Wound Care Specialist
4 days ago
SSM Health is seeking a highly skilled Wound Care Specialist to join our team. As a key member of our healthcare team, you will be responsible for implementing and evaluating our wound and ostomy evidence-based care and prevention program to achieve exceptional clinical outcomes.
Key Responsibilities- Evaluate patients of all ages who are consulted and/or referred by medical staff, nursing staff, and other healthcare disciplines for wound, ostomy, and continence-related needs.
- Collaborate with healthcare providers to allow for timely assessment and inter-professional interventions.
- Develop, communicate, implement, and document a care plan for patients with wound, ostomy, continence issues, and/or are at high risk for skin breakdown.
- Perform pre-operative stoma site marking for urinary and fecal diversions and conservative sharp instrumental debridement and chemical cautery with provider order.
- Design and implement wound, ostomy, continence-related information and patient education appropriate to the patient/family/caregiver's developmental level, learning needs, learning readiness, and cultural values/beliefs.
- Coordinate education with physician and nursing staff and other members of the healthcare team.
- Develop and document discharge plan including follow-up as it relates to wound, ostomy, and continence needs and communicates with patient/family/caregiver and appropriate nursing, physician, and care management staff.
- Utilize research and other forms of evidence to develop, implement, and evaluate ministry and system-wide policies, procedures, and standards of practice relating to wound, ostomy, and continence issues.
- Participate in ministry and system-wide evaluation of resource utilization as it pertains to wound, ostomy, and continence products, formulary development, support services, and other medical devices.
- Participate in the education of all members of the healthcare team as it relates to the management of wounds, ostomies, and continence.
- Graduate of accredited school of nursing or education equivalency for licensing.
- No experience required.
- 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.
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