Lakeland Regional Health is a leading medical center located in Central Florida. With a legacy spanning over a century, we have been dedicated to serving our community with excellence in healthcare. As the only Level 2 Trauma center for Polk, Highlands, and Hardee counties, and the second busiest Emergency Department in the US, we are committed to providing high-quality care to our diverse patient population. Our facility is licensed for 892 beds and handles over 200,000 emergency room visits annually, along with 49,000 inpatient admissions, 21,000 surgical cases, 4,000 births, and 101,000 outpatient visits.

Lakeland Regional Health is currently seeking motivated individuals to join our team in various entry-level positions. Whether you're starting your career in healthcare or seeking new opportunities to make a difference, we have roles available across our primary and specialty clinics, urgent care centers, and upcoming standalone Emergency Department. With over 7,000 employees, Lakeland Regional Health offers a supportive work environment where you can thrive and grow professionally.

Active - Benefit Eligible and Accrues Time Off

Wound and Enterostomal nurse is a registered nurse who works within the scope of nursing practice, provides treatment recommendation, monitors all complex wounds and provides staff education, utilizing the nursing process, assessment, diagnosis, planning, implementation and evaluation. Participates in Pressure injury prevalence and incidence study. Provides bedside care to patients with specialized needs with gastrointestinal and genitourinary and integumentary system disorders, abdominal stoma, wounds, fistulas, drains, pressure injuries, and continence disorders. Skills entail stoma siting, immediate post op assessment, treatment and patient care giver education and to promote patient advocacy. Contributes to positive outcomes and meets the cultural expectations of the organization by exhibiting professional behavior and clinical expertise. Must contribute to the achievement of the goals of the organization for patient, employee, and customer satisfaction. In addition to professional/technical duties, performs coaching and mentoring, collaborates with and motivates staff.

• Fosters an inclusive and engaged environment through teamwork and collaboration.
• Ensures patients and families have the best possible experiences across the continuum of care.
• Communicates appropriately with patients, families, team members, and our community in a manner that treasures all people as uniquely created.

• Behaves in a mindful manner focused on self, patient, visitor, and team safety.
• Demonstrates accountability and commitment to quality work.
• Participates actively in process improvement and adoption of standard work.

• Demonstrates responsible use of LRH's resources including people, finances, equipment and facilities.
• Knows and adheres to organizational and department policies and procedures.

Standard Work Duties: Enterostomal Resource Nurse

• Establish baseline for re- evaluation of plan of care by collecting data from EMR, patient/ family and inter-professional team (nursing, PT/OT/Dietitian/SW/ wound care specialist/ physician/ ARNP).
• Review PMH, labs, nutritional assessment, Braden scale, support surface therapy. Determine wound etiology.
• Recommends POC, evidenced based practice, cost efficient for the patient, staff and hospital.
• Conduct a patient follow up and wound healing monitoring, provide documentation, re-assessment on effectives of POC weekly or biweekly, alter treatment plan until goal is met, patient is discharged or service is transferred to another provider.
• Works rotating split weekends.
• Uphold skills relevant to the ET/Wound care department. Stays current with educational evidence-based practice and updates, attends meetings, net learning opportunities to support a strong work group.
• Acts as resource in areas of wound care to nursing staff.
• Coordinates without patient program director/ Nurse manager and team members and discusses any issues that impact patient care received on weekends, holidays, and plan for patient discharge and follow up.
• Ostomy care, education of patient, family and staff. Stoma siting/ marking.
• Stewardship
  • Demonstrates responsible use of LRH's resources including people, finances, equipment and facilities.
  • Knows and adheres to organizational and department policies and procedures.
  • People At The Heart Of All We Do
  • Fosters an inclusive and engaged environment through teamwork and collaboration.
  • Ensures patients and families have the best possible experiences across the continuum of care.
  • Communicates appropriately with patients, families, team members, and our community in a manner that treasures all people as uniquely created.
  • Guide Projects Using Acceptable Standards And ITIL FrameworkSafety And Performance Improvement
  • Behaves in a mindful manner focused on self, patient, visitor, and team safety.
  • Demonstrates accountability and commitment to quality work.
  • Participates actively in process improvement and adoption of standard work.

Essential:

• One or more years of wound care nursing experience.

• Current Wound/Ostomy nurse.

Essential:

• Associate Degree

• Bachelor Degree

Essential:

• Basic Life Support

Other information:
Licenses Essential: Registered Nurse license or compact license, BLS.
Experience Essential: Three to five years acute care experience.
Certifications Preferred: WCC or WOCN