Job Description
Job Title
The wound clinic RN collaborates with the wound care team. Duties may include, but are not limited to:
- Managing and treating inpatient/outpatient/telewound consults
- Assessing STAT consults from acute care
- Ensuring daily operations in the nurse/wound clinic run smoothly
The RN is responsible for providing care and educating veterans and their families in the promotion of health and prevention of illness based upon the nursing process in many different clinics and in many different specialties. The RN working in this area must be adaptable to changing populations and must be able to work with a multitude of providers as well. The RN must gather data, assess, utilize appropriate nursing judgment, and evaluate responses to actual or potential health problems. Follow up includes such services as telephone services, teaching, referral services, provision of care, and executing medical treatments and /or orders prescribe...