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

About
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
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.
- 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
- 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
- Bradford, England
- English
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