**Job Summary and Responsibilities**
As our Wound Care Nurse, you will specialize in comprehensive wound and ostomy care. You will elevate care quality, optimize patient outcomes, and ensure cost-effective management.
Every day you will provide expert consultation and direct care for complex wounds. You'll assess, plan, and evaluate individualized care, educate patients/staff on best practices, monitor outcomes, and ensure protocol adherence.
To be successful in this role, you will demonstrate strong critical thinking, communication, and a commitment to evidence-based practice.
+ Performs routine physical/psychosocial assessment to collect basic data, follows the written plan of care, standards, practice guidelines and utilizes pathways
+ Formulates a plan of care for individual needs, including cultural/ethical/spiritual needs. Participates in the planning of routine transitional health care needs which includes treatment options and patient placement options
+ Adapts planned educational programs and information to individual patients and family by modifying teaching strategies or content. Integrates education during the delivery of patient care
+ Ensures efficiency in the delivery of care to determine immediate priorities and to offer solutions for problems
+ Makes independent clinical decisions based on knowledge drawn from education and experience
+ Actively advocates for patient rights and identifies potential conflict. Seeks counsel for resolution of conflict
**Job Requirements**
**Required:**
+ Associate Of Nursing, upon hire or
+ Recent, 1-year wound care nurse experience
+ Registered Nurse: CA, upon hire
+ Basic Life Support - CPR, upon hire
+ Certified Wound Care Nurse
**Preferred:**
+ Bachelors Of Nursing, upon hire
+ Recent, 3-years wound care nurse experience
Where You'll Work
Mercy Medical Center Redding offers comprehensive health care to nearly 300,000 residents in a six-county region. It is one of only two Level II trauma centers, the only Level III Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) and the only Joint Commission-certified Advanced Thrombectomy-Capable Stroke Center north of Sacramento north of Sacramento. Mercy Medical Center Redding is a 266-bed regional medical center providing inpatient and outpatient services as well as specialized cardiovascular care, stroke care, orthopedics, neurological surgery, comprehensive cancer care, maternity care, and a robust robotic surgery program. In addition, the hospital’s network of care includes Mercy Home Health and Hospice and Dignity Health Connected Living.
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**Pay Range**
$57.70 - $78.42 /hour
We are an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer.