Part Time Wound Nurse Practitioner - Alliance, OH

CareMed; Alliance (OH); On-site; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

CareMed seeks a Wound Care Nurse Practitioner to serve residents in long-term care facilities. You’ll diagnose and treat wounds, order tests, and collaborate with an interdisciplinary team to optimize patient outcomes. Ohio licensure and board certification are required; DEA is optional.

Experience with wound care products and wound VACs is preferred. The role emphasizes proactive care, documentation in EMR, and communicating changes in patient condition to nursing home staff and primary care

Qualifications

• Active, unrestricted Ohio NP license.
• Board certification in nurse practitioner.
• Experience with wound care in long-term care settings.
• Experience diagnosing and treating diabetic, arterial, venous wounds.
• Familiar with wound care products (collagens, alginates, foams, silvers).
• Experience with wound VACs and DME devices.
• Wound certification is preferred or willingness to certify.
• Experience working in a long-term care setting.
• Ability to use an EMR.
• Ability to work in an interdisciplinary care team.

Responsibilities

• Provide wound care services for long-term care patients in skilled nursing facilities.
• Prescribe medications, including controlled substances per OH law.
• Order, review, and follow up on treatments and diagnostic testing.
• Communicate with nursing home staff on changes in condition.
• Collaborate with the primary care physician.

Skills

Wound care expertise

EMR proficiency

Interdisciplinary teamwork

Diagnosing wounds (diabetic/arterial/´

Pressure injury staging

Wound VAC devices

Education

Ohio NP license

Board Certification

DEA license (Optional)

Tools

Wound VAC devices

Job description

CareMedCompany Description

CareMed Health Solutions is a facility-based team of medical providers who provide medical services to patients living in long-term care facilities. We strive to give quality care to residents while working together with the facility to carry out the best care possible. While an interdisciplinary care team provides medical care to patients in long-term care facilities, you will have the opportunity to impact in a positive way the life and wellbeing of the elderly population.

We are currently seeking Wound Care Nurse Practitioners to provide wound services to patients living in long-term care facilities.

WOUND NP ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Provide wound care services for long-term care patients residing in skilled nursing facilities.
• Prescribe appropriate medications, including controlled substances in accordance with OH Law.
• Order, review, and/or follow-up with treatments and diagnostic testing.
• Communicate with the nursing home staff on a regular and as needed to discuss changes in condition.
• and/or the care plan.
• Collaborate with the primary care physician.
  

WOUND NP QUALIFICATIONS AND EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS

• Current, unrestricted NP license in the state of Ohio.
• Board Certification.
• DEA licensure (Optional)
• Clinical background in adult, family, or geriatric specialties.
• Clinical background of wound care; including but not limited to chronic, debilitating, stalled, or infected wounds
• Must be comfortable with diagnosing and treating diabetic, arterial, venous, and mixed etiology wounds or Kennedy Ulcers.
• Must be comfortable staging pressure injuries according to the NPIAP
• Must be familiar with wound care best practice and advanced wound care products; collagens, alginates, foams, silvers, etc.
• Must have experience with wound vacs and other DME, such as pressure relieving/ reducing devices
• Strong preference to having wound certification or be open to getting certified
• Experience working in a long-term care setting.
• Ability to work with an EMR.

• Ability to work within an interdisciplinary care team to coordinate patient care

  NP BENEFITS

• Continuing education credits
• Recertification Reimbursement
• Malpractice insurance Coverage