Staff Nurse - RN - Wound and Enterostomal jobs in Louisiana

Staff Nurse - RN - Wound and Enterostomal aids hospital staff and physicians in the care of patients with stomas, draining wounds, fistulae, incontinence, or potential or actual tissue trauma. Manages patients with post-operative surgical wounds requiring packing or negative pressure wound therapy (NPWT), pressure ulcers and vascular ulcers. Being an Staff Nurse - RN - Wound and Enterostomal provides support and education to patients and their families, including pre and post-operative teaching, wound care, ostomy care, and ostomy appliance maintenance/trouble-shooting. Requires a RN license and typically requires CWOCN, CWS, or CWCA certification. Additionally, Staff Nurse - RN - Wound and Enterostomal typically requires a bachelor's degree in nursing. Typically reports to a supervisor or manager. Staff Nurse - RN - Wound and Enterostomal's years of experience requirement may be unspecified. Certification and/or licensing in the position's specialty is the main requirement. (Copyright 2024 Salary.com)

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RN - Enterostomal Therapy (PRN)
  • Baton Rouge General
  • Baton Rouge, LA FULL_TIME
  • JOB PURPOSE OR MISSION: To improve the quality of life of patients and families by coordinating patient care processes of assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation in collaboration with the patient, family, physician, and appropriate support services for the age population served, as defined in the department’s scope of service.

    PERFORMANCE CRITERIA

    CRITERIA A: Everyday Excellence Values - Employee demonstrates Everyday Excellence values in the day-to-day performance of their job.

    PERFORMANCE STANDARDS:
    • Demonstrates courtesy and caring to each other, patients and their families, physicians, and the community.
    • Takes initiative in living our Everyday Excellence values and vital signs.
    • Takes initiative in identifying customer needs before the customer asks.
    • Participates in teamwork willingly and with enthusiasm.
    • Demonstrates respect for the dignity and privacy needs of customers through personal action and attention to the environment of care.
    • Keeps customers informed, answers customer questions and anticipates information needs of customers.


    CRITERIA B: Corporate Compliance - Employee demonstrates commitment to the Code of Conduct, Conflict of Interest Guidelines, and the GHS Corporate Compliance Guidelines.

    PERFORMANCE STANDARDS:
    • Practices diligence in fulfilling the regulatory and legal requirements of the position and department.
    • Maintains accurate and reliable patient/organizational records.
    • Maintains professional relationships with appropriate officials; communicates honesty and completely; behaves in a fair and nondiscriminatory manner in all professional contacts.

    CRITERIA C: Personal Achievement - Employee demonstrates initiative in achieving work goals and meeting personal objectives.

    PERFORMANCE STANDARDS:
    • Uses accepted procedures and practices to complete assignments. Uses creative and proactive solutions to achieve objectives even when workload and demands are high.
    • Adheres to high moral principles of honesty, loyalty, sincerity, and fairness.

    • Upholds the ethical standards of the organization.


    CRITERIA D: Performance Improvement - Employee actively participates in Performance Improvement activities and incorporates quality improvement standards in his/her job performance.

    PERFORMANCE STANDARDS:
    • Optimizes talents, skills, and abilities in achieving excellence in meeting and exceeding customer expectations.
    • Initiates or redesigns to continuously improve work processes.
    • Contributes ideas and suggestions to improve approaches to work processes.
    • Willingly participates in organization and/or department quality initiatives.


    CRITERIA E: Cost Management - Employee demonstrates effective cost management practices.

    PERFORMANCE STANDARDS
    • Effectively manages time and resources
    • Makes conscious effort to effectively utilize the resources of the organization — material, human, and financial.
    • Consistently looks for and uses resource saving processes.

    CRITERIA F: Patient & Employee Safety - Employee actively participates in and demonstrates effective patient and employee safety practices.

    PERFORMANCE STANDARDS:
    • Employee effectively communicates, demonstrates, coordinates and emphasizes patient and employee safety.
    • Employee proactively reports errors, potential errors, injuries or potential injuries.
    • Employee demonstrates departmental specific patient and employee safety standards at all times.
    • Employee demonstrates the use of proper safety techniques, equipment and devices and follows safety policies, procedures and plans.

    JOB FUNCTIONS

    ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS include, but are not limited to:

    1. Coordinates patient assessment through collection of patient’s health data.

    PERFORMANCE STANDARDS:
    • Prioritizes data collection based on the patient’s immediate condition or needs.
    • Performs ongoing and systematic comprehensive physical and psychosocial assessments.
    • Involves the patient, significant others and health care providers as appropriate.
    • Performs functional, nutritional and other screenings and ensures triggers are complete.
    • Identifies and coordinates the need for further assessment by discipline.
    • Documents patient care assessments in the medical record.


