Wound Care Nurse Job Description
Wound care nurse
provides M Health Fairview system leadership to include setting standards for wound care clinical practice, establishment and assuring adherence to wound care clinical protocols and screening and selecting wound care providers.
Wound Care Nurse Duties & Responsibilities
To write an effective wound care nurse job description, begin by listing detailed duties, responsibilities and expectations. We have included wound care nurse job description templates that you can modify and use.
Sample responsibilities for this position include:
Working collaboratively with the Healthcare team to improve skin, wound and ostomy health throughout the organization
Providing wound and ostomy care treatments
Oversee the coordination for outpatient wound care
Serve as a resource for inpatient wound care and skin issues
Develop Wound Program
Maintain Wound List
Facilitate Wound Consults
Round with wound physician twice a week
Resource to staff for wound interventions
Assist with Audit Admissions and Wound care documentation
Wound Care Nurse Qualifications
Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.
Licensing or Certifications for Wound Care Nurse
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: CPR, BCLS, BLS, WOCN, WCC, ACLS, CWOCN, CWON
Education for Wound Care Nurse
Typically a job would require a certain level of education.
Employers hiring for the wound care nurse job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Master's Degree in Nursing, Education, Graduate, Science, School of Nursing, Nursing Education, Associates, Department of Education, Patient Care, Healthcare
Skills for Wound Care Nurse
Desired skills for wound care nurse include:
Continence care specialty in accordance with professional standards of practice
Ostomy
Wound
Variety of wound care techniques and the ability to perform procedures for all wound care types
Nursing techniques and their relation to medical and surgical practices
Appropriate local
Federal and other health care regulations and legal regulations and requirements of specialty
State
Occurrence reporting system
PCC
Desired experience for wound care nurse includes:
Guide clinical practice
Identify educational needs
Participate in development and revision of standards of care
Conduct initial and ongoing age-specific assessments in designated time frames
Evaluate effectiveness of plan/of care and modifies, as appropriate
Must have a minimum of two (2) years of nursing experience
Wound Care Nurse Examples
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Wound Care Nurse Job Description
Job Description Example
Our company is looking for a wound care nurse. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for wound care nurse
- Collaborates with other health care providers, Wound Care Center Physicians, Program
- Responsible for wound care
- Maintains ongoing follow-up evaluation for appropriate ostomy and/or skin care patients with needs after discharge from the hospital to provide for continuity of care
- Provides a safe environment for patients, visitors and staff and complies
- Round Weekly on all wounds in hospital
- Patient and Staff education
- Assist with completing Admissions on Daily basis
- Makes home visits to provide clinical support and assists nursing staff in patient assessment, identification of diagnosis, and development of a comprehensive nursing care plan
- Manages a client caseload as needed
- Provides consultation to staff identifying and planning interventions designed to solve complex problems involving client care
Qualifications for wound care nurse
- Nutrition, alteration in nutrition, less than body requirements
- Hazards of immobility, impaired physical mobility
- Grieving process
- Self-care deficit
- Activity intolerance
- Nurse Practitioner Board Certification
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Our growing company is looking to fill the role of wound care nurse. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for wound care nurse
- Demonstrates knowledge and understanding of common wound etiologies and wound standard of care
- Maintains responsibility for Wound Healing Institute on 24/7 basis, unless otherwise approved
- Works with the Wound Care Institute Director to facilitate and maintain lines of communication with the various ancillary departments utilized by the department
- Directs, and evaluates nursing care provided to patients in the Wound Care Healing Institute
- Serve as mentor and advisor to facilitate professional growth for our Wound Healing Institute employees
- Works under the direction of the Wound Institute Director and Medical Director to oversee, manage, train, and assist nurses and other staff within the department
- Provides the Wound Healing Institute Director with required reports of the departmental status as directed
- Provides direct care for patients in an ambulatory setting through comprehensive assessments, and assessment of diagnostic data and wound evaluations
- Performs ordered treatments including but not limited to vital signs, blood sugars, vascular assessments and ABIs, wound assessments, phlebotomy, medication administration, and specimen collection and handling
- Prepares and implements a plan of care for the wound patient collaborating with the physician and other health team members
Qualifications for wound care nurse
- The ability to implement and evaluate the effectiveness of interventions in the plan of care and to recognize the need to reassess- required
- Valid cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) card
- CA RN license and BLS required
- Keen attention to detail and effective organizational skills
