Registered Nurse, RN - Wound Ostomy Continence

Full Time

Charlottesville, VA

Experience in wound and ostomy care (WOC) preferred. If no WOC experience, team member must successfully obtain wound and ostomy certifications within 12 months of hire. Examples include, but are not limited to, Certified Wound Ostomy Nurse (CWON); Certified Wound, Ostomy, Continence Nurse (CWOCN); Certified Wound Care Nurse (CWCN); and Certified Ostomy Care Nurse (COCN).
The wound ostomy care nurse partners with interprofessional teams to provide consultation, education, leadership, and direct care for patients with wound, ostomy, fistula, and incontinence needs. Other responsibilities include:

• Actively participating within an interdisciplinary team, providing advanced clinical guidance to physicians and nursing staff regarding the management of complex wounds, fistulas, moisture management, and pressure injuries. Effectively advocating for patient-centered care.
• Providing leadership in hospital-wide pressure injury prevention initiatives, wound care, and ostomy care, to include supporting pressure injury prevalence data collection; evidence-based policies, procedures, and protocols; and advisement of appropriate support surfaces, products, and staff decision-making algorithms.
• Providing consultation and direct patient care for new ostomy patients. Performing appropriate preoperative stoma site marking. Developing and conducting preoperative and postoperative ostomy education, ostomy care plan for the patient and family, and emotional support. Recommending materials and resources needed for ostomy care at home.
• Evaluating innovative wound, ostomy, and skin care products and devices. Influencing product choice through collaboration with other departments and teams.
• Developing WOC-related policies, procedures, and practice protocols or guidelines.
• Providing education to patients, family, and other healthcare professionals individually and in group settings.
• Developing and conducting educational programs and clinical instruction for UVA Health staff.

UVA Health offers a comprehensive benefits package, including medical, dental, and vision insurance; paid time off; long-term and short-term disability; retirement savings plans; and flexible spending accounts.

Additional benefits:

• Sign-on bonuses are available for eligible candidates.
• Certification and education support after 6 months of employment.
• Generous paid time off.
• Clinical career ladder for professional growth and promotion.

Capable clinician focused on expanding knowledge and skills. Consistently provides effective direct care, as part of the interdisciplinary team, to a variety of complex patients. Manages care and implements treatment plans at a refined skill level in collaboration with patients, their families, physicians, and other members of the healthcare team. Seeks as well as provides feedback for improved clinical practice. Assumes a beginning leadership role but seeks mentoring in this process.
ANA Scope and Standards of Practice definition of nursing:
Nursing is the protection, promotion, and optimization of health and abilities; prevention of illness and injury; facilitation of healing; alleviation of suffering through the diagnosis and treatment of human response; and advocacy in the care of individuals, families, groups, communities, and populations.

This job description integrates the ANA 2015 Nursing: Scope and Standards of Practice, Third Edition; the ANA Code of Ethics for Nurses with Interpretive Statements (ANA, 2015); and the UVA Nursing Professional Practice Model.

• Relationship-Based Care - Self and Colleagues: reflects the influence of the nurse's relationship with self, colleagues, and patient/family on the patient experience.
• Relationship-Based Care - Patients and Families: reflects the influence of the nurse's relationship with self, colleagues, and patient/family on the patient experience.
• Expert Caring: encompasses clinical assessment, planning, prioritizing, coordinating, and implementation of care.
• Empowered Leaders: demonstrate knowledge of and actively participate in shared governance.
• Lifelong Learners: encompasses professional development through formal education, professional certification, and internal and external learning opportunities. Recognizes the value of external professional organizations. Supports onboarding of new team members and precepts as applicable.
• Quality Achievement: includes adherence to clinical documentation guidelines, comprehension of outcomes data, engagement in performance improvement activities, and commitment to standard work.
• Innovation: is demonstrated by application of technologies that support patient care, actively seeking to implement evidence-based practice and new knowledge generated by nursing research.
• In addition to the above job responsibilities, other duties may be assigned.

Position Compensation Range: $39.90 - $53.00 Hourly

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS

• Education: Graduate of an accredited nursing program required. Bachelor of Science in Nursing required within 5 years of hire.
• Experience: 1 year of relevant experience.
• Licensure: Licensed to practice as a registered nurse in the Commonwealth of Virginia. American Heart Association (AHA) Healthcare Provider BLS certification required.

Apply online: https://careers.uvahealth.org/us/en/job/R0059673/Registered-Nurse-RN-Wound-Ostomy-Continence-WOC

PHYSICAL DEMANDS
Job requires standing for prolonged periods, frequently traveling, and bending/stooping. Proficient communicative, auditory, and visual skills. Attention to detail and ability to write legibly. Ability to lift/push/pull 20-50 lbs. May be exposed to chemicals, blood/body fluids, and infectious disease.

The University of Virginia, including the UVA Health System, which represents the UVA Medical Center, Schools of Medicine and Nursing, UVA Physicians Group, and the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library, is fundamentally committed to the diversity of our faculty and staff. We believe diversity is excellence expressing itself through every person's perspective and lived experiences. We are equal opportunity and affirmative action employers. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, color, disability, gender identity or expression, marital status, national or ethnic origin, political affiliation, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, veteran status, and family medical or genetic information.