Wound Care Nurse (RN/ LPN)

Granite City Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Granite City, IL is actively seeking an efficient full-time WOUND CARE NURSE (RN / LPN) to assist residents with their daily routine and encourage them to live their highest quality life. Do you enjoy helping others? Are you looking for meaningful work with a positive impact on others? Would you like to join a supportive team that truly values you and your skills? If so, please keep reading!

This position earns competitive pay, based on experience. We provide generous benefits and perks, including medical, dental, vision, life, a health savings account (HSA), two-week vacation, sick days, eight personal days off, a cafeteria plan, and more. If this sounds like the right nursing opportunity for you, apply today!

ABOUT GRANITE CITY NURSING AND REHABILITATION CENTER

We provide the highest quality of care for the Granite City senior community with a commitment to proudly serve our community's long-term care and rehabilitation needs. We offer services such as speech therapy, occupational therapy, physical therapy, and dementia/Alzheimer's care. Our goal is to provide this dignified care to all of our residents in a well-maintained, home-like environment. This level of care would not be possible without our compassionate and focused staff working with residents, families, and physicians to create individualized and effective care and treatment plans.

Our company recognizes the amazing efforts of our staff and values their downtime with a work-life balance that includes two weeks of vacation and sick days for a healthy rejuvenation that all employees supply to our patients.

Responsibilities:

The Wound Care Nurse (RN/LPN) coordinates treatment to provide comprehensive wound assessments and plan of care including goals, implementation, evaluation of outcomes for patients ranging in age from 18 years to geriatric experiencing medically complex conditions, general medical-surgical conditions, with rehabilitation and/or wound care needs.

The Wound Care Nurse duties include:

• Provides patient, family and staff education regarding prevention of pressure ulcers and therapeutic support services, dressing selection and adjunctive therapy.
• Collaborates with clinical staff, physicians and other members of the treatment team to provide the patient with the highest quality and most appropriate wound care.
• Acts as a resource for the treatment team and clinical staff and assists with staffing as assigned.
• Trains and manages the Wound Care Team Members to include orientation, competency validation and in-service training.
• Organizes and directs the interdisciplinary Wound Care Committee
• Perform additional duties assigned.

Qualifications

Education and/or Experience:

• Graduate of an accredited school of professional nursing. Licensed Professional Nurse or Registered Nurse.
• Minimum of (3) years of comprehensive wound management including wound assessment, formulation of treatment plan, recommendation of appropriate wound dressing, documentation, evaluation, education, data collection, surveillance and outcome data.
• Knowledge of principals of infection control.

Certificates, Licenses, Registrations:

Current professional nursing license for state of employment.
Wound Care Nursing Certification and Wound Debridement Certification preferred.
Registered Nurse (RN) (Preferred)

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: From $37.00 per hour

Expected hours: 40 per week

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• Dental insurance
• Employee assistance program
• Flexible spending account
• Health insurance
• Health savings account
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance

Medical specialties:

• Wound Care

Physical setting:

• Long term care

Standard shift:

• Day shift

Supplemental pay types:

• Overtime pay

Supplemental schedule:

• Overtime

Weekly schedule:

• Monday to Friday

Ability to Relocate:

• Granite City, IL 62040: Relocate before starting work (Required)

Work Location: In person