RN Wound Care - Whittier Rehabilitation Hospital Bradford
Whittier Rehabilitation Hospital Bradford - Bradford, MA - Full Time
Whittier Rehabilitation Hospital, Bradford/Haverhill Wound Care Specialist (RN) - Certified Full-Time Days, 40 hours/week Tuesday through Saturday
We are looking for a Certified Wound Care RN to join our nursing team within our beautiful Rehabilitation Hospital conveniently located off of 495 on Ward Hill in Bradford Mass.
Essential Duties: -Acts as a role model for professional practice in wound care (in outpatient wound clinic and inpatient as necessary) -Provides and/or coordinates patient care, including appropriate referrals for required services and necessary equipment to meet the wound care needs of the patient. -Participates in interdisciplinary meetings as appropriate. -Evaluates equipment needs and makes recommendations to the Director of Nursing and Clinical Services appropriately. -Is responsible for equipment management by providing education and monitoring safety. -Collaborates with affiliating agencies to meet the care needs of the wound care patients -Initiates a nursing assessment of patient's condition upon admission to the wound clinic. -Assesses and interprets reports communicating findings with the assigned physician. -Recognize and assesses initial alterations in the patient's body system and verbalizes this to other members of the health care team. -Organizes assessment data for accuracy, completeness and confidentiality -Records assessment data in an orderly fashion and communicates, revises, and verbalizes pertinent information to other health care team members. -Assesses, stages, measures wounds accurately and in accordance to policy. - Photographs wounds according to policy and procedure -Identifies patient care situations that require intervention, implements nursing actions and evaluates responses. -Provides consultation to nursing staff and other health care professionals. -Provides leadership in the development, implementation and evaluation of standards of practice within specialty area. -Collaborates with Director of Nursing, Clinical Services and the Coordinator of PI to identify learning needs of the staff.
Prerequisites: -Must be Wound Care Certified, CWS or CWCN/CWOCN -Current RN Massachusetts License -3-5 years experience in geriatric/adolescent wound care services -BSN preferred
Full Benefit Package including: - Paid Vacation, Sick and Holiday -Medical, Dental, Vision -Long and Short term disability -Accident, Hospital, Life and Critical Illness policies -401k, H.S.A, Flexible Spending