Clinical Services Nurse (RN) Wound Ostomy Continence

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About Duke Regional Hospital

 

Pursue your passion for caring with Duke Regional Hospital in Durham, North Carolina, which ranks as the number four hospital in the Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina area, accordingto U.S. News and World Report for 2023-2024. Duke Regional Hospital is the second largest of Duke Health's three hospitals and offers a comprehensive range of medical, surgical, and diagnostic services, including orthopedics, weight-loss surgery, women's services, and heart and vascular services.

Duke Nursing Highlights:

 

• Duke University Health System is designated as a Magnet organization
• Nurses from each hospital are consistentlyrecognized each year as North Carolina's Great 100 Nurses.
• Duke University Health System was awarded the American Board of Nursing Specialties Award for Nursing Certification Advocacy for being strong advocates of specialty nursing certification.
• Duke University Health System has 6000 + registered nurses
• Quality of Life: Living in the Triangle!
• Relocation Assistance (based on eligibility)

 

Position Summary

The Wound, Ostomy, and Continence Nurse Clinician (WOC NC) 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 WOCN Nurse Clinician is an integral part of multiple teams, as a clinician, educator, consultant, and leader.

 

Work Schedule

Fulltime, 40 hours per week. 

 

$7,500 commitment bonus offered, eligibility rules apply. 

 

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 program