Wound Ostomy Nurse

Texas Children's; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Texas Children's Hospital seeks a Wound Ostomy Nurse to deliver comprehensive pediatric wound and ostomy care. You will assess, plan, educate, implement, and evaluate age-appropriate care with family-centered principles and cost-conscious strategies.

Requires Texas RN licensure, CPR/BLS, and WOC nursing education; CWOCN preferred. Collaboration in rounds and documentation of outcomes are essential to support patients and families.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in nursing.
• One year nursing experience required, 3 years preferred.
• Current licensure with Texas Board of Nursing or Nursing licensure Compact.
• CPR - Basic Life Support from the American Heart Association.
• Graduate of a WOC nursing education program or enrolled in one with completion within 6 months.
• Maintains knowledge base by reading professional literature and continuing education as needed.

Responsibilities

• Performs and documents assessment of patient/family including biopsychosocial and developmental needs.
• Identifies patient teaching, discharge planning, nutritional screening, and pain management needs.
• Coordinates standards of care with the health care team and communicates them to others.
• Participates in interdisciplinary rounds or conferences to provide wound/ostomy input.
• Evaluates patient response to care and discusses progress with patient/family.
• Executes interventions per established standards and policies.
• Encourages patient/family to verbalize feelings and provides psychosocial support.
• Maintains ongoing knowledge through literature review and continuing education.
• Complies with respiratory fit testing requirements as part of safety protocol.

Skills

Psychosocial support

Patient education

Interdisciplinary collaboration

WOC nursing knowledge

Education

Bachelor's degree in nursing

Graduate of a wound ostomy continence nursing education program or WOCN-credited program

Job description

At Texas Children's Hospital, our mission starts with our people. Guided by our HEART values-Humility, Excellence, Accountability, Respect, and Trust-we strive to create a workplace where teammates feel valued, supported, and empowered to do their best work every day.

We are searching for a Wound Ostomy Nurse- to provide quality wound and ostomy nursing care to patients by assessing, planning, educating, implementing, and evaluating age-appropriate care in a manner that incorporates family centered principals and cost-effective care.

• Performs and documents assessment of the patient/family including bio-physical, psychosocial, developmental (age appropriate), cultural, spiritual, and environmental needs in an organized and systematic manner.
• Identifies patient's needs pertaining to patient teaching, discharge planning, growth and development, nutritional screening, functional status, and pain management.
• Determines which standards of care and practice apply to the patient; coordinates and communicates this information to other health care team members, in order to meet patient needs.
• Participates in interdisciplinary rounds and/or patient care conferences to provide input regarding the wound and ostomy perspective and documents in the medical record, as appropriate.
• Evaluates and documents patient's response to the care and treatments provided and recognizes the patient's progress toward meeting the desired outcomes and discusses with the patient/family.
• Executes therapeutic physician or nurse interventions according to established standards of practice and appropriate policies and procedures related to care delivery.
• Encourages patient/family to verbalize feelings (grief, frustration, etc.) and provides psychosocial support when necessary.
• Demonstrates willingness and ability to acquire new knowledge relevant to pediatric nursing and/or WONS nursing and utilize new skills needed to improve individual, team, and organizational performance.
• Maintains knowledge base by reading professional literature pertaining to specialty and completes continuing education as
• needed to maintain expertise in WOC nursing.

As part of our commitment to maintaining a safe and healthy workplace, all successful candidates will be required to undergo respiratory fit testing in compliance with occupational health and safety standards

• Bachelor's degree in nursing
• One (1) year nursing experience required, 3 years nursing experience preferred
• Current licensure with Texas Board of Nursing or Nursing licensure Compact
• CPR - Basic Life Support from the American Heart Association
• Graduate of a wound, ostomy, continence nursing education program accredited by the Wound Ostomy Continence Nurses (WOCN) Society or currently enrolled in a WOCN-credited wound, ostomy, continence program with completion of program within 6 months of assuming the role
• Maintains knowledge base by reading professional literature pertaining to specialty and completes continuing education as needed to maintain expertise in WOC nursing.
• Operate the following equipment: infusion pumps, electronic thermometers, non-invasive blood pressure, defibrillator, suction machine, cardiac monitor, scales, computers and any other role specific equipment.

Prefer CWOCN Certified Wound/Ostomy/Continence RN, but can obtain post-hire