Job description
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
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