Posting Note: Phoenix Children's has an immediate need for an experienced Inpatient Wound Ostomy Nurse for our Thomas location. The Wound Care nurse will work along side a small team of nurses, and APP Wound Care Specialist, and a surgeon to care for our patients who specific wound/ostomy needs. Incumbent will have expert skills in prioritizing daily work flow of patients, and round on a daily basis to visit patients in Acute/Critical Care and Rehab units. Incumbent must have outstanding collaboration skills, time management, self motivated, ability to work autonomously, self driven/disciplined. You will create daily plans of care for patient, collect data, identify trends/issues and with the evidence based practice, develop best practices for the patient/hospital. Incumbent must have a MINIMUM of 3 years of Acute/Critical care experience in a hospital. Wound/Ostomy experience is preferred, but will be required to receive their WOCN Certification during first year of employment. This position is 4/10's, and will work M - F, 7 AM - 5:30 PM, with one scheduled day off during the week.

This position works in collaboration with the Wound Care and/or Surgery Team including Surgeons, Physicians, Advanced Practitioner Providers, Licensed Independent Practitioner healthcare team, patient, and their family to promote patient care for skin, wound care, and ostomy management through delivery of professional nursing care appropriate to patient’s age and condition in accordance with evidence-based nursing and patient care practice standards and hospital goals, values and regulatory standards.

1. Working in collaboration with the wound care and/or surgery team, uses specialized knowledge to complete nursing assessments of patient’s skin, wound, or ostomy condition consistent with age including physical, psychological, social, developmental, and educational factors, to determine the patient’s initial skin, wound, or ostomy care needs in accordance with evidence based standards and per policy. Performs ongoing patient assessments, identifies variations, and works with providers on changes to plan of care accordingly.
2. Works collaboratively with the health care team, patient and family to establish and implement plan of care for skin, wound, and ostomy care to ensure coordination of activities and ongoing communication of patient health status. Participates in patient care rounds and patient care conferences as appropriate.
3. Must work well both independently and with a team. Contributes to team efforts by accomplishing required activities within established parameters to ensure compliance with all applicable specialty guidelines, standards of care, documentation standards, regulations, and requirements.
4. Integrates specialized knowledge into patient and staff education, coaching, and mentoring as applicable.
5. Continually evaluates patient responses to skin, wound, or ostomy care. Provides teaching, and discharge plans for wound and ostomy patients as appropriate. Documents patient progress in appropriate charts.
6. Collaborates with the Quality Team on the pressure ulcer prevention safety initiative.
7. Performs miscellaneous job related duties as requested.

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