RN / REGISTERED NURSE - INPATIENT WOUND CARE OSTOMY NURSE

Beebe Healthcare; Lewes (DE); On-site; USD 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Beebe Healthcare seeks a Wound Care Ostomy Nurse to provide specialized care in a community-focused environment. This role involves managing treatment plans, collaborating across disciplines, and fostering patient education, all while upholding high standards of care. Join a team dedicated to healing and transforming lives in a coastal community.

Benefits

Tuition Assistance up to $5,250

Paid Time Off

Long Term Sick accrual

Employer Contribution Plan

Free Short and Long-Term Disability for Full Time employees

Zero copay for drugs on prescription plan for certain conditions

Life Insurance

Employee Assistance Program

Pet Insurance

Qualifications

• 2 years experience in specialty practice area.
• Experience in Patient Education.
• WOCN Certification or must obtain certification within 15 months of hire.

Responsibilities

• Evaluates and manages plan of care for individuals with wound and ostomy problems.
• Documents patient care thoroughly and accurately to meet regulatory requirements.
• Collaborates with other healthcare professionals within area of expertise.

Skills

Clear Communication Skills

Customer Service Skills

Knowledge Of Electronic Health Records

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Nursing

Job description

Why Beebe?

Become part of the Beebe team - an inclusive team positioned in a vibrant, coastal community. Enjoy a fulfilling career as you support the health of our patients and a team focused on excellence.

Join our Nursing Team and Cultivate your Career:At Beebe, we care about your professional nursing path and want to foster the growth and development of your career. Whether you decide to further your education, gain professional certifications, learn a new specialty area, educate or lead – we support it all. We do so by offering a nursing graduate residency program, clinical ladder, professional certification reimbursement, certification preparation curriculums, generous tuition assistance, flexible scheduling and shared governance where you can help guide nursing professional practice and have a voice as a bedside nurse.

Benefits

In addition to competitive compensation and wellness benefits (medical, dental, vision and prescription) Beebe Healthcare also offers:

• Tuition Assistance up to $5,250
• Paid Time Off
• Long Term Sick accrual
• Employer Contribution Plan
• Free Short and Long-Term Disability for Full Time employees
• Zero copay for drugs on prescription plan for certain conditions
• College Bound 529 Savings Plan
• Life Insurance
• Beebe Perks via WorkAdvantage
• Employee Assistance Program
• Pet Insurance

Overview

Elevate Healing, Empower Lives

Join a team where expert care meets compassion. As a Wound Care Ostomy Nurse at Beebe Healthcare, you’ll serve as a vital clinical resource, delivering expert consultation and management for individuals with ostomies, fistulas, complex wounds, and skin integrity challenges. Working closely with patients across our community—primarily adults and geriatrics—you will provide specialized, direct care that promotes healing, comfort, and quality of life.

In this impactful role, you'll collaborate across disciplines to support individualized treatment plans, educate patients and caregivers, and uphold the highest standards in wound and skin care. Your work will reflect and reinforce the mission and values of both Beebe Medical Center and the Wound Care Services Department.

Make a difference where your skills matter most—where your expertise not only promotes healing, but transforms lives.

Responsibilities

• Evaluates and manages plan of care for individuals with wound and ostomy problems in the outpatient setting, inpatient setting, and BMC community as scheduled.
• Implements, evaluates and revises standards of care and clinical practice protocols for wound and ostomy management.
• Documents patient care thoroughly and accurately to meet regulatory requirements.
• Participates in monitoring and evaluation activities which assess and improve nursing practice and patient outcomes.
• Utilizes problem solving skills to identify emerging patient care problems.
• Participates in quality improvement programs.
• Collaborates with other team members to identify and address causative and contributing factors to skin breakdown as well as systematic factors affecting wound healing.
• Designs a multidisciplinary plan of care that provides for optimal patient outcomes. Provides education to patients, the community and other health care providers as deemed necessary and/or appropriate.
• Collaborates with acute care, home care and others in the Beebe Medical Center network in implementation and evaluation of the plan of care.
• Serves as a resource to other Beebe Medical Center health care professionals within area of expertise.
• Participates in new technology and product evaluation as requested.
• Participates actively in Beebe Medical Center committees and meetings as deemed appropriate by supervisor.
• Maintains membership in and participates in professional organizations.
• Maintains current knowledge base by participating in a minimum of 10 hours of wound or ostomy continuing education (to include a minimum of 3 hours in ostomy) as approved by supervisor annually.
• Performs other duties within the scope of practice as designated by supervisor.

Qualifications

• 2 years experience in specialty practice area.
• Experience in Patient Education.
• Demonstrates good oral and written communication skills.
• Demonstrates emotional maturity and stability.
• Demonstrates commitment to quality patient care.
• WOCN Certification or must obtain certification within 15 months of hire.

Competencies Skills

Essential:* Clear Communication Skills Both Written And Verbal* Able To Keep Confidential Information Regarding Patients, Team Members* Able To Withstand Crisis Situations* Has Skills To Provides Customer Service To Patients, Team Members And Visitors* Knowledge And Experience With Electronic Health Records

Credentials

Essential:* RN - Registered Nurse* BLS - Basic Life Saving certification

Nonessential:* CWOCN - Cert Wound/Ostomy RN

Education

Essential:* Bachelor's Degree in Nursing (Magnet Recognition)

Entry

USD $38.00/Hr.

Max

USD $62.70/Hr.