Select Specialty Hospital is a critical illness recovery hospital committed to providing world-class inpatient post-ICU services to chronic, critically ill patients who require extended healing and recovery.
Posted Sep 24 · 1 year of experience
Shift and hours
Monday - Friday 8:00am - 4:30pm Schedule: Full Time - Monday- Friday 8:00am - 4:30pm5 shifts a week
100% company-paid scholarship (BSN), tuition reimbursement, and continuing education
Loan repayment
Student debt benefit program
Benefits
BenefitsExtensive RN orientation programStart Strong : Extensive Registered Nurse (RN) orientation program to ensure a smooth transition into our setting
Benefits100% company-paid BSN scholarship, tuition reimbursement, and continuing educationInvest in Your Future : 100% company-paid scholarship (BSN), tuition reimbursement, and continuing education
BenefitsClinical ladder programs and certifications such as PCCN and CCRNElevate Your Skills : Clinical ladder programs and certifications such as PCCN and CCRN
BenefitsStudent debt benefit programEase the Burden : Student debt benefit program
BenefitsComprehensive benefits package including generous PTOComprehensive benefits package including generous PTO and 401(K) with company match
implement and monitor skin preservation strategiesPreserving the integrity of the skin by implementing and monitoring skin preservation strategies.
Day to day
ensure all wound and skin care protocols are approved by medical staffEnsuring all wound and skin care protocols are approved by the medical staff.
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organize weekly multidisciplinary wound and skin rounds for high-risk patients and patients with current pressure ulcers or significant woundsOrganizing multidisciplinary wound and skin rounds on a weekly basis for high risk patients and patients with current pressure ulcers and other significant wounds.
Day to day
provide hands-on wound care for difficult and non-healing woundsProviding hands-on wound care for all difficult and non-healing wounds.
Day to day
serve as a resource to hospital staff on wound and skin care issuesServing as a resource to all hospital staff on all issues related to wound and skin care.
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ensure all regulatory requirements are metEnsuring all regulatory requirements are met
Select Specialty Hospital is a critical illness recovery hospital committed to providing world-class inpatient post-ICU services to chronic, critically ill patients who require extended healing and recovery. We help patients during some of the most vulnerable, painful moments of their lives – and Wound Care Nurses (RNs) play a central role in providing compassionate, excellent treatment every step of the way.
We support your career growth and personal well-being
Start Strong : Extensive Registered Nurse (RN) orientation program to ensure a smooth transition into our setting
Invest in Your Future : 100% company-paid scholarship (BSN), tuition reimbursement, and continuing education
Elevate Your
Skills
Clinical ladder programs and certifications such as PCCN and CCRN
Ease the Burden : Student debt benefit program
Your Health Matters: Comprehensive benefits package including generous PTO and 401(K) with company match
Your Impact Matters: Join a team of over 44,000 committed to providing exceptional patient care
Responsibilities
Preserving the integrity of the skin by implementing and monitoring skin preservation strategies.
Ensuring all wound and skin care protocols are approved by the medical staff.
Organizing multidisciplinary wound and skin rounds on a weekly basis for high risk patients and patients with current pressure ulcers and other significant wounds.
Providing hands-on wound care for all difficult and non-healing wounds.
Serving as a resource to all hospital staff on all issues related to wound and skin care.
Ensuring all regulatory requirements are met
Qualifications
Minimum qualifications
AD (Associate's degree in Nursing) required.
One (1) year of related experience required.
Valid State RN License.
Possess a Basic Life Support (BLS) certification by start date.
Must complete wound care training in the first 90 days in the role.
Neighborhoods+Community threads steer families and relocating professionals toward North Davenport, McClellan Heights, Bettendorf, Eldridge, Riverdale, Pleasant Valley Township, Coal Valley, and Dewitt if a short extra commute is acceptable. Downtown and the Court District, plus the Village of East Davenport’s 19th-century streets and river-bluff shops, are the walkable pockets for people who want breweries, cafés, and nightlife; Hamburg Historic District is cited for distinctive architecture made for strolling. Davenport generally offers a wider, lower entry-price spread of older homes than Moline, while Bettendorf and some newer or river-adjacent areas sit at a more premium tier. Downtown’s restaurants, live music, and riverfront are explicitly described as popular with young professionals.
