RN Wound Care

apartment Dignity Health location_onLong Beach, CA 90813, US

Job Summary and Responsibilities

As our Registered Nurse (RN), you will be a pivotal healthcare professional, delivering compassionate, high-quality care that truly impacts our patients' well-being and recovery.

Every day, you will leverage your expertise to provide individualized, comprehensive care, making critical assessments, performing skilled procedures, and meticulously implementing patient care plans. You'll collaborate seamlessly within an interdisciplinary team, contributing to a dynamic environment focused on optimal patient outcomes.

To thrive in this vital role, you will possess keen assessment skills, acute critical thinking, and a patient-first mindset, driven by a profound enthusiasm to help others. Your sense of urgency and dedication to excellence in a fast-paced environment will not only support patient recovery but also fuel your own career advancement.

Demonstrates ability to assess/interpret age-specific data.
Encourages involvement of patient/family/significant other in decision making related to plan of care.
Independently assesses, plans, implements and evaluates the wound care of patients.
Documents skin condition on progress notes and on skin assessment record.
Observes the wound care of other nursing team members and assumes a resource and clinical education role.
Gives direction to staff members related to the wound care of residents.

Job Requirements

Required

Clinical II or III RN with extensive wound care experience.
Associate Of Nursing
Registered Nurse: CA
Basic Life Support - CPR
Advanced Cardiac Life Support
Certified Wound Care Nurse or Certified Wound Ostomy Nurse, upon hire

Preferred

Courses in wound care, upon hire and
Bachelors Of Nursing, upon hire

Where You'll Work

CommonSpirit Health was formed by the alignment of Catholic Health Initiatives (CHI) and Dignity Health. With more than 700 care sites across the U.S., from clinics and hospitals to home-based care and virtual care services, CommonSpirit is accessible to nearly one out of every four U.S. residents. Our world needs compassion like never before. Our communities need caring and our families need protection. With our combined resources, CommonSpirit is committed to building healthy communities, advocating for those who are poor and vulnerable, and innovating how and where healing can happen, both inside our hospitals and out in the community.

One Community. One Mission. One California

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