WOUND, OSTOMY & CONTINENCE RN - F/T - DAYS

JFK Johnson Rehabilitation Institute; Hackensack (NJ); On-site; USD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading healthcare provider as a Wound, Ostomy & Continence RN. In this full-time role, you will provide specialized nursing care to patients with complex needs, collaborating with a dedicated team to enhance patient outcomes. This position offers a supportive environment focused on professional growth and quality patient care.

Benefits

Work-life balance

Collaborative work environment

Compassionate nursing culture

Mentoring programs

Substantial tuition reimbursement

Qualifications

• Active NJ State Professional Registered Nurse License required.
• Minimum of 3 years nursing experience.
• Certification in wound, ostomy, and continence care required within 18 months.

Responsibilities

• Provides evidence-based practice for patients with wounds, ostomy, or continence issues.
• Leads inter-professional teams to ensure effective patient-centered care.
• Educates nursing staff regarding care for patients with wounds, ostomy, or continence issues.

Skills

Collaborative

Courageous

Compassionate

Creative

Connected

Education

Baccalaureate degree in nursing

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

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Wound, Ostomy & Continence RN - F/T - Days

HACKENSACK UNIVERSITY MED CNTR

• Hackensack, New Jersey
  
  

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About Hackensack Meridian Health

Hackensack Meridian Health nurses care for patients and their families at every stage of life, 24 hours a day, at bedsides in 9 community hospitals, 4 academic medical centers, a behavioral health hospital, 2 children's hospitals, 2 rehabilitation hospitals, medical offices, and care facilities across the state.

Our team members are the heart of what makes us better. At Hackensack Meridian Health we help our patients live better, healthier lives — and we help one another to succeed. With a culture rooted in connection and collaboration, our employees are team members. Here, competitive benefits are just the beginning. It’s also about how we support one another and how we show up for our community. Together, we keep getting better - advancing our mission to transform healthcare and serve as a leader of positive change.

Hackensack Meridian Health is one of the most recognized health care networks in the country for nursing excellence with 7 Magnet designations. In joining our nursing team, you'll work with collaborative colleagues, who are pushing each other - and patient care - to keep getting better.

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Job Description

• Requisition # 2025-159189
• Shift Day
• Status Full Time with Benefits
  
  

Overview

Our team members are the heart of what makes us better. At Hackensack Meridian Health we help our patients live better, healthier lives — and we help one another to succeed. With a culture rooted in connection and collaboration, our employees are

team members. Here, competitive benefits are just the beginning. It’s also about how we support one another and how we show up for our community. Together, we keep getting better - advancing our mission to transform healthcare and serve as a leader of

positive change.

The Wound, Ostomy and Continence (WOC) Nurse provides evidence-based practice that incorporates a unique body of knowledge to provide excellence in prevention, health maintenance, therapeutic intervention, rehabilitative and palliative nursing care to persons with select disorders of the gastrointestinal, genitourinary, and integumentary systems. The WOC nurse directs efforts to improve quality of care to individuals of all ages directly through hands on care and indirectly as educators and consultants.

Responsibilities

• Serves as a consultant to provide insight and potential solutions for complex clinical cases to improve patient care and outcomes for patients with wounds, ostomy, or continence related issues
• Uses judgment and critical thinking skills to assess, diagnose, and identify outcomes; develop and implement an individualized care plan; and evaluate care of the patient with wounds, ostomy, or continence issues
• Uses evidence-based assessment techniques, instruments, tools, and available data and information to identify problems and needs of the patient with wounds, ostomy, or continence issues
• Leads and/or participates in inter-professional teams to communicate, collaborate, and consult effectively; and ensure that safe, effective, efficient, timely, patient-centered, and equitable care is provided for the patient with wound, ostomy, or continence issues
• Develops, evaluates, and revises processes, policies, procedures, and protocols to reflect evidence-based practice and accepted changes in care management, or to address emerging problems for patients with wounds, ostomy, or continence issues
• Develops and evaluates protocols for the prevention of hospital acquired pressure injuries
• Collaborates with Nursing Education to educate nursing staff regarding the care of patients with wounds, ostomy, or continence issues.
• Collaborates with the Department of Patient Care, Department of Quality and Patient Safety and Risk Management to monitor patients with pressure injuries
• Evaluates new products and collaborates with the Value Analysis Program to ensure product inventory is consistent with the needs of patient population and the nursing staff
• Adheres to the American Nurses Association standards
• Identifies the needs of the patient population served and modifies and delivers care that is specific to those needs (i.e., age, culture, hearing and/or visually impaired, etc.). This process includes communicating with the patient, parent, and/or primary caregiver(s) at their level (developmental/age, educational, literacy, etc.)
• Adheres to the standards identified in the Medical Center's Organizational Competencies
  
  

Qualifications

• Active NJ State Professional Registered Nurse License
• Graduate of a NLN/AACN accredited program in nursing, minimum baccalaureate degree
• AHA Basic Health Care Life Support HCP Certification
• Minimum of 3 years nursing experience
• Certification by the WOC Nursing Certification Board (WOCNCB) in wound, ostomy and continence care required or must be obtained within 18 months of employment
• Experience in nursing education; able to write and present oral presentations
• Experience in performance improvement and/or quality initiatives
• Knowledge of Microsoft Office (Word, Power Point, and Excel)
• Maintains WOCNCB certification every 5 years
  
  

HACKENSACK MERIDIAN HEALTH (HMH) IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, color, creed, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, breastfeeding, genetic information, refusal to submit to a genetic test or make available to an employer the results of a genetic test, atypical hereditary cellular or blood trait, national origin, nationality, ancestry, disability, marital status, liability for military service, or status as a protected veteran.

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Hackensack Meridian Health (HMH) is a Mandatory Influenza Vaccination Facility

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, color, creed, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, breastfeeding, genetic information, refusal to submit to a genetic test or make available to an employer the results of a genetic test, atypical hereditary cellular or blood trait, national origin, nationality, ancestry, disability, marital status, liability for military service, or status as a protected veteran.

As a courtesy to assist you in your job search, we would like to send your resume to other areas of our Hackensack Meridian Health network who may have current openings that fit your skills and experience.

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Benefits

• workplace excellence
• collaborative work environment
• work-life balance
• compassionate nursing culture
• mentoring programs
• substantial tuition reimbursement
  
  

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Eric

Gossar Assistant Nurse Manager, Critical Care Unit

Southern Ocean Medical Center

To be a newer nurse and become an assistant manager of a critical care unit speaks to the opportunities Hackensack Meridian Health can provide. Also, the teamwork and team members I have been exposed to here are second to none."

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