AdventHealth Tampa
Registered Nurse
Submission for the position: Registered Nurse - Wound Ostomy Seasonal - Days - Tampa - (Job Number: 20021849)
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Registered Nurse - Wound Ostomy Seasonal - Days - Tampa
Registered Nurse Wound Ostomy Full Time Days AdventHealth Tampa
Location Address: 3100 East Fletcher Avenue Tampa, Florida 33613
Top Reasons to Work at AdventHealth Tampa
• Florida Hospital Pepin Heart Institute, known across the country for its advances in cardiovascular disease prevention, diagnosis, treatment and research.
• Surgical Pioneers – the first in Tampa with the latest robotics in spine surgery
• Building a brand new, six story surgical and patient care tower which will ensure state of the art medical and surgical car for generations to come
• Awarded the Get With The Guidelines – Stroke GOLD Quality Achievement Award from the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association and have been recognized as a recipient of their Target: Stroke Honor Roll for our expertise in stroke care. We have also received certification by The Joint Commission in collaboration with the American Stroke Association as a Primary Stroke Center.
Work Hours/Shift:
• Full Time
You will be responsible for:
• Communicates with courtesy when interacting with internal or external customers—in person or on the telephone.
• Demonstrates respect for co-workers and develops positive working relationships with other departments.
• Uses the AIDET technique when interacting with patients.
• Incorporates Caring Model behaviors and culturally competent care into daily practice
• Demonstrates FHT commitment standards and values
• Adheres to FHT standards for dress and professional appearance.
• Demonstrate collaboration and teamwork
• Participates in peer interviewing and peer review process
• Considers factors related to safety, effectiveness, cost and impact on practice in the delivery of nursing services
• The Wound Ostomy Continence Nurse assesses patient care needs associated with wound ostomy continence as evidenced by:
• Quarterly Pressure Ulcer Survey
• Completes comprehensive assessment of wound, ostomy patients
• Responds to physician and nursing request for consultation on patients pre and post ostomy, patients with skin breakdown, draining wounds, and urinary incontinence
• Conducts and documents assessments and suggested interventions
• The WOCN assesses educational needs of the nurse and potential educational needs across the organization through the review of annual nursing education survey and iteractions with nurses
• Assists staff in developing and maintaining competency in maintaining skin integrity
• Develops nursing diagnosis to meet the needs of wound, ostomy, incontinent patients.
• Differentiates between a variety of wounds, ostomy types, incontinence types.
• Conducts and documents patient teaching regarding self-care and disease process.
• Selects ostomy supplies appropriate for patients needs and abilities
• The WOCN supports evidence-based practice in identification of expected patient outcomes by:
• Identifying expected patient outcomes that incorporate scientific evidence and are achievable through implementation of evidence-based practices
• Supports the use of clinical guidelines linked to positive patient outcomes
• Participates in conducting and documenting discharge planning needs by identifying post-hospital care
• Collaborates with health team members by reporting of pertinent clinical information and providing suggestions for interventions to achieve identified patient outcomes
• Coordinates trial and selection of skin/wound/ostomy products between health care team members and Materials Management Department
• Selects or designs strategies to meet the multi-faceted needs of complex wound and ostomy patients.
• Coordinates with other disciplines to meet established patient goals as evidenced by attending interdisciplinary team meetings or conferring with health care team.
• Coordinates with management team to provide new employees with training time with WOCN
• Develops and implements standards for skin breakdown prevention and treatment, wound and ostomy care, and urinary incontinence.
• Incorporates new knowledge and strategies to initiate change in nursing practices if desired outcomes are not achieved.
• Provides learning activities for clinical staff on an ongoing basis as evidenced by competency skills fairs, orientation classes, in services, Resource Nurse training, and evidence-based programs.
• Provides guidance to nurses and clinical staff in the evaluation of effectiveness of interventions in attainment of expected outcomes.
• WOCN demonstrates effective staff training as evidenced by positive feedback provided by new employees on new hire orientation evaluations
• Maintains safe practice by demonstrating clinical competency and demonstrating compliance with all regulatory standards
• Demonstrates safe practice in the administration of wound care medications.
• Demonstrates sensitivity to pain management by alleviating and reducing pain to level acceptable to patient.
• Integrates ethical decision making into daily nursing practice
• Integrates research findings and Evidence Based Practice into practice
• Acts as a patient advocate
• Demonstrates critical thinking skills appropriate to level of experience
• Integrates population specific standards when planning care
• Demonstrates commitment to professional and personal growth-i.e. completes all mandatory educational requirements, maintains CWOCN certification, attends 75% of department staff meeting, acts as designated preceptor for new hires re: to wound/ostomy care, chairs wound resource nurse program, member of professional nursing organization, attends hospital wide committees, member of shared governance council.
What You Will Need:
• Graduate of an accredited school of Nursing with Bachelors Degree in Nursing or related specialty area upon hire
• One or more years of nursing practice experience upon hire
• One year of practice in which leadership and teaching competence has been demonstrated upon hire
• Current licensure as a Registered Nurse in Florida. If licensed in another state, verification of application for Florida licensure must be submitted within 30 days of hire date.
• Board Certified in Wound, Ostomy Care (WOCN) or obtain within 1 year of hire date
• Current American Heart Association BLS upon hire
• 4 hours Hip and Knee Replacement education within 6 months of hire date, then annually INPATIENT ONLY
• 2 hours Stroke education within 6 months of hire date, then 1 hour annually INPATIENT ONLY
US-FL-Tampa
TP FH TAMPA (TP01000000)
3100 E Fletcher Ave
Tampa , 33613
TP FH TAMPA
3100 E Fletcher Ave
Entry Level
Oct 2, 2020, 11:34:59 AM
Schedule: Full-time Location(s): US-FL-Tampa Day Job Job Level: Entry Level Travel: No