plan for future educational activities and programs.
• Collaborate with other members of the Education Department on joint educational initiatives.
• Perform other duties as requested.

Requirements

• Valid State RN License required
• Previous hospital nursing experience required
• Certified BLS required
• Excellent presentation and organizational skills required

Qualifications

• BSN preferred
• BCC, CWCN, CWOCN or CWS preferred

Skills

• Leadership in wound care
• Development and deployment of clinical protocols
• Competency establishment and evaluation
• Collaboration with medical leadership
• Education module development
• Pattern analysis and outcome improvement
• Coordination of educational initiatives

Benefits

• Comprehensive medical/RX, health, vision, employee assistance program (EAP), and dental plans
• Company-matching 401(k) retirement plan
• Life and disability protection

Pay

$39-$57/hour based on years of experience

Schedule

Full-time M-F 8 hour days