Community threads steer families and relocating professionals toward North Davenport, McClellan Heights, Bettendorf, Eldridge, Riverdale, Pleasant Valley Township, Coal Valley, and Dewitt if a short extra commute is acceptable. Downtown and the Court District, plus the Village of East Davenport’s 19th-century streets and river-bluff shops, are the walkable pockets for people who want breweries, cafés, and nightlife; Hamburg Historic District is cited for distinctive architecture made for strolling.
Davenport generally offers a wider, lower entry-price spread of older homes than Moline, while Bettendorf and some newer or river-adjacent areas sit at a more premium tier. Downtown’s restaurants, live music, and riverfront are explicitly described as popular with young professionals.
Getting around+Typical Davenport commutes are about 17 minutes, described as roughly nine minutes shorter than the national average, and locals contrast that with the lack of big-city traffic. I-74 is the main river crossing into Bettendorf and the Illinois Quad Cities and can congest at peak times, especially for west-side employers such as John Deere in Moline. Davenport, Bettendorf, Moline, and Rock Island operate as one job-and-errand metro, so most daily drives stay inside a compact loop rather than a long suburban haul. These sources do not name hospital campuses, bus lines, or parking rules.
Typical Davenport commutes are about 17 minutes, described as roughly nine minutes shorter than the national average, and locals contrast that with the lack of big-city traffic. I-74 is the main river crossing into Bettendorf and the Illinois Quad Cities and can congest at peak times, especially for west-side employers such as John Deere in Moline.
Davenport, Bettendorf, Moline, and Rock Island operate as one job-and-errand metro, so most daily drives stay inside a compact loop rather than a long suburban haul. These sources do not name hospital campuses, bus lines, or parking rules.
Outdoors+Outdoor life orients to the Mississippi, the only stretch in the country where the river runs east to west: the Mississippi River Trail, LeClaire Park’s band shell and summer concerts, Centennial Park, the Davenport Skybridge, and walks across the I-74 bridge. Vander Veer Botanical Park has a conservatory and formal gardens; Credit Island Park & Natural Historic Preserve and Duck Creek Park (with a golf course) add in-town green space. Cyclists use Sylvan Island’s rugged trails and the American Discovery Trail crossing; weekends fill with fishing, boating, picnics, and Backwater Gamblers water-ski shows.
Outdoor life orients to the Mississippi, the only stretch in the country where the river runs east to west: the Mississippi River Trail, LeClaire Park’s band shell and summer concerts, Centennial Park, the Davenport Skybridge, and walks across the I-74 bridge. Vander Veer Botanical Park has a conservatory and formal gardens; Credit Island Park & Natural Historic Preserve and Duck Creek Park (with a golf course) add in-town green space.
Cyclists use Sylvan Island’s rugged trails and the American Discovery Trail crossing; weekends fill with fishing, boating, picnics, and Backwater Gamblers water-ski shows.
Check the commute at your shift’s start and end, upfront housing costs, and whether moving assistance must be repaid if you leave.
Living in Davenport
Davenport is the Iowa side of the Quad Cities, a nearly 500,000-person metro where the Mississippi runs east to west and four cities share jobs, restaurants, and trails. For a nurse, the draw is practical: about a 17-minute average commute, median home values around $185,000, median rent near $810, and a downtown that actually functions—Figge Art Museum, Adler Theatre, Quad City Symphony, and River Bandits games at Modern Woodmen Park. Young professionals cluster toward downtown and the Court District; families name North Davenport, McClellan Heights, Bettendorf, Eldridge, and Pleasant Valley Township. You can bike the Mississippi River Trail, stroll Vander Veer Botanical Park, or hit Freight House Farmers’ Market year-round. Honest tradeoffs: Iowa property taxes still rank high nationally and Davenport’s are steeper than Bettendorf’s; downtown floods because there is no flood wall, and feeder creeks threaten more houses than the river itself; winters are cold and summers can be humid. Infrastructure is a mixed bag. What you get in return is bigger-city arts and sports without big-city traffic, plus easy access across I-74 to Illinois employers like John Deere.
