Description

The pay range for this position is $31.02 - $48.12

Are you a Registered Nurse looking for a better work/life balance? Have you always thought about getting into Wound Care so you could work one on one with your patients? The Hyperbaric Wound team in Mechanicsburg is in need of a Registered Nurse (RN) like you!

Responsibilities:

• Conducts stoma site marking according to the accepted standards of stoma marking to ensure proper placement of an abdominal stoma under the direction of a WOC nurse.
• Maintains ongoing follow-up evaluation for appropriate ostomy and/or skin care patients with needs after discharge from the hospital to provide for continuity of care.
• Incorporates national professional organizations (NPUAP) and (WOCN) as well as business unit and health system's goals to improve patient quality, safety and satisfaction in daily work
• Creates a caring and compassionate patient focused experience by building healing relationships with patient and their families as well colleagues.
• Applies the Nursing process within the framework of Relationship Based Care to create a healing environment.
• Formulates goal and a plan of care for applicable patients that involves the patient as a partner and considers the individual needs of the patient in a holistic manner.
• Serves as a role model of professional nursing practice by serving as a recognized leader in clinical expertise , teacher, specialized resource nurse, and /or evidence based practice in the nursing care of patients with alterations in skin integrity, wounds, ostomies, fistulas and /or incontinence.
• Participates in continuous learning within the specialty
• Participates in system wide WOCN meetings and dissemination of informationDemonstrates a passion for developing others, enthusiastically and expertly precepts students, graduate nurses and new hires.
• Builds and mends relationships among colleagues within the framework of a healthy workplace. 
• Demonstrates a passion for developing self and others, enthusiastically and expertly precepts students, graduate nurses, new staff, medical students and residents. 
• Demonstrates a passion for developing self and others, enthusiastically and expertly precepts students, graduate nurses, new staff, medical students and residents.

Qualifications

• BSN required
• Minimum 2 years of nursing experience

Licensure, Certifications, and Clearances:

• Current Pennsylvania licensure as a Registered Professional Nurse license or eligible for State Board Licensure.
• CPR required based on AHA standards that include both a didactic and skills demonstration component within 30 days of hire

Clearances must be dated within 90 days. BLS must be acquired within 12 months.

• Basic Life Support (BLS)
• Basic Life Support (BLS) OR Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR)
• Registered Nurse (RN)
• Act 33 with renewal
• Act 34 with renewal
• Act 73 FBI Clearance with renewal

UPMC is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Disability/Veteran

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