RN-Wound Lead - Inpatient

• 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 nursing

EXPERIENCE

• Three years' wound nursing experience

PHYSICAL 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.