Job Description
Posting Job Description
** Position Purpose** : Assessing and monitoring wounds. Working collaboratively with other members of the patient care team to determine if additional treatments or changes in care are required. Educating patients and caretakers on wound care, infection and injury prevention, and pressure ulcer care.
** What you will do:**
*Initiate a nursing assessment of patient's condition upon admission.
- Assess and interpret reports communicating findings with the assigned physician.
- Recognize and assess initial alterations in the patient s body systems and verbalize this
to other members of the health care team.
- Organize assessment data for accuracy, completeness and confidentiality.
- Record assessment data in an orderly fashion and communicate, revise and verbalize
pertinent information to other health care team members.
- Assess, stage, and measure wounds accurately and in accordance with policy. In collaboration with the physician and other health care members, revise the plan of care and continuously reassess and evaluate until desired outcome is obtained.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Registered Nurse, graduate from an approved School of Nursing.
- Current FL state RN licensure
- Minimum of 2 years med-surg experience. Wound Care experience preferred.
** Position Highlights and Benefits**
- Comprehensive benefit packages available, including medical, dental, vision, paid time off, 403B, and education assistance.
- We serve together in the spirit of the Gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities.
- We live and breathe our guiding behaviors: we support each other in serving, we communicate openly, honestly, respectfully, and directly, we are fully present, we are all accountable, we trust and assume goodness in intentions.
** _ _Ministry/Facility Information:__**
- Holy Cross Hospital in Fort Lauderdale, Florida is a full-service, non-profit Catholic hospital, sponsored by the sisters of Mercy and a member of Trinity Health.
- We are committed to providing compassionate and holistic person-centered care.
- We are the only Catholic hospital in Broward and Palm Beach counties and are not for profit. We are part of Trinity Health, one of the largest multi-institutional Catholic health care delivery systems in the nation. Together, we serve people and communities in 21 states from coast to coast, providing nearly 2.8 million visits annually.
- Comprehensive benefits that start on your first day of work
- Retirement savings program with employer matching
Legal Info
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any other federal, state or local protected class.