Registered Nurse (RN), Wound Ostomy Continence, FT Days - Windy Hill Hospital
On-siteVinings, Georgia, United States
Job Summary
Act as a consultant to physicians, evaluating patients and developing individualized, evidence-based plans of care for wounds, fistulas, ostomies, and continence issues. Respond to consult requests by writing orders within scope, determining wound/ostomy care frequency, and marking patients for ostomy surgery while providing pre- and post-op education. Perform the nursing process using evidence-based practice, coordinate interdisciplinary communication through unit rounds and case reviews, and deliver relationship-based care with comprehensive hand-off processes. Manage hyperbaric oxygen therapy by monitoring patients during treatment, intervening in adverse reactions, and operating chamber controls to ensure safety. Maintain accurate chamber logs, perform maintenance and cleaning per infection control policies, and document all treatment elements including patient response. Serve as a clinical expert in hospital committees, lead outcome evaluations, and develop product formularies to support best practices.
Required Qualifications
- Licensed caregiver
- Certified
- Knowledgeable
- Upholds the practice of nursing as outlined by the Georgia Professional Nurse Practice Act
- Implements the Scope of Practice and Code of Ethics Standards put forth by the American Nurses Association
- Upholds the voice of the patient
- Supports service excellence goals
- Works in a shared governance model
- Executes clinical practice using best evidence
- Engages in continuous learning from formal education
- Reads professional literature
- Engages in reflective practice
- Acts as a consultant to the physician
- Develops individualized, evidence-based plans of care
- Writes orders within the WOCN scope of practice
- Follows standing orders for other nurses
- Determines type and frequency of wound/ostomy care
- Uses expert judgment
- Marks patients for ostomy surgery
- Selects best and alternative sites for surgeons
- Provides education to the patient and family pre- and post-op
- Guides for psychosocial, sexual and body image adaption
- Performs the Nursing Process (assessment; diagnosis; identification of outcomes; planning; implementation and evaluation)
- Uses evidence-based practice
- Uses analytical/critical thinking
- Coordinates care through effective partnerships
- Provides relationship-based care delivery
- Partners with the patient and significant others
- Uses comprehensive hand-off communication processes
- Engages in interdisciplinary evaluation and communication
- Provides just in time and planned patient teaching
- Makes the patients goals the focus of the plan of care
- Practices using current clinical practice standards
- Focuses on safety and quality
- Demonstrates knowledge and understanding of the Healing Strategies for wound care
- Understands the role of HBO therapy
- Knows different approved clinical indications and treatment protocols for HBO treatment
- Delivers care to the patient immediately prior to, during, and immediately following the HBO treatment
- Documents all aspects of that care
- Monitors and ensures the proper delivery of treatment gas as ordered
- Monitors the patients continually during treatments for symptoms of oxygen intolerance, claustrophobia, hypoglycemic reactions, decompression sickness or any other adverse reaction to HBO treatments
- Intervenes in the event of an adverse reaction
- Follows established protocols
- Demonstrates competence in reinforcing age specific patient and family education
- Covers common topics related to the HBO therapy and related underlying disease processes
- Performs ordered treatments including but not limited to vital signs, blood sugars, and emergency procedures
- Documents required elements of each treatment
- Includes a description of the chamber settings, duration of treatment, patient response to the procedure, and any other relevant observations
- Demonstrates and applies basic knowledge about HBOT chamber operations
- Ensures efficacy of treatment and safety of the patient and those in the immediate area
- Demonstrates knowledge of the basic physiological principles/concepts of the HBO treatment
- Operates controls to pressurize and depressurize the chamber according to prescribed policies
- Maintains accurate logs and records of the time, pressures, depths, etc. of chamber operations
- Performs maintenance of the hyperbaric chamber (s) and related support systems
- Cleans chamber following each treatment
- Maintains emergency equipment and supplies located in the HBO area
- Documents equipment checks as required by established policies
- Serves as clinical expert in various hospital committees, community groups and organizations
- Leads outcome evaluations
- Participates in improvement initiatives related to WOC nursing practice
- Evaluates and develops product formularies and algorithms
- Facilitates the needs of the bariatric population with specialty bed management
- Coordinates the delivery and documentation of safe quality patient care
- Promotes interdisciplinary communication
- Completes regular interdisciplinary planning/rounds
- Completes completion of time
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