Job Description
JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:
Assessment:
a. Perform follow-up nursing assessment of patient's conditions and report findings to RN.
b. Recognize alterations in the patient's healing progress and verbalize this to other members of the health care team.
c. Organize assessment data for accuracy, completeness, and confidentiality.
d. Record wound assessment data in an orderly fashion and communicate, revise, and verbalize pertinent information to other health care team members.
e. Assess, stage, and measure wounds accurately and in accordance with policy and procedure.
f. Photograph wounds according to policy and procedure.
g. Communicate patient care situations that may require intervention, implement nursing actions identified by Staff RN/Case Manager, and evaluate the patient's responses with Staff RN/Case Manager.
h. Complete patient/family education and discharge plans identified in the patient's plan of care
Planning:
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