Unit Manager (Wound Care Nurse)

Garden Healthcare; Cleveland (OH); On-site; USD 65,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

Euclid Beach Nursing & Rehab Center in Cleveland, OH is seeking a compassionate Wound Care Nurse to work with the DON to support the nursing department in our rehabilitation and skilled nursing facility.

The role emphasizes ensuring high-quality resident care, infection prevention, and adherence to regulations. You will bring a valid Ohio nursing license, an Associate degree or higher, and several years of wound care experience to help drive patient outcomes.

Qualifications

• Strong interpersonal communication skills for interactions with patients, families, physicians, and staff.
• Licensed registered nurse in Ohio (OH) active.

Responsibilities

• Ensure nursing personnel comply with standards, practices, and regulatory requirements for high-quality resident care.
• Support development and implementation of nursing department budgets with facility administration.
• Implement compliance and quality improvement policies and procedures.
• Surveillance, rounding, analyzing and reporting healthcare-associated infections.
• Develop infection prevention policies meeting state, federal, and accrediting standards.
• Lead infection prevention initiatives and act as a resource and educator.

Skills

Interpersonal communication

Education

Associate degree in Nursing or higher

Job description

Euclid Beach Nursing & Rehab Center is seeking a compassionate and professionalWound Care Nurseto work in coordination with the DON to support the nursing department functions of our rehabilitation and skilled nursing facility. As a Wound Nurse, you can take advantage of a unique opportunity to help us reach our goal of becoming a premier facility.

RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE WOUND CARE NURSE:

• Ensure that all nursing personnel in our facility comply with established standards, practices, and regulatory requirements for the highest quality of resident care.
• Support the development and implementation of nursing department budgets in coordination with the facility administration.
• Implementing compliance and quality improvement policies, programs and procedures.
• Is responsible for surveillance, rounding, analyzing, interpreting and the reporting of healthcare-associated infections
• Supports the development of evidence-based organizational infection prevention policies/standards that meet state, federal, regulatory and accrediting agencies standard
• Leads in infection prevention and serves as a resource, educator, researcher and proponent of change in order to influence infection prevention improvement to provide quality health care within the organization

REQUIREMENTS OF WOUND CARE NURSE:

• As the Wound Nurse, you must possess strong interpersonal communication skills and the ability to deal effectively with patients, families, physicians, community resources, and the general public.
• Associate degree in Nursing or higher from an accredited school of nursing.
• Must have a valid OH Nursing license
• Minimum 3 years’ experience as a Wound Nurse preferred, Unit Manager/Nursing Supervisor in Long Term Care experience may be considered