    2. Analyzes patient assessments to determine nursing diagnoses and identifies expected outcomes.

    PERFORMANCE STANDARDS:
    • Determines nursing diagnoses using assessment data.
    • Identifies patient outcomes based on the nursing diagnoses.
    • Outcomes are prioritized based on the patent’s condition and needs.
    • Nursing diagnoses and outcomes are documented in the medical record.
    • Triage assessment on all patients and follows protocols according to established department guidelines and policies.
    • Demonstrates ability to proficiently assess patients in every age group.
    • Demonstrates proficiency in the management of patients receiving Procedural Sedation.

    3. Coordinates an interdisciplinary plan of care that prescribes interventions to attain expected outcomes.

    PERFORMANCE STANDARDS:
    • Collaborates with appropriate disciplines and integrates various assessments to formulate an individualized plan of care based on patient needs and current nursing practice standards.
    • Reviews and updates the plan of care as the patient condition changes, at least every day.
    • Documents the plan of care in the medical record.


    4. Implements the interventions identified in the plan of care.

    PERFORMANCE STANDARDS:
    • Collaborates with the interdisciplinary health care team to deliver direct patient care utilizing nursing practice standards, and universal blood and body fluid precautions.
    • Uses interventions that are consistent with the patient’s plan of care.
    • Maintains patient rights.
    • Ensures that patients receive the appropriate treatments and medications in a timely manner.
    • Delegates patient care to other members of the health care team; ensures the delegated task(s) are within the scope of practice of the assigned individual and maintains oversight and accountability.
    • Coordinates direct patient care from appropriate support services.
    • Provides individualized patient education to patient and families.
    • Collaborates with the interdisciplinary team to plan patient discharge.
    • Documents all treatments, medications, patient/family education and ongoing assessments.

    5. Evaluates the patient’s progress toward attainment of outcomes.

    PERFORMANCE STANDARDS:
    • Performs ongoing and systematic reassessment according to department standard or more frequently based on patient condition.
    • Revises nursing diagnoses, outcomes and plan of care based on reassessments.
    • Involves the patient, significant others and healthcare team in the evaluation and update of plan of care as appropriate.
    • Evaluates the effectiveness of treatments, medications and patient teaching.

    6. Performs patient assessment, develops plan of care and implements treatments for patients with selected disorders.

    PERFORMANCE STANDARDS:
    • Obtains accurate assessment data through physical assessment, patient and/or significant other interview and review of medical record.
    • Ensures patient care plan is individualized and compliments plan of care.
    • Determines patient’s response to interventions and modifies plan of care accordingly.
    • Identifies potential discharge needs at time of initial assessment.

    7. Serves as primary educator for patients/significant others and staff regarding W.O.C. issues.

    PERFORMANCE STANDARDS:
    • Educates patient, significant other, and staff regarding W.O.C. needs in order to facilitate complete rehabilitation through independence and self-care.
    • Develops discharge plans and referrals if needed, based on continuing assessment of patient’s progress.


    8. Demonstrates proficiency and knowledge base of ostomy, wound, and continence management.

    PERFORMANCE STANDARDS:
    • Documents assessment data in hospital record according to organization policy and procedure.
    • Demonstrates understanding of functions and uses of wound, ostomy, and continence products, or knows how to obtain that information.
    • Provides education and information to patients, their family, nursing staff, and physicians regarding wound, ostomy, and continence care to facilitate return towards independence and self care.


    EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS
    1 year clinical RN experience required.

    EDUCATIONAL REQUIREMENTS
    Graduation from an accredited WOCN program preferred; WOCN certification within 18 months of employment.

    SPECIAL SKILL, LICENSE AND KNOWLEDGE REQUIREMENTS
    Current Louisiana RN licensure


    HIPAA REQUIREMENTS:
    Maintains knowledge of and adherence to all applicable HIPAA regulations appropriate to Job Position including but not limited to: Medical records without limitation both paper and electronic, patient demographics, lab and radiology results, patient information related to surgery or appointment schedules, information related to patient location, religious beliefs and/or public health records.

    SAFETY REQUIREMENTS:
    Maintains knowledge of and adherence to all applicable safety practices appropriate to Job Position including but not limited to: Incident reporting, handling of wastes, sharps and linen, PPE, exposure control plans, hand washing, environment of care, patient identification, and monitors clinical alarms.

