Description
At Bon Secours Mercy Health, we are dedicated to continually improving health care quality, safety and cost effectiveness. Our hospitals, care sites and clinicians are recognized for clinical and operational excellence.
**Summary of Primary Function/General Purpose of Position**
The Inpatient Wound Care Registered Nurse (RN) conducts initial and ongoing patient assessment, analyzes assessment data, creates a plan of care, implements treatment, and evaluates treatment effectiveness. They administer medications in a safe manner consistent with the State of Practice and Bon Secours Mercy Health policies and procedures and serve as point of contact for patients' care coordination throughout hospital departments.
**Essential Job Functions**
- Initiates a nursing assessment of patient's condition upon admission or receipt of consultation; identifies the patient's present and potential problems from the assessment
- Recognizes and assesses initial alterations in the patient's body systems and verbalizes this to other members of the health care team
- Assesses, stages, and measures wounds accurately and in accordance with policy.
- Assesses and interprets reports communicating findings with the assigned physician.
- 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; collaborates with physician to develop a plan of care based on assessment data.
- Photographs wounds according to policy and procedure.
- Assesses compliance to the clinical pathway and is instrumental in bringing missing components to the attention of the physician or health care team.
- Identifies patient care situations that require intervention, implements nursing actions, and evaluates responses.
- Identifies patient/family education and discharge needs and implements a teaching plan of care.
- Accurately completes all admission nursing chart forms and documents a plan of care for all assigned patients; determines patients' health status and incorporates it into the plan of care.
- Prioritizes problems according to impact on health status.
- Formulates desired outcomes specific to patient's problems, certain time frame, and protocols; ensures desired outcomes are mutually agreed upon by the patient, family (when appropriate) and the nurse.
- Identifies needs for patient from admission to discharge.
- Coordinates activities with other disciplines to ensure quality of care.
- BSMH nurses are expected to practice and deliver care in accordance with the core concepts and intention of the BSMH Nursing Professional Practice Model.
This document is not an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, skills, duties, requirements, or working conditions associated with the job. Employees may be required to perform other job-related duties as required by their supervisor, subject to reasonable accommodation.
**Licensing/Certification**
Current RN License in the state in which they are working or covered by compact (required)
BLS Basic Life Support (preferred upon hire, must obtain from approved source prior to direct patient care)
Wound Care Certification (WOCN Wound, Ostomy and Continence Nursing or WCC Wound Care Certification) (required within three years of hire)
**Education**
Bachelors of Science Nursing (preferred)
**Work Experience**
Recent RN experience in acute care and wound care (required)
2 years wound care experience (preferred)
**Training**
EPIC Electronic Health Record (EHR) (preferred)
**Skills**
- Assigns patient care according to the nursing skill, knowledge, and scope of practice of staff.
- Orients, facilitates learning experience, and provides education (based upon quality improvement indicators, outcomes, and implementation) to nursing staff and others.
- Possesses clinical knowledge, skills, and competency to provide evidence-based patient care in accordance with the current standards of practice, policy and procedure, and BSMH mission.
- Performs comprehensive assessment of patient's clinical condition and psychosocial needs of the patient and their supportive resources.
- Safely and efficiently develops, implements, and prioritizes plan of care.
- Application of the nursing process in patient care delivery.
- Assesses patient's physical and emotional responses to treatment to evaluate effectiveness of intervention and patient outcomes; revises plan of care accordingly.
- Assists patient and family in coping with patient's illness.
- Collaborates with others in the delivery of coordinated patient care.
- Strong interpersonal and verbal/written communication skills.
- Applies cultural diversity and inclusion principles when caring for patients and their support resources.
- Recognizes own limitations and seeks assistance and acquires information to perform safely.
- Advances personal and professional growth through participation in educational programs, current literature, in-services, and workshops.
- Exhibits professionalism through accountability for own and delegated actions.
- Integrates cost-effective measures into practice and models effective stewardship of available resources.
- Practices self-care and cultivates resilience in conflict and difficult circumstances.
- Protects the safety and privacy of all persons.
- Understanding and utilization of office and clinical technologies.
- Ability to communicate with patients in a manner they can understand considering their personal preferences.
- Compassionate, relationship-based approach to help find meaning in illness, suffering, pain, and existence.
- Remains calm, adaptive, and collective during an emergency.
- Applies knowledge and skills associate with advanced wound care to include, but not limited to, negative pressure therapy, compression therapy, hyperbaric oxygen therapy, the utilization of skin substitutes and total contact casting.
**Working Conditions**
Periods of high stress and fluctuating workloads may occur
May be exposed to physical altercations and verbal abuse
May be required to use physical restraints
May be exposed to hazardous substances or body fluids*
May be exposed to human blood and other potentially infectious materials*
May have periods of constant interruptions
General office environment
-* Individuals in this position are required to exercise universal precautions, use personal protective equipment and devices, and learn the policies concerning infection control.-
**Patient Population**
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