About This Role
This nursing position focuses on providing specialized wound consultation and collaborating with healthcare professionals to develop, implement, and ensure continuity of individualized treatment plans. The role involves working across the continuum of care to support patient education, self-management, and satisfaction.
Responsibilities
- Be responsible and accountable for all elements of the nursing process when providing and/or supervising direct patient care
- Assess, plan, implement, and evaluate care based on skin and wound etiology
- Assume responsibility for the coordination of care focused on patient education, self-management, and customer satisfaction throughout the continuum of care
- Administer medications and procedures per established policies and guidelines
- Influence care outcomes by collaborating with members of the interdisciplinary team
- Execute position responsibilities that demonstrate leadership, experience, and creative approaches to management of complex client care
- Coordinate care by serving as an expert clinician and patient/resident advocate in wound management (which may include ostomy and continence care)
- Provide leadership based on an interprofessional approach to wound care to ensure implementation of effective treatment strategies and decisions
- Coordinate with local quality management/improvement and/or safety team, Interprofessional Pressure Injury/skin Committee (IPIC) and other specialty service lines to monitor and report data (pressure injury/wound) and quality reports
- Identify programmatic steps to reduce risk and incidence of pressure injuries
- Participate in the administration of education to all clinical staff to support the delivery of current, evidenced based care to assure consistency, uniformity, and quality of care
- Monitor effectiveness of education provided and assure evidence-based current content of education
Requirements
- U.S. Citizenship; non-citizens may only be appointed when it is not possible to recruit qualified citizens in accordance with VA Policy
- Subject to urinalysis to screen for illegal drug use prior to appointment
- Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959
- Subject to background/security investigation
- Complete an online onboarding process
- Pass pre-employment physical evaluation
- Participate in the seasonal influenza vaccination program
- May be required to serve a probationary period
- Complete all application requirements detailed in the "Required Documents" section of this announcement
- English Language Proficiency in basic written and spoken English
- Graduate of a school of professional nursing approved by the appropriate accrediting agency and accredited by one of the following accrediting bodies at the time the program was completed by the applicant: The Accreditation Commission for Education in Nursing (ACEN) or The Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE)
