RN - Wound Care - PRN

RN - Wound Care - PRN

Core Functions

• Assigns, delegates, and supervises patient care activities.
• Performs comprehensive wound assessments and delivers appropriate wound care treatments, including specialty dressings.
• Assists physicians during wound care procedures and anticipates clinical needs.
• Administers prescribed PO, IV, and IM medications accurately and documents appropriately.
• Provides emergency patient care when needed.
• Educates patients and families about wound care, infection prevention, signs of complications, and ongoing treatment expectations.
• Delivers discharge instructions and verifies patient/family understanding.
• Documents all education using appropriate methods and formats
• Obtains physician orders prior to patient evaluation and communicates with interdisciplinary teams to ensure continuity of care.
• Notifies leadership of pre-certification requirements and changes in patient or wound status that may require referral.
• Ensures accurate, timely documentation using approved forms and abbreviations.
• Maintains familiarity with hospital policies, departmental procedures, and interdepartmental workflows.
• Follows infection control and safety guidelines, including local fire and safety regulations.
• Participates in performance improvement initiatives and assists with data collection and analysis.
• Conducts chart audits and assists with chart completion upon patient discharge.
• Keeps required competencies, skills checklists, and continuing education files up to date
• Ensures patient care and treatment areas are clean, organized, and adequately stocked.
• Controls traffic flow in treatment areas to maintain patient safety and privacy.
• Demonstrates proficiency with wound care equipment.
• Reports equipment issues promptly.
• Follows established procedures for obtaining and accurately charging patient care supplies.
• Maintains awareness of patient conditions, wound progression, and external factors affecting healing.
• Provides care tailored to the developmental and physical needs of patients across the lifespan, from pediatric to geriatric populations.

Safety Practices

• Promotes a culture of patient safety which results in the identification and reduction of unsafe practices.
• Utilizes Culture of Safety survey responses in improvement efforts.
• Identifies risks and hazards to patients through various risk assessments, with actions taken to mitigate patient harm.
• Improves medication safety practices, including increased reporting of adverse drug events and improved compliance with the medication reconciliation process
• Decreased, hospital-acquired infections and improved compliance with infection control practices (including hand hygiene)
• Decreased hospital acquired conditions such as complications associated with ventilator use and pressure ulcers, through improved compliance with patient safety bundles and/or other formal performance improvement programs.
• Manages and operates equipment safely and correctly.
• Demonstrates understanding of suicide prevention and patient restraints for sitting assignments of 1:1 care, frequent checks and continuous observation of patients.

Professional Responsibility

• Maintains neat, clean, and professional appearance in accordance with dress code standards.
• Completes all required annual education and training.
• Protects patient confidentiality and adheres to all privacy requirements.
• Reports to work as scheduled, on time, and completes tasks within designated timeframes.
• Consistently completes and maintains assigned duties and responsibilities.
• Wears proper identification while on duty and uses time‑tracking systems correctly.
• Attends required annual reviews and scheduled department in‑services.
• Attends required staff meetings and reviews all monthly meeting minutes.
• Follows all hospital policies, standards, and confidentiality guidelines.
• Represents the organization positively and professionally at all times.
• Actively participates in performance improvement and quality initiatives.
• Complies with all organizational ethical and business practice policies.
• Communicates and upholds the mission, values, ethics, and goals of the facility.