Wound Treatment Nurse New

Join our dedicated healthcare team where compassion meets innovation! As a Registered Nurse with us, you'll have the opportunity to make a meaningful impact in patients' lives while enjoying a supportive work environment that fosters professional growth and work-life balance. Ready to be a vital part of our mission? Apply today and bring your passion for nursing to a place where it truly matters!

At Hi-Desert Continuing Care Center, We Understand That Our Greatest Asset Is Our Dedicated Team Of Professionals. That’s Why We Offer More Than a Job – We Provide a Comprehensive Benefit Package That Prioritizes Your Health, Professional Development, And Work-life Balance. The Available Plans And Programs Include:

• Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance
• 401(k) retirement savings plan with employer match
• Generous paid time off
• Career development and continuing education opportunities
• Health savings accounts, healthcare & dependent flexible spending accounts
• Employee Assistance program, Employee discount program
• Voluntary benefits include pet insurance, legal insurance, accident and critical illness insurance, long term care, elder & childcare, auto & home insurance
  
  

Note: Eligibility for benefits may vary by location and is determined by employment status

Primary Duties

• Start's IV's and obtains blood samples.
• Updates care plans as needed.
• Communicates the need for equipment or supplies to Charge RN or Unit Secretary
• Completes assigned admission documentation and assessments.
• Compiles and ensures others comply with all resident privacy and HIPPA requirements.
• Ensures CNA's complete assigned resident care tasks.
• Participates in monthly recapitulation process as requested.
• Ensure DPAC/Advance Directive wishes carried out in accordance with CCC policy and procedure.
• Provides resident and family education and training as assigned documentation
• Participates in resident Care Plan meetings and ensures care plans are appropriate and up-to-date.
• Participates in Nutrition/Weight/Wound meetings
• Assesses weekly measure of wounds
• Contacts MD's for appropriate treatment orders
• Assesses new admits
• Ensures orders are appropriate for treatment C/P skin problems
• Treatment nurse responsible fot the "m" section of the MDS
• Orders specialty beds appropriate to criteria of wounds
• Measure Decubs weekly, preferably on Sunday. Issues treatment if necessary, fills out decubitus reports, and distributes.
  
  

Shift: Day

Job type: Full time

Hours:

Position Summary

Provides nursing and wound care on the SNF unit.

Physical Demands:

• Considerable reaching, stooping, bending, kneeling, and crouching
• Frequent prolonged standing/walking
• Heavy physical effort (lift/carry up to 50 lbs)
• Manual dexterity mobility
• Lifts, positions, and/or transfers residents
  
  

Working Conditions:

• Contact with residents/patients/visitors under a wide variety of circumstances
• May be exposed to infectious/contagious diseases
• Regularly exposed to risk of blood borne diseases
• Requires judgment/actions with could result in the death of a resident
  
  

Minimum Education/Certification/Experience:

• Current California Registered Nurse License(RN) or Licensed Vocational Nurse (LVN)
• BLS Certification
• IV/Phlebotomy certification an advantage
  
  

Employment practices will not be influenced or affected by an applicant’s or employee’s race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, age, disability, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status or any other legally protected status. Tenet will make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities unless doing so would result in an undue hardship.

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Employment practices will not be influenced or affected by an applicant’s or employee’s race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, age, disability, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status or any other legally protected status. Tenet will make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities unless doing so would result in an undue hardship.

, $47.33 - $73.34 hourly **Individual wages are determined based upon a number of factors including, but not limited to, an individual’s qualifications and experience,

Minimum Education/Certification/Experience:

• Current California Registered Nurse License(RN) or Licensed Vocational Nurse (LVN)
• BLS Certification
• IV/Phlebotomy certification an advantage
  
  

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Primary Duties

• Start's IV's and obtains blood samples.
• Updates care plans as needed.
• Communicates the need for equipment or supplies to Charge RN or Unit Secretary
• Completes assigned admission documentation and assessments.
• Compiles and ensures others comply with all resident privacy and HIPPA requirements.
• Ensures CNA's complete assigned resident care tasks.
• Participates in monthly recapitulation process as requested.
• Ensure DPAC/Advance Directive wishes carried out in accordance with CCC policy and procedure.
• Provides resident and family education and training as assigned documentation
• Participates in resident Care Plan meetings and ensures care plans are appropriate and up-to-date.
• Participates in Nutrition/Weight/Wound meetings
• Assesses weekly measure of wounds
• Contacts MD's for appropriate treatment orders
• Assesses new admits
• Ensures orders are appropriate for treatment C/P skin problems
• Treatment nurse responsible fot the "m" section of the MDS
• Orders specialty beds appropriate to criteria of wounds
• Measure Decubs weekly, preferably on Sunday. Issues treatment if necessary, fills out decubitus reports, and distributes.