RN-Wound Lead - Inpatient
Company: SSM Health
Location: Oklahoma City
Posted on: August 7, 2022
Job Description:
Provides oversight for the organizations wound prevention and
care program to implement standardized evidence-based care and the
achievement of exceptional clinical outcomes.PRIMARY
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Serves as a resource, mentor, and content expert for wound
nurses.
- May provide input for hiring, training, directing, developing
and evaluating wound nurses.
- Coordinates responsibilities among the department nurses to
help sustain the standards of the program, including monthly
meetings and new initiatives/products as they are identified.
- Coordinates development, implementation and ongoing monitoring
of standardized wound scorecard.
- Works to standardize wound practices across the organization to
ensure maintenance of evidence-based practice.
- Ensures that all wound order sets/policies and
procedures/guidelines are reviewed annually, with incorporation of
the latest guidelines and evidence-based practice.
- Coordinates the completion of the monthly/quarterly/annual
communication/education offering.
- Coordinates schedule for the wound nurse orientation lectures
and completes annual review of wound orientation materials.
- Functions as the liaison to the system professional nurse
practice council and other regional and system clinical
groups.
- Works in a constant state of alertness and safe manner.
- Performs other duties as assigned.EDUCATION
- Graduate of accredited school of nursingEXPERIENCE
- Three years' wound nursing experiencePHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS
- Constant use of speech to share information through oral
communication.
- Constant standing and walking.
- Frequent lifting/carrying and pushing/pulling objects weighing
0-25 lbs.
- Frequent sitting, reaching and keyboard use/data entry.
- Frequent use of vision and depth perception for distances near
(20 inches or less) and far (20 feet or more) and to identify and
distinguish colors.
- Frequent use of smell to detect/recognize odors.
- Frequent use of hearing to receive oral communication,
distinguish body sounds and/or hear alarms, malfunctioning
machinery, etc.
- Occasional lifting/carrying and pushing/pulling objects
weighing 25-50 lbs.
- Occasional lifting/moving of patients.
- Occasional bending, stooping, kneeling, squatting, twisting,
gripping and repetitive foot/leg and hand/arm movements.
- Occasional driving.
- Rare crawling and running.Required
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