PIH Health is a nonprofit, regional healthcare network that serves approximately 3 million residents in the Los Angeles County, Orange County and San Gabriel Valley region. The fully integrated network is comprised of PIH Health Hospital - Whittier, PIH Health Hospital - Downey and PIH Health Good Samaritan Hospital, 27 outpatient medical locations, a multispecialty medical (physician) group, home healthcare services and hospice care, as well as heart, cancer, women’s health, urgent care and emergency services.

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This is a Registered Nurse who provides specialized patient care services in wound, ostomy, and continence care for our patients.  They are part of a multidisciplinary approach for the treatment and management of disorders affecting the gastrointestinal, genitourinary, and integumentary systems.  Their scope of care usually involves the treatment of ostomies, stomas, acute and chronic wounds, and skin breakdown due to urinary and/or fecal incontinence.

Required Skills

• Assess and define a plan of care that will quickly and safely heal various types of wounds, including surgical openings, ulcers, bed sores, feeding tube sites and abscesses.

Required Experience

REQUIRED:

• Graduate of an accredited school of nursing
• Licensed to practice as a RN in the State of California
• BSN degree
• Graduate of a Wound Ostomy, Continence Nursing Society (WOCN) accredited Enterostomal Therapy Nursing Education Program. 
• Minimum two years of recent acute medical/surgical nursing experience. 
• Minimum one year recent acute care Enterostomal and Wound Therapy Nursing experience

PREFERRED:

• MSN degree

Beyond the benefits that come with working for the area's leading community healthcare provider – one that also recognizes the need to ensure patient safety and comfort – you'll enjoy an extremely competitive compensation and benefits package.  We are an equal opportunity employer and seek diversity in our workforce.   EOE M/F/D/V

• Assess and define a plan of care that will quickly and safely heal various types of wounds, including surgical openings, ulcers, bed sores, feeding tube sites and abscesses.