WOUND CARE NURSE

IMMEDIATE HIRE!!!

WOUND CARE NURSES NEEDED: Monday - Friday 8hrs/day and Weekends 8 hours/day

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Maintain a Comprehensive care plan for skin impairments- updating as needed to include any change in treatment, improvement and/or decline
• Weekly wound rounds with wound consultant
• Weekly wound measurements documented
• Review investigation for all new skin opening related to pressure
• Monitoring vascular/arterial/surgical wounds and document appropriately -treatment, comprehensive care plan, coordinating follow-up when indicated & maintain weekly measurements
• Educate and counsel patients and their families on wound care processes and issues
• Demonstrate wound care procedures to other care givers
• Attend morning report, identify any new opening and document accordingly
• Supervising the Rehab CNA
• Work with rehab to evaluate residents who present with a decline
• Attend CMI meeting when appropriate
• Correspond with rehab to determine residents need for positioning devices
• Maintain facility wound tracking report
• Monitor residents with devices to ensure skin maintenance
• Maintain a list of all residents with devices including but not limited to splints or braces.
• Ensure devices are identified on plan of care and worn appropriately via audit tool/rounds
• Attend weight meeting, ensure appropriate interventions to maintain skin integrity
• Provide in-service to floor nurses to ensure awareness related to skin integrity maintenance, documentation and care
• Maintain skin care policy

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Current Registered Nurse in Florida
• Peripheral IV certification
• 2 years of clinical nursing experience
• 1 year experience in a management position preferred
• 1 year experience in geriatrics and subacute population
• CPR/BLS certified