LPN Wound Care Nurse
Company: Coquina Center
Location: Ormond Beach
Posted on: March 11, 2023
Job Description:
LPN Wound Care Nurse"Daily Pay Options"Coquina Center is seeking
a qualified LPN Wound Care Nurse. This nurse provides care that
will quickly and safely heal various types of wounds, including
surgical openings, ulcers, bed sores, feeding tube sites, and
abscesses. The wound care nurse will access the wounds, create and
implement treatment plans, monitor infection and signs of various
infections, and clean wounds.Responsibilities:
- Maintain a Comprehensive care plan for skin impairments-
updating as needed to include any change in treatment, improvement
and/or decline
- Weekly wound rounds with wound consultant
- Weekly wound measurements documented
- Review investigation for all new skin opening related to
pressure
- Monitoring vascular/arterial/surgical wounds and document
appropriately -treatment, comprehensive care plan, coordinating
follow-up when indicated & maintain weekly measurements
- Educate and counsel patients and their families on wound care
processes and issues
- Demonstrate wound care procedures to other care givers
- Attend morning report, identify any new opening and document
accordingly
- Supervising the Rehab CNA
- Work with rehab to evaluate residents who present with a
decline
- Attend CMI meeting when appropriate
- Correspond with rehab to determine residents need for
positioning devices
- Maintain facility wound tracking report
- Monitor residents with devices to ensure skin maintenance
- Maintain a list of all residents with devices including but not
limited to splints or braces.
- Ensure devices are identified on plan of care and worn
appropriately via audit tool/rounds
- Attend weight meeting, ensure appropriate interventions to
maintain skin integrity
- Provide in-service to floor nurses to ensure awareness related
to skin integrity maintenance, documentation and care -
- Maintain skin care policy
- Assist in the Quality Assurance and Performance Improvement
(QAPI) processRequirements/Qualifications:
- BSN or equivalent
- Must be a graduate of an RN nursing program
- Current registration and license to practice as a Registered
Nurse in the state employed in
- Peripheral IV certification
- Two years of clinical nursing experience
- One-year experience in a management position preferred
- One-year experience in geriatrics and subacute population
- CPR/BLS certified
- The ability to read, write, speak and understand the English
language required, knowledge of other language helpful
Keywords: Coquina Center, Palm Coast , LPN Wound Care Nurse, Healthcare , Ormond Beach, Florida
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