Registered Nurse Wound Care AdventHealth Shawnee Mission

Location Address: 9100 W. 74^th Street, Shawnee Mission, KS 66204

Top Reasons To Work At AdventHealth Shawnee Mission

• Received Magnet® recognition from the American Nurses Credentialing Center in January 2019
• Providing faith-based, whole person care to Kansas City since 1962
• Excellent health benefits, an onsite child care center and fitness facility  
• Tuition reimbursement to support continuing education
• Employee Referral Program
• Largest health care provider in Johnson County with three campuses
• On-site, covered, free parking

Work Hours/Shift:

Relief, Days

No Weekends, No Holidays

You Will Be Responsible For:

• Understands and provides appropriate care for adolescent, adult and geriatric patients with difficult or chronic wounds including timely completion and accurate documentation of detailed wound assessments, consistent wound photography and total patient care to determine and care for the causes of non-healing.
• Demonstrates proper technique for specialty dressings and procedures.
• Maintains strict infection control standards within own practice and guidance for the practices of non-RN associates.
• Plan, implement and document education for patients with difficult or chronic wounds utilizing team members, departmental tools and other resources efficiently.