RN (Registered Nurse) - Wound Healing Center

WHO WE ARE & WHAT WE DO

Tallahassee Memorial Healthcare (TMH) is a private, nonprofit community-based healthcare system that provides care to a 22-county region in North Florida and South Georgia. We are a career destination with over 6,000 colleagues who reflect the diversity of our community. TMH is the region's healthcare leader and top provider of advanced care with a 772-bed acute care hospital and the region's only:

• Level II Trauma Center 
• Primary Stroke Center 
• Level III Neonatal Intensive Care 
• Pediatric Intensive Care 
• The most advanced cancer, heart and vascular, orthopedic & surgery programs in the Panhandle. 

Our system also includes a psychiatric hospital, multiple specialty care centers, six residency programs and more than 50 affiliated physician practices. 

HOW YOU'LL MAKE AN IMPACT

Your Role:

• Is fundamental in achieving recognized world-class health care.
• Is directly and indirectly responsible for the patient care environment.
• Is responsible for providing high-quality, courteous, safe, and efficient patient care by collaborating with health care team members and autonomously applying the nursing process.
• Coordinates and delegates care in a safe, secure, and clean environment.
• Leads, mentors, and role models for other health care team members.
• Respects patients’ rights, dignity, values, confidentiality, and expressed needs.
• Uses evidence-based practices and information technologies while focusing on providing comfort, relieving pain, and alleviating anxiety.
• Administers hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) to patients as prescribed by a hyperbaric physician.
• Ensures all required documentation is completed for patient charts and chamber maintenance.
• Is responsible for safe hyperbaric chambers’ operations and maintenance.
• Assesses materials appropriate for use in and around hyperbaric chambers.
• Splits responsibilities between HBOT (60%) and general wound care (40%).

Reports:

RN/Nurse Manager

 

Supervises:

None [Supervises hyperbaric chamber safety, not subordinates]

WHAT YOU’LL NEED TO APPLY

Required Education:

• Associate degree in nursing.
• HBOT course completion within six (6) months post-hire.

Preferred Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in nursing.
• HBOT course completion pre-hire. 

Required Experience:

• One (1) year of registered nursing experience in an acute care or criticalcare setting.

Preferred Experience:

• Two (2) or more years of registered nursing experience.

Required Certification/License/Registry:

• Licensed as an RN in accordance with Florida Statutes, Title XXXII(Regulation of Professions and Occupations), Chapter 464 (Nursing), Part I(Nursing Practice Act).
• Basic Life Support (BLS) or Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) certification from an accredited American Heart Association (AHA) instructor.
• Certified Hyperbaric Technologist (CHT) and/or Certified Hyperbaric Registered Nurse (CHRN) credential(s) within eighteen(18) months post-hire.

Required Certification/License/Registry:

• CHT and/or CHRN credential(s) pre-hire.

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Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare is an equal opportunity employer and drug-free workplace. All employment is contingent upon successful completion of a drug screen, background check, reference verification, health assessment, and credential/license verification.