Wound Nurse

Department: Nursing

Job Title: Wound care Nurse Reports To: Director of Nursing Coordinates With: All Departments

Educational Requirement: Registered Nurse for at least 2 years

Position Summary

The Wound Care Nurse is responsible for the overall follow up of all the residents in the facility with all types of wounds.

Functions

• Checks all new admissions and readmissions for presence of wounds.
• Coordinates with all Unit Managers and Nursing Supervisors for all nosocomial wounds.
• Ensures that treatment orders are in place.
• Monitors the response of the treatment orders.
• Weekly Wound rounds with Wound Doctor.
• Initiates the individual Wound care plans.
• Initiates and updates the weekly wound tracking and distributes to the other departments.
• Updates and evaluates the Wound care plans quarterly and when there is a significant change.
• Informs the Next of Kin of the residents with wounds on admission, readmission, and in-house developed and documents in the progress notes.
• Ensures that the resident with wounds have specialized mattress and off-loading devices.
• Coordinates with Rehab Department for positioning devices.
• Coordinates with the Dietician for the nutritional needs
• Coordinates with the Attending Doctors for blood values and changes in the treatment orders.
• Coordinates with the Unit Managers and Supervisors in ensuring that treatments are done, and specialized mattresses and off-loading devices are in-place.
• Makes a weekly audit for off-loading devices and special mattresses and reports to the Director of Nursing her/his findings.
• Assist the Nursing Department as needed. As per the directive of the DNS and or ADNS.