SAH Wound Ostomy Registered Nurse

Summary

Consultation; assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation of problems and interventions for patients with wound, ostomy, or continence needs; patient care and education, staff education and support; quality audits; product recommendation, and participation in hospital committees, projects, and research. Provides general nursing care as needed.

Brown University Health employees are expected to successfully role model the organization’s values of Compassion, Accountability, Respect, and Excellence as these values guide our everyday actions with patients, customers and one another. In addition to our values, all employees are expected to demonstrate the Core Success Factors
, which tell us how we work together and how we get things done.

• Instill Trust and Value Differences
• Patient and Community Focus and Collaborate

Customer Service:
Follows appropriate lines of communication to effectively resolve difficult patient/family/physician/staff situations; responds promptly and courteously to customer and patient requests; communicates effectively with internal and external customers respecting differences in cultures, values, beliefs and ages; respects patient privacy and confidentiality; accepts responsibility and accountability for own actions with appropriate follow through; fulfills commitments; consistently presents a positive attitude in working with internal and external customers.

Organization Responsibilities:
Responds appropriately and immediately in emergency situations; maintains a safe and healthy environment for patients, visitors, and staff; ensures compliance with regulations; completes all hospital and department specific mandatory requirements; applies principles of national patient safety goals and integrates them into clinical practice where applicable.

Behavioral

Competencies:

Fosters interdisciplinary, collaborative relationships; works cooperatively and collaboratively building a positive team spirit; makes timely and appropriate decisions; is open, honest and trustworthy; understands own weaknesses; adapts to change; utilizes departmental process; exhibits respectful awareness of others' feelings; supports patient care needs; presents a positive reflection on the hospital and its core values; follows hospital standards of work.

• Assesses, plans, implements, and evaluates nursing interventions/plans of care/patient goals.
• Provides patient care based on standards of care, standards of practice, protocols, and established policies and procedures.
• Respects each patient as an individual; provides care that fosters the patient’s sense of dignity and positive self-regard.
• Provides patient/family teaching based on identified learning needs, readiness to learn, and barriers to learning.
• Appropriately prioritizes patient care.
• Provides thorough, timely, and accurate documentation of all pertinent data, therapeutic interventions, and patient responses.
• Assumes accountability for remaining current regarding standards of care established by the profession, regulatory and accreditation bodies and hospital policies and procedures.
• Proactively identifies risk to patient safety and identifies opportunities to reduce medical/health care errors.
• Identifies ethical issues in care and implements actions to address.
• Safely administers medications and intravenous therapy in accordance with physician’s orders, protocols, policies and procedures.
• Assesses, reassesses and documents patient’s pain, using an appropriate pain scale.

• Consultation and assistance to staff in management of patients with draining wounds and fistulas; potential or existing deficits in skin; percutaneous tubes; continent diversions or ostomies; urinary and fecal incontinence; vacuum assisted closure wounds; educates patients receiving continent diversion or ostomy surgery; educates staff; provides consultation to surgeons and case managers; audits patient records for quality improvement and regulatory compliance; facilitates monthly pressure ulcer prevalence studies;
  
  recommends wound, ostomy, continence products;…