Clinical Services Nurse (RN) Wound Ostomy

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About Duke Raleigh Hospital, A Campus of Duke University Hospital

 

Pursue your passion for caring with the Duke Raleigh Campus in Raleigh, North Carolina. With 204-beds, it is the third largest of Duke Health’s four hospitals and offers a comprehensive array of services, including cancer, cardiovascular, neuroscience, advanced gastrointestinal, and wound healing care.

$7,500 Commitment Bonus for experienced nurses!

Position Summary

The Wound, Ostomy, and Continence Clinical Services Nurse (WOC CSN) provide leadership in the care of patients with stomas, draining wounds, or incontinence, throughout the organization. This includes the utilization of clinical expertise to provide preoperative and postoperative care, counseling, and teaching to patients 0-99 years of age in need of wound, ostomy, and/or continence management. S/he has primary responsibility for educating nurses to ensure knowledge and competency in basic wound, ostomy, and continence management; and works collaboratively with the interdisciplinary team in a variety of specialties in planning and coordinating the care. The WOC CSN is an integral part of multiple teams, as a clinician, educator, consultant, and leader.

 

General Description of the Job Class

Independently plan and provide professional nursing care for patients in accordance with physician orders and established policies and procedures. Provide nursing services to patients and families in accordance with the scope of the RN as defined by the North Carolina Board of Nursing. Nurses hired into this limited benefited classification will commit to work a minimum number of hours in a designated inpatient nursing department. Compensation is a flat rate.

 

Duties and Responsibilities of this Level

• Plan and provide professional nursing care for patients in accordance with physician orders and
  established policies and procedures (Direct Care)
• Identifies patient caseload through referrals and active case finding
• Conducts complete and accurate patient assessment
• Provides specialized nursing treatment, care and education to patients with wounds
• Provides specialized nursing treatment, care, stomal siting, and education to patients undergoing urinary or stool diversion in accordance with physician/nursing orders and established policies and procedures
• Provides specialized nursing treatment, care, and education to patients with draining wounds or requiring continence management or other specialized urologic interventions (such as clean intermittent self-catheterization or continuous bladder irrigation)
• Selects, develops and/or implements evidence-based clinical interventions and systems to achieve defined patient and system outcomes
• Serves as a resource to patients and families, providing preoperative counseling and follow-up problem solving after discharge from the hospital
• Utilizes comprehensive assessment skills in the evaluation of stoma and wound care products and supplies in an effort to provide quality, cost-effective care
• Assist patients and families with the understanding of their diagnosis and the management thereof
• Identifies patient/family education needs and priorities
• Coaches patients and families to help them navigate the healthcare system
• Utilizes teaching and learning theories to assist patients and families with physical and emotional impact of body changes and chronic illness
• Provides additional information/community resources to enhance the patient’s quality of life as it relates to the alterations in body image and life style
• Participates in developing, implementing and evaluating patient education resources and programs appropriate to the patient’s developmental level, health literacy level, learning needs, readiness to learn, and cultural values and beliefs
• Assesses learning needs of nursing staff; participate in planning and implementing appropriate educational forums and opportunities to address critical learning needs and skills
• Assist nursing personnel in the delivery of nursing care functioning as an integral member of the multidisciplinary team
• Establishes collaborative relationships w