Wound Care Nurse; RN - Inpatient

Wound Care Nurse (RN) - Inpatient - FT Days

- 8 Hour Shift Days

Compensation: $59.17 - $79.13/hour

California Rehabilitation Institute

* A Joint Venture with Cedars, UCLA, and Select Medical*

Century City / Los Angeles, CA

Rate: $59.17 - $79.13 per hour

**$5,000 Sign on Bonus**

Our inpatient rehabilitation hospital is committed to providing exceptional and compassionate care to best address the medical, physical, emotional, and vocational challenges for individuals with brain injuries , spinal cord injuries, neurological disorders, orthopedic issues, amputation, and multiple traumas.

We support your career growth and personal well‑being:

• Start Strong:
  Extensive and thorough orientation program to ensure a smooth transition into our setting.
• Advance Your Career:
  Tuition reimbursement and continuing education opportunities
• Elevate Your
  
  Skills:
  
  Clinical ladder program.
• Ease the Burden:
  Student debt benefit program
• Recharge & Refresh :
  Generous PTO and Paid Sick Time for full‑time team members to maintain a healthy work‑life balance
• Your Health Matters :
  Comprehensive medical/RX, health, vision, including medical and life insurance, employee assistance program (EAP) and dental plan offerings for full‑time team members
• Invest in Your Future:
  Company‑matching 401(k) retirement plan, as well as life and disability protection for full‑time team members
• Your Impact Matters:
  Join a team of over 44,000 committed to providing exceptional patient care

• Establishes a leadership role in the wound care program, establishing standards of care across the hospitals and programs in collaboration with Select Medical wound care experts.
• Develops and deploys evidence‑based clinical protocols and algorithms to support the best clinical outcomes for wound management, including development and updating product formulary.
• Establishes competencies for clinicians regarding wound care.
• Collaborates with Medical leadership on wound care initiatives, research questions, and outcome measures to support program innovation and excellence.
• Develops educational modules for wound care to be used for internal and external education, including teaching tools for patients and families.
• Analyzes patterns of wounds across programs and hospitals, and identifies targeted PI activities to improve wound outcomes and mitigate pressure sore development.
• Establishes individual programs and courses directed at increasing staff knowledge, competency, and credentials in support of individual job objectives and the overall goals and mission of the organization.
• Coordinates competency evaluation and testing for professional staff in collaboration with clinical departments.
• Works in collaboration with Education department to assure coordination of all educational initiatives and activities to support the overall objectives and goals and the organization.
• Evaluates the effectiveness of nursing and other clinical education programs.
• Maintains the database to track staff education, competency and credentials and utilizes the database to evaluate and plan for future educational activities and programs.
• Works under the direction of the Director of Education on nursing education projects and initiatives related to skin, wound and ostomy management.
• Collaborates with other members of the Education Department on joint educational initiatives.
• Performs other duties as requested.

Minimum Qualifications

• Valid State RN License required
• Certified BLS required
• Excellent presentation and organizational skills required

Preferred Qualifications

• BSN preferred
• WCC, CWCN, CWOCN or CWS preferred

* Post offer employment testing (POETs) are completed as part of the onboarding process and are to be completed before an employee's first day of work.*

Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disabled/Veterans