Wound Care Nurse
Sacramento, California
- Eligibility
- RN/LVN/CNASkilled Nursing
Posted Sep 11
What the listing says
Role
- Accepts
- RN/LVN/CNA
Ratio not posted. Ask in the interview.
Pay
- Against the board
- In range for CA staff roles
CA staff postings that state pay run $33/hr to $87/hr, the middle half $42/hr to $69/hr, across 1978 postings.
About this role
As our Registered Nurse (RN) in Skilled Nursing Care, you will help patients and residents receive direct nursing care and ensure nursing activities are supervised effectively, so they can maintain the highest degree of quality care and cost-effectiveness within our facility. Every day, you will utilize technology, procedures, protocols, and standards specific to your assigned unit while also assuming a leadership role over nursing personnel. You will be expected to perform legible, timely, concise, and accurate documentation, communicate clearly using proper medical terminology, and adhere to policies, procedures, and standards in delivering care, medication, and treatments.
You will assist with admissions, discharges, or transfers and identify changes or abnormal signs and symptoms in patients, ensuring prompt follow-up with physicians and responsible parties. To be successful in this role, you must have knowledge of nursing care principles within the RN, LVN, and CNA scope of practice, working knowledge of Title 22, OBRA regulations, and Joint Commission requirements, and the ability to follow instructions, analyze data, coordinate tasks, and manage workload effectively.
Sourced from CommonSpirit Health’s careers page.
Requirements
- Active Registered Nurse (RN) license in the State of California
- Basic Life Support (BLS) certification - American Heart Association
Benefits
- Health/dental/vision
- FSA
- Matching retirement plans
- Paid time off
- Tuition assistance
- Adoption assistance
Place
- City
- Sacramento, California
- Median rent
- $1,779/mo
- Local household income
- $87,321/yr
- Metro price level
- 7% above the national average
rent and tenant-paid utilities · Census ACS 2024
all local households, not nurse pay · Census ACS 2024
Sacramento area index 106.7, where 100 is the national average.
Sacramento is California's farm-to-fork capital where nurses land UC Davis Health roles and live in Midtown's lively grid or College Glen's affordable ranches. The American River Parkway threads through town, Lake Natoma's for kayaks, and Tahoe's two hours east. Cost of living runs about 7% above the national average—far below Bay Area pricing. Summers hit triple digits.
Cost figures from U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis · 2024 metro Regional Price Parities · Census ACS 2024.
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- Can you walk me through differentials?
- What should I expect for shifts, weekly hours, weekend, holiday, call, and rotation?
- What orientation, preceptor time, and ongoing unit support are included?
- How are patient load, floating, and staffing support handled day to day?