REGISTERED NURSE - WOUND CARE

Summary:

A registered professional nurse responsible for the delivery of the care of the patient through the nursing process of assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation. Also directs and guides patient teaching, activities of ancillary personnel, while maintaining standards of professional nursing. Functions within the Nurse Practice Act of the State of New Mexico, as well as the policies and procedures of the Cibola General Hospital.

Qualifications

Requires current New Mexico license.

Requires current CPR.

Requires combination of education and experience with knowledge, skills and abilities essential to the performance of duties assigned.

Must possess good interpersonal skills and the ability to deal tactfully with staff, physicians, patients and their families.

Must have knowledge and abilities to take care of patients on different age categories.

Department Specific Qualifications

Wound Care Nurse

Requires current BLS /ACLS

Excellent interpersonal communication skills

Must have good organization, time management, and critical thinking skills

Working collaboratively with other members of the patient care team to determine if additional treatments or changes in care are required

Assisting Providers in performing wound care treatments, cleansing wounds, dressing applications

Assist with care of patients of varying ages.

Educating patients, their family members, and healthcare staff on the products and interventions required for skin healing and maintenance.

Documenting and photographing skin treatments required for hospital reimbursement.

Proof of completion of 24 continuing education (CE) credits in basic skin/ wound care and ostomy care, or within 1 year of hire.

On the job training

Other duties as assigned Psychological Considerations

Able to work under stressful situations and respond to emergencies competently.

Able to work as part of a team.

Must be flexible, have problem-solving skills, prioritize, and demonstrate healthy coping mechanism.

Environmental Considerations

Potential contamination/exposure to blood borne pathogens, body substances, biohazardous materials and infectious diseases.

Able to work in a temperature-controlled hospital environment.

Occasional exposure to a variety of auditory and olfactory stimuli.

Physical Considerations

Standing: to change IV bags, set up equipment, deliver patient care/treatment.

Walking: to walk patients, make rounds, respond to emergencies, answer phones and alarms, gather equipment and move about unit.

Squatting and kneeling: to plug in equipment, provide CPR, assess and empty drainage bags, assist patients from floor and transfer patients from chairs to beds.

Pushing/pulling: to move patients in wheelchairs, crash carts, room furniture, gurneys, repositions patients, bed scales, apply pressure to vascular sites and open drawers.

Lifting: to transfer adult patients (approximately 80 pounds), move equipment into rooms (approximately 20 pounds).

Manual/finger dexterity: to administer medications, calibrate equipment, insert IV's, insert tubes, insert cannulas, set up telemetry and IV pumps, utilize keyboard functions and document.

Vision: to read fine print, labels, documentation: to review telemetry, digital monitor; to read chemical reactions and test results.

Reaching: overhead reach to open cabinets, insert/obtain wall suction, obtain supplies from top shelf.

Hearing: to auscultate (BP, HT sounds, lung sounds, bowel sounds); to answer alarms, phones, distress signals and overhead pages.

Sitting: to chart, counsel, give patient teaching.

Speaking: to communicate with others in English.

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