Wound Care Specialist

6 days ago


Macy, Nebraska, United States Omaha Tribe of Nebraska Full time
Job Title: Wound Care Nurse

The Omaha Tribe of Nebraska is seeking a skilled Wound Care Nurse to join our team. As a Wound Care Nurse, you will play a critical role in providing high-quality care to patients with complex wounds, ostomies, and incontinence issues.

Key Responsibilities:
  • Coordinate care with the Health Care Team to ensure treatments and plans are appropriate or if changes in care are required to provide a comprehensive plan of care.
  • Liaison between patients, families, and the Health Care Team which in turn will provide improved level of comfort and support for both patients and their families with support, guidance, and counseling.
  • Assess the unique needs of each patient to determine appropriate treatment or routine care of the patient
  • Educate patients and families on best practices to promote healing and wellness including care of ostomy, stoma, and incontinence guidelines
Scope and Duties:Wound Care:
  • Treating skin reactions
  • Preventing skin breakdown
  • Treating and managing vascular ulcers, pressure ulcer and diabetic ulcers
  • Initiating preventive measures
  • Providing comprehensive wound management, including reducing causative factors, controlling odor, assessing nutritional needs, and providing and applying topical therapies
  • Educating the patient, the patient's family, and any other support persons on care techniques
  • Assessing and treating draining wounds and fistulae
  • Implementing preventive actions to reduce the incidences of pressure ulcers and vascular ulcers
  • Providing instruction on proper wound dressing
Ostomy Care:
  • Pre- and post-operative education, support and counseling for patients who undergo surgery for colostomies, ileostomies, or urostomies.
  • Providing self-care, diet, and lifestyle education and support
  • Preventing peristomal/stomal complications
  • Providing rehabilitative care
  • Assessing stoma site marking so as to decrease long-term complications and encourage pouching system adherence
  • Reviewing and modifying pouch system problems
  • Addressing and preventing peristomal skin complications
Incontinence Care:
  • Address causative factors, restorative strategies, and lifestyle/quality of life issues due to incontinence
  • Selecting and recommending collective devices and undergarments
  • Providing instructions on pelvic muscles exercises
  • Counseling the patient, the patient's family, and other support persons on hygiene and skin care
  • Providing instruction on self-catheterization
  • Identifying contributing factors and suggesting dietary and environmental modifications
Requirements:
  • High school diploma or GED
  • Must have experience in applying professional nursing principals, procedures, and techniques to out-patients with a wide variety of health care conditions with emphasis on wound, ostomy, and continence care, including prevention and education
  • Certifications and prior experience in wound care strongly preferred.
Preferred Qualifications:
  • Certifications and prior experience in wound care strongly preferred.
  • Board certified Wound, Ostomy, and Continence degree strongly preferred. (If not certified, willing to begin the educational steps to obtain certification with an accredited college or university).
What We Offer:
  • Competitive salary and benefits package
  • Opportunities for professional growth and development
  • A supportive and collaborative work environment

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