  • 23 Days Ago

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RN - Enterostomal Therapy (PRN)
  • GENERAL HEALTH SYSTEM
  • Baton Rouge, LA FULL_TIME
  • JOB PURPOSE OR MISSION: To improve the quality of life of patients and families by coordinating patient care processes of assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation in collaboration with the ...
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RN - Enterostomal Therapy, New Grads welcome!
  • Baton Rouge General Medical Center - Mid City
  • Baton Rouge, LA FULL_TIME
  • JOB PURPOSE OR MISSION: To improve the quality of life of patients and families by coordinating patient care processes of assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation in collaboration with the ...
  • 2 Days Ago

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Wound Care Nurse RN
  • Cornerstone Specialty Hospitals West Monroe
  • West Monroe, LA OTHER
  • DescriptionCornerstone is committed to a culture of service excellence as demonstrated by our employees’ adherence to the service excellence principles of Pride, Teamwork, Compassion, Integrity, Respe...
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RN Wound Care Nurse
  • Cypress at Lake Providence
  • Providence, LA PART_TIME,FULL_TIME
  • Wound Care RN – Starting at $30 per Hour – Full-time or Part-time!Want to Become Certified? We Will Assist You! Cypress at Lake Providence is proud to be rated 4-Stars in Quality of Resident Care and ...
  • 1 Day Ago

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RN Wound Care Nurse
  • Metairie Health Care Center
  • Metairie, LA FULL_TIME
  • Metairie Health Care Center is a Long-term Care Skilled Nursing Facility seeking RN Wound Care Nurses. Certification is preferred. We have standard 8 hour shifts. We pay weekend, evening and night dif...
  • 1 Month Ago

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Staff Nurse
  • Harbor Health ESP
  • Boston, MA
  • OFFERING A $5000 SIGN-ON BONUS! * Harbor Health Services is an innovative, growing, mission-based organization that live...
  • 3/29/2024 12:00:00 AM

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Staff Nurse
  • Arista Healthcare
  • Naperville, IL
  • Arista Healthcare - Staff Nurse WITH ROOM TO GROW Interest on our part is to have a nurse who performs care with a smile...
  • 3/28/2024 12:00:00 AM

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Staff Nurse
  • Diamond Preventive Care, Inc.
  • El Monte, CA
  • Job Description Job Description We are seeking a Staff Nurse to join our team! You will be responsible for the assessmen...
  • 3/27/2024 12:00:00 AM

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Staff Nurse
  • The Brooklyn Hospital Center
  • Brooklyn, NY
  • * Graduate from an accredited School of Nursing * Bachelor's Degree in Nursing from an accredited colleges or universiti...
  • 3/27/2024 12:00:00 AM

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Staff Nurse
  • Manhattanview Healthcare Center
  • Union City, NJ
  • Manhattanview Healthcare Center - Manhattanview Healthcare Center is looking for Staff Nurse.
  • 3/27/2024 12:00:00 AM

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Staff Nurse
  • Berkshire Health Systems
  • Pittsfield, MA
  • DEFINITION/PRIMARY FUNCTIONS Registered Nurse is the designation given to an individual who is licensed to practice prof...
  • 3/26/2024 12:00:00 AM

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Staff Nurse, OR
  • Valley Ambulatory Surgery Center - St. Charles
  • Saint Charles, IL
  • A Registered Nurse is a professional who provides patient care based upon the nursing process; being effectively involve...
  • 3/26/2024 12:00:00 AM

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Staff Nurse
  • Great Salt Plains Health Center
  • Cherokee, OK
  • Job Description Job Description We are looking for a staff nurse for our Cherokee location! We Offer: - 100% paid premiu...
  • 3/26/2024 12:00:00 AM

Louisiana is bordered to the west by Texas; to the north by Arkansas; to the east by Mississippi; and to the south by the Gulf of Mexico. The state may properly be divided into two parts, the uplands of the north, and the alluvial along the coast. The alluvial region includes low swamp lands, coastal marshlands and beaches, and barrier islands that cover about 20,000 square miles (52,000 km2). This area lies principally along the Gulf of Mexico and the Mississippi River, which traverses the state from north to south for a distance of about 600 mi (970 km)) and empties into the Gulf of Mexico; ...
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Income Estimation for Staff Nurse - RN - Wound and Enterostomal jobs
$86,811 to $105,700