RN Wound Care - Whittier Rehabilitation Hospital Bradford - #1745280

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Date: 1 day ago
City: Bradford
Contract type: Full time
Work schedule: Full day
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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

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  • Bradford, England

Languages

  • English

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