Wound Care Nurse

As a Wound Care Nurse, you will be a pivotal healthcare professional, delivering compassionate, high-quality care that truly impacts our patients' well-being and recovery. Every day, you will leverage your expertise to provide individualized, comprehensive care, making critical assessments, performing skilled procedures, and meticulously implementing patient care plans. You will be expected to collaborate seamlessly within an interdisciplinary team, contributing to a dynamic environment focused on optimal patient outcomes.

To be successful in this role, you will possess keen assessment skills, acute critical thinking, and a patient-first mindset, driven by a profound enthusiasm to help others. Your sense of urgency and dedication to excellence in a fast-paced environment will not only support patient recovery but also fuel your own career advancement. - Performs assessments and delivers treatment plans per physician or non-physician practitioner orders on individuals with wound care needs in an outpatient setting. - Evaluates patient response to treatment and the progress of wound healing, making adjustments and modifications to protocols. - Provides appropriate education to patient, caregiver, family, and staff regarding skin care and wound management. - Discuss patient progress, including discharge needs, with referring physician, provider, or facility as needed to determine appropriate follow-up care. - Maintains current knowledge and competency in skin and wound care through periodic in-servicing, seminars, conferences, literature review and attendance at continuing education opportunities. - Supervises and delegates wound dressings, treatments and testing to wound care tech or other trained personnel, if appropriate.