Wound Care Nurse; RN

Overview

Position: Wound Care Nurse Registered Nurse (RN)

Location:
Nashville, TN

Schedule: Full-Time, 8-hour shifts

Select Specialty Hospital is a critical illness recovery hospital committed to providing world-class inpatient post-ICU services to chronic, critically ill patients who require extended healing and recovery. We help patients during some of the most vulnerable, painful moments of their lives – and Wound Care Nurses (RNs) play a central role in providing compassionate, excellent treatment every step of the way.

Why Join Us:

• 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, 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.

• Preserving the integrity of the skin by implementing and monitoring skin preservation strategies.
• Ensuring all wound and skin care protocols are approved by the medical staff.
• Organizing multidisciplinary wound and skin rounds on a weekly basis for high risk patients and patients with current pressure ulcers and other significant wounds.
• Providing hands-on wound care for all difficult and non-healing wounds.
• Serving as a resource to all hospital staff on all issues related to wound and skin care.
• Ensuring all regulatory requirements are met

Minimum qualifications

• AD (Associate's degree in Nursing) required.
• One (1) year of related experience required.
• Valid State RN License.
• Possess a Basic Life Support (BLS) certification by start date.
• Must complete wound care training in the first 90 days in the role.

Preferred qualifications:

• BSN preferred.

Equal Opportunity Employer/including Disabled/Veterans