Job Description

Clayton Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center, located in Clayton, NC, is a Long Term Care facility that provides quality care to our residents. Join a growing team of successful, happy caregivers who are valued and appreciated. We are under new management and excited to offer an amazing new benefits package!

• New added bonuses and perks!
• Employee discounts!

Now hiring: Weekend Wound Care Nurse

In keeping with our organizations goal of improving the lives of the Residents we serve, the Wound/Treatment Nurse plays a critical role in providing superior customer service and nursing care to all Residents. The Wound Nurse is responsible for performing skin treatments for all Residents under their care. This position will obtain treatment orders from attending physicians and assist with modifying the treatment regimen in accordance with established policies and procedures. The Treatment Nurse will provide supervision of staff and will safeguard the health, safety and welfare of all Guests under their care by following applicable laws, regulations, and established nursing policies and procedures.

Essential Functions

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Daily

• Complete a Head to Toe body audit on all new admissions and re?admissions to ensure that all open areas have been identified by the admitting nurse. Ensure that skin sheets, treatment orders written and preventative measures put in place (T&P, specialty mattress, heels up ordered or boots).
• Review residents identified with new skin alterations and ensure implementation of skin sheet, treatment, specialty mattress, Braden scale updated, T&P orders, heels up orders or boots (if applicable) and initiate care plan (UM).

Weekly

• Update skin sheets every 7 days. Choose a particular day and ensure updated by close of business on that day.
• Unit Managers to update care plans weekly for pressure and non?pressure areas. Care plans updated every week by Fridays.
• Wound Report sent to VP of Clinical Services by Thursday will include % of Center Acquired Pressure Ulcers. Company goal is 3% or less.
• Treatments are to be completed by Wound Nurse to: Vascular, Surgical, Pressure of stage 2 or greater Monday?Friday.
• Skin Tears, stage 1 need to be treated by the Charge Nurse Monday?Friday with completion of the skin sheets weekly. It is the Unit Manager and Wound nurses responsibility to ensure that these skin sheets are being completed by the charge nurse weekly.

On-going

• Prevent wounds. Daily education to staff: reminders to T&P residents (in wheelchairs, geri?chairs and in bed), Toileting, incontinent care. Proactive VS Reactive approach to wound care will make the facility successful in wound care management. Holding Nurses and CNAs accountable for preventative maintenance.
• When wounds become worsened, the treatment should be changed within a 2?week period with input from the Wound physician and PCP at facility.
• Preventative items for residents at risk of developing Center Acquired Pressure Ulcers: orders for T&P, barrier cream (Zinc), pressure relieving device to chairs, gel cushion at minimum to wheelchair/Geri chair, Braden assessments at admission, quarterly, and with any condition change. If Braden score low, specialty mattress applied; at risk care plans for all resident.
• Consults with Nursing team concerning assessment evaluations and assist in planning and developing the skin care treatment plan.
• Initiate requests for consultation or referral.
• Assess residents and records on admission, discriminate normal vs abnormal findings to recognize when to refer the resident to a physician.
• May act as a Unit Nurse when directed.
• Provides supervision to CNAs and all subordinate staff, checking their work to ascertain completed assignments.
• Administer medications within scope of practice of the RN or LPN licence. Maintain current report of narcotics received and used.
• Carry out direct contemporaneous charting during shift. Chart detailed monthly evaluations of each resident reflecting condition and progress.
• Ensure residents care plans followed, assess status per care plan.
• Round with Wound physician weekly and prn with physicians.
• Know individual care plans and support planning by reporting specific info, observations, behavioral changes.
• Provide wound care when needed and delegate prn.
• Complete weekly skin sheets.
• Maintain infection control and standard precaution practices during care. Follow safety precautions when performing tasks and using equipment and supplies.
• Maintain comfort, privacy, and dignity of residents, interact with warmth, respect, promoting a caring environment.
• Answer and respond to call lights promptly and courteously.
• Assist with admissions and re?admissions when directed.
• Communicate and interact effectively and tactfully with residents, visitors, families, peers, supervisors.
• Attend and participate in departmental meetings and in?services as directed.

Required Education And Experience

• Graduate from an accredited nursing program.
• Current State License as a Registered Nurse or Licensed Practical Nurse.
• CPR Certified.

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Seniority level

• Entry level

Employment type

• Part?time

Job function

• Health Care Provider
• Hospitals and Health Care

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