- Autonomous thinker who also enjoys working in a team setting
- Comfortable working in a prepper, case manager, wrapper staffing model
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Our growing company is looking for a wound care nurse. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for wound care nurse
- Demonstrates competent utilization of interview, examination and observation techniques in obtaining patient history and wound history information
- Wound care expert
- Organize and implement wound care on inpatient and outpatient clinics
- Initiates and coordinates treatment plans for wound care patients
- The Case manager/Registered Nurse is accountable for the oversight of the clinical practice, outcomes and success of the Wound Care Center
- Coordinate and lead weekly wound team rounds and processes, including rounds, measurements, interdisciplinary care plan review, treatment recommendations, physician orders, and required documentation
- Educate newly hired nursing staff on Skin Practice Guide requirements and Skin Resource Library including wound assessments, preventive interventions, care planning, treatment selection options, documentation requirements and education resources available
- Evaluate availability of needed supplies for wound care and coordinate ordering with central supply
- Monitor changes in state and federal regulations and current industry-standard practices
- ACLS, PALS, NRP as defined by unit competencies (preferred)
Qualifications for wound care nurse
- Current registered nurse (RN) license in the State of Oregon
- Responsible for critical thinking and collaborative input on decisions
- Minimum 2 years experience in wound care
- American Heart Association (AHA) approved Basic Life Support (BLS) Certification required and must maintain thought employment
- Previous experience with a clinical Hyperbaric Program preferred
- Bachelor's in Nursing (BSN) Required, Master's degree highly preferred
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Our growing company is looking for a wound care nurse. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for wound care nurse
- The Wound Management Coordinator is responsible for the day to day coordination and oversight of all aspects of the Wound Management Program
- Keeps current with industry trends through ongoing specialized education in the area of skin and wound managemen
- Collaborates with an interdisciplinary team in the development and implementation of a comprehensive wound care program and in the care planning and treatment of individual veterans
- Supervision follows all accepted state and federal guidelines for the respective discipline
- Primary function- Performs weekly skin condition and wound rounds with members of the interdisciplinary team
- Is the designated first-line supervisory authority
- Is responsible for planning the work to be accomplished by subordinates, setting priorities and preparing schedules for completion of work
- Assigns work to subordinates based on priorities, selective consideration of the difficulty and the requirements of the assignments, and the capabilities of subordinates
- Makes recommendations for appointments, advancements or reassignments of subordinates
- Gives advice, counsel, or instruction to subordinate personnel on work and administrative matters
Qualifications for wound care nurse
- One year practice as CWCN RN required
- Minimum of 2 years nursing experience in the acute care setting preferred
- Bachelor of Science in Nursing required, Master's preferred
- Certified Wound Care Nurse (WOCN) preferred
- Previous committee leadership is preferred
- National Wound Certificatoin is preferred
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Our company is growing rapidly and is searching for experienced candidates for the position of wound care nurse. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for wound care nurse
- As applicable, with a physician’s order, provides appropriate debridement of devitalized tissue (e.g., conservative sharp debridement, silver nitrate [AgNO3] cauterization of nonproliferative wound edges, hypergranulation tissue, or to control minor bleeding)
- Provides pre- and postoperative education to patients who are undergoing ostomy surgery (and their families), with consideration of the need for physical and psychological adaptation
- Participates in policy review and development as it relates to wound, skin care and ostomies
- Reports to the Chief-Outpatient, Patient Care Service
- Demonstrates competence in assessing patient and family learning needs and developing a plan to meet all areas of learning needs
- Diagnosing and treating acute and chronic health care problems
- Perform specialized procedures, such as removal of devitalized tissue, removal of sutures, simple incision and drainage
- Identify and maintain effective methods to gather pressure ulcer and skin alteration related information
- Collect, analyze and provide pressure ulcer information to nursing staff and other healthcare practitioners
- Investigate and identify center practices and risk minimizing measures, including accurate completion of Braden risk scales on admission, implementation of preventive interventions
Qualifications for wound care nurse
- Mater of Science in Nursing/Accredited Physician Assistant Program
- Minimum of 2 years as a NP/PA preferred
- Licensed to practice in the Comonwealth of Virginia
- Excellent clinical and interpersonal skills the desire to be part of a team that functions at the highest level
- Patient Care Computerized Documentation System experience preferred
- Minimum of 2 years medical surgical nursing experience