RN Wound Care - Whittier Rehabilitation Hospital Bradford

Wound Care Specialist (RN) - Certified

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, Massachusetts.

Job Description

• 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
• Recognizes 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 with 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

Requirements

• 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

Benefits

• Paid vacation, sick leave, and holidays
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Long and short-term disability
• Accident, hospital, life, and critical illness policies
• 401k, H.S.A., flexible spending