Registered Nurse - Wound Care

Inova Health System; Annandale (VA); On-site; USD 37,000 - 57,000; Part time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider is seeking a dedicated Registered Nurse Wound Care to join their team part-time. The role involves comprehensive patient assessments, individualized care planning, and advocating for patient rights. Benefits include health coverage, retirement matching, and education assistance. The position is based in Annandale, VA, requiring a Bachelor's or Associate's degree in Nursing and at least one year of RN experience.

Benefits

Medical, Dental and Vision Coverage

Retirement Matching

Tuition and Student Loan Assistance

Mental Health Support

Flexible Work Schedules

Qualifications

• 1 year of experience as a Registered Nurse.
• Basic Life Support certification from American Heart Association.

Responsibilities

• Performs comprehensive patient health assessments.
• Formulates individualized plans of care.
• Documents all patient care activities.

Skills

Patient Advocacy

Communication

Clinical Decision Making

Education

Bachelor's Degree Nursing

Associate's Degree Nursing

Job description

Inova Wound Healing Center-Woodburn is looking for a dedicated Registered Nurse Wound Care to join the team. This role will be part-time, 3-days per week (24 hours/week) - Mondays, Tuesdays, & Wednesdays (may be flexible). To learn more about our Wound Healing Centers, visit https://www.inova.org/our-services/inova-wound-healing-centers.

Inova is consistently ranked a national healthcare leader in safety, quality and patient experience.We are also proud to be consistently recognized as a top employer in both the D.C. metro area and the nation.

Featured Benefits:

• Committed to Team Member Health: offering medical, dental and vision coverage, and a robust team member wellness program.


• Retirement: Inova matches the first 5% of eligible contributions - starting on your first day.


• Tuition and Student Loan Assistance: offeringup to $5,250 per year in education assistance and up to $10,000 for student loans.


• Mental Health Support: offering all Inova team members, their spouses/partners, and their children 25 mental health coaching or therapy sessions, per person, per year, at no cost.


• Work/Life Balance: offeringpaid time off, paid parental leave, flexible work schedules, and remote and hybrid career opportunities.

Registered Nurse Wound Care Job Responsibilities:

• Performs comprehensive patient health assessments by interpreting multiple data sets and synthesizing their interrelationships


• Formulates individualized plans of care based on assessment findings and interpreting trends in patient populations to achieve best practice


• Conducts all patient care in a patient and family centered manner, integrating knowledge, skills and experiences to meet the needs of patients and families throughout the continuum of care


• Advocates for patients' rights from the patient and family perspective and provides counsel while acting as a resource to resolve issues


• Accesses resources from all disciplines to achieve desired patient outcomes and coordinates healthcare and alternate services for patient/family transition planning


• Documents all patient care activities, as per documentation standards, and assists healthcare team members with documentation


• Evaluates the process to achieve outcomes, anticipates patient variances and makes revisions to plans of care


• Makes clinical decisions based on experience, patient population data and intuition while promoting the development of clinical decision making of all team members


• Communicates effectively, works cooperatively with others, and has respect for and an understanding of other clinical disciplines


• Assists staff to assess patients' learning needs and outcomes measurement of patient education


• Provides direction and guidance to others regarding practice while serving as a clinical resource, preceptor, and mentor and delegates patient care activities and coordinates unit activities as needed


• Utilizes standards, guidelines and pathways for care delivery and ensures that the process for delivery of care is synthesized from direct patient/family communication, technology and other healthcare team member collaboration


• Demonstrates evidence of self-development by obtaining a minimum of six formal contact hours and maintains own Team Member Continuing Education Record


• Evaluates clinical and quality outcomes and contributes to performance improvement initiatives


• May perform additional duties as assigned

Registered Nurse Wound Care Additional Requirements:

• Work schedule: Part-time,3-days per week (24 hours/week) - Mondays, Tuesdays, & Wednesdays (may be flexible)


• Work Location: Inova Wound Healing Center-Woodburn. 3299 Woodburn Road, Suite 180, Annadale, VA, 22003


• Education: Bachelor's Degree Nursing or Associate's Degree. If RN has an Associate's Degree, within 2 years of date of hire, they must meet with their nurse leader and conduct the following: 1.) Identify which accredited school they plan to attend 2.) Provide a written plan with anticipated BSN completion date 3.) Submit a review of transcripts from the school indicating the required pre-requisites and timeline for taking the courses 4.) Complete BSN within 5 years of start date.


• Experience: 1 year of experience as a Registered Nurse


• Certification: Basic Life Support from the American Heart Association; Licensed or eligible for licensure in the Commonwealth of Virginia as a Registered Nurse or an active multi-state Registered Nurse license

Registered Nurse Wound Care Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience: 1 year of acute care experience as a RN. Wound care experience.