SRS - Wound Care - RN - Frost Street - Full Time - Day Shift

Hours:

Shift Start Time:

7:30 AM

Shift End Time:

4 PM

AWS Hours Requirement:

8/40 - 8 Hour Shift

Additional Shift Information:

Weekend Requirements:

No Weekends

On-Call Required:

No

Hourly Pay Range (Minimum - Midpoint - Maximum):

$51.877 - $66.938 - $81.999

 

The stated pay scale reflects the range that Sharp reasonably expects to pay for this position.  The actual pay rate and pay grade for this position will be dependent on a variety of factors, including an applicant’s years of experience, unique skills and abilities, education, alignment with similar internal candidates, marketplace factors, other requirements for the position, and employer business practices. 

 

What You Will Do
Assists patients, staff and physicians as needed to maintain a high level of efficiency of operations and customer service while providing quality care to the designated patient population. Assists with the Leadership of the Nursing and Patient Service Representative staff. Serves as technical nursing expert for assigned areas. Under the supervision of the Nurse Practitioner, provides a higher level of care specializing in the assessment and management of chronic wounds, ostomies and issues with continence.

Required Qualifications

• 3 Years RN experience in related clinical area.
• 1 Year Wound Care experience.
• California Registered Nurse (RN) - CA Board of Registered Nursing -REQUIRED
• Certified Wound Ostomy Nurse (CWON) - The Wound, Ostomy, and Continence Nursing Certification Board (WOCNCB) -REQUIRED
• AHA Basic Life Support for Healthcare Professional (AHA BLS Healthcare) - American Heart Association -REQUIRED

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Nursing

Essential Functions

• Clinical skills
  
  Demonstrates clinical knowledge and skill and technical expertise in assigned area and within scope of practice.
  Uses well developed assessment skills to deliver all nursing care.
  Fully successful in performing/assisting with all tests and procedures in assigned department.
  Able to prepare patient for examination or procedure. Obtains complete and accurate consent for procedures/surgery. Prepares and labels biopsies in a thorough and accurate manner.
  Accurately documents patient care per protocol.
  Partners with physicians to continuously learn and expand clinical knowledge base.
  Listens to patients. Collects pertinent information, recognized the urgency of the patient’s problem and routes to the physicians. Returns phone calls according to physician instruction. May schedule patients’ appointments.
  In partnership with Physicians, provides specific educational material and individual teaching.
  Uses universal precautions and demonstrates knowledge of infection control policies and procedures.
  Department specific requirements: all in collaboration with the Nurse Practitioner/referring provider:
  
  Wound and Skin Care:
  * Management of Chronic, Surgical, Diabetic, Venous, Arterial and Traumatic wounds. Simple to complex wound dressing management. Compression wrap application. Compression sticking application. Cast management.
  * The CWOCN performs routine patient assessment regarding condition changes; signs and symptoms of infection; worsening wound; new wound; skin changes to peri-wound; abnormal vital signs; swelling issues; exudate changes; increase in pain; etc. with a timely report to provider.
  * Comprehensive assessment and directing the plan of care: history and physical examination; wound assessment; comorbidity assessment; dietary assessment; risk and prevention assessment.
  * Management of chronic wounds (e.g. arterial/venous/neuropathic complications, surgical wounds, tumors, pressure ulcers, etc.).
  * Implementation of appropriate treatment modalities: compression therapy Negative Wound Therapy (NPWT) simple dressing changes to ensure a moist wound healing environment, pressure reduction methods, management of moisture associated skin damage (MASD), total contact casting, palliative care, etc.
  * Referrals to other specialties: Vascular Surgery, General Surgery, Plastic Surgery, Orthopedics, Lymphedema clinic, Physical Therapy, etc.
  Debridement techniques: sharp, enzymatic and chemical.
  
  Ostomy Care:
  * Comprehensive assessment and directing the plan of care: history and physical examinations; preoperative site marking; postoperative stomal and peristomal skin assessment with routine follow-up; comorbidity assessment; dietary assessment; risk and prevention assessment; life style