Registered Nurse- Wound Care Coordinator Outpatient

Department:

36502 Advocate South Suburban Hospital - Wound Care

Status:

Full time

Benefits Eligible:

Yes

Hours Per Week:

36

Schedule Details/Additional Information:

No weekend or holidays.

Pay Range

$37.50 - $56.25

Major Responsibilities:

Provides consultation and direct patient care for prevention and management of wounds.

• Provides teaching for patients and families/caregivers, interfaces with wound therapy staff on additional teaching needs.
• May be required to assist inpatient wound program on an as needed basis until outpatient program is fully operational.
• Performs and documents wound/skin assessments using a comprehensive and systematic approach.
• Facilitates a comprehensive plan of care and communicates plan to physicians, wound therapists, and other health care providers as appropriate.
• Collaborates with health care team members to ensure effective implementation of plan.
• Evaluates effectiveness of interventions and revises plan as needed.
• Communicates ongoing wound care needs and interventions across the care continuum, including the outpatient wound program.
• Educates health care professionals, other caregivers, and patients about risk factors, prevention, and appropriate interventions and treatments.
• Serves as a resource to instruct and monitor clinical staff in prevention strategies and the delivery of care for wound management.
• Provides information on current trends, techniques, and wound research outcomes to staff.

Improve cost and quality outcomes related to wound prevention and wound management.

• Collaborates with hospital teams and departments to develop, implement, and evaluate strategies to prevent and treat wounds.
• Assists the hospital and Advocate’s Wound Care Council in identifying cost savings related to wound care supplies and treatment modalities.
• Ensures results equal to or better than national data on outpatient wound healing.
• Maintains statistics for wound patient populations.
• Develops wound care competencies for nursing staff. Provides guidance and expertise for product usage and techniques.
• Performs quality improvement monitoring on identified areas that are high-risk or require improvement. Develops interventions to address identified issues.
• Obtains input to evaluate effectiveness of role and opportunities to better meet customer needs.
• Keeps abreast of current standards of care via literature, educational events, internal and external resources, and internal/external networking.
• Maintains memberships in professional and community organizations.
• Participates in activities to enhance professional growth by involvement in professional organizations and continuing education.

Operational Planning

• Maintains statistics for wound patient populations.
• Leads program development initiatives.
• Develops and implements policies and procedures relative to the department with manager and/or director.
• Maintains a relationship with professional organizations and associations for the purpose of keeping abreast of external trends which affect this area of practice.
• Aligns department goals with site goals.
• Participates in the development of annual KRA/LEM goals for the department: devises an action plan and implements strategies to meet these goals with manager and/or director
• Assists the hospital and Advocate's Wound Care Council in identifying cost savings related to wound care supplies and treatment modalities.
• Assist manager/director in developing and monitoring operational and capital budget.
• Participates in hospital wide committees and activities as appropriate.
• Improve cost and quality outcomes related to wound prevention and wound management.
• Designs and implements workflow processes for physician based wound program.

Licensure:

• Registered Nurse license issued by the state in which the team member practices, and
• CPR Certification

Education/Experience Required:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing
• Typically requires 4 years clinical experience, with one year supervisory, Team Lead or Charge Nurse experience.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities Required:

• CWOCN Certification, or COCN and CWCN and CWSCPR Certification preferred.
• Experience in quality improvement.
• Knowledge of Adult Education.
• Experience in an outpatient setting.