Wound Care Services Director jobs in Kent, WA

Wound Care Nurse - LPN
Status: Full-Time
Location: Avamere at Pacific Ridge - 3625 East B St. Tacoma, WA 98404

At Avamere, you join a team with a culture and mission to enhance the life of every person we serve. This is more than a job – it’s a place where our team members build lasting relationships with patients and residents, their families, and fellow team members.

Find your calling at Avamere where we support you in your career path!

Employee Perks:

• Tuition assistance
• Mentorship opportunities
• Career development
• Free meals for employees
• Employee assistance program featuring counseling services, financial coaching, free legal services and more
• Generous employee referral program
• Paid time off/sick leave (rolls over annually)
• 401K retirement plan with employer match
• Comprehensive benefits package with medical coverage, voluntary dental, vision, and life insurance, short-term disability, and AD&D coverage
• Access up to 50% of your net earned income before payday

Responsibilities:

• Clean and dress wounds, development of wound care treatment plans.
• Provide education to patient, family and nursing staff about preventive measures or techniques to optimize wound healing.
• Successfully reduce the percentage of patients who develop pressure ulcers and wound complications.
• Develop individualized rehabilitative care that is essential to facilitating the patients return to a productive lifestyle.
• Complete required recordkeeping in regards to your role in admitting, transferring and discharging residents.
• Coordinate with nursing staff and support personnel daily to plan the shifts' services, programs and activities to ensure the resident's total regimen of care is maintained.
• Prepare and administer medications and review medication cards for completeness and accuracy.
• Review resident care plans for appropriate resident goals, problems, approaches and revisions based on nursing needs.
• Plan, organize, develop, implement and interpret programs, goals, objectives, policies and procedures that are necessary for providing quality care.
• Provide leadership to nursing personnel and make daily rounds of your unit to ensure staff is providing direct care in accordance with resident's care plan and wishes.
• Develop and maintain rapport with nursing staff, other department personnel, residents, family members, and all other individuals involved in resident's care.
• Participate in facility surveys by authorized government agencies.

Qualifications:

• Must possess a nursing degree from an accredited college or university.
• Must possess a current, unencumbered, active license to practice as an RN in this state.
• Wound certification preferred.
• Knowledgeable of nursing and medical practices and procedures, as well as laws, regulations and guidelines that pertain to nursing care facilities.
• Must chart nurses' notes in an informative and descriptive manner that reflects the care provided to the resident and resident's response to care.
• Experience with Electronic Medical Records and computer documentation systems.
• Maintain confidentiality of all resident care information in accordance with HIPAA guidelines.

Licenses & Certifications

• Registered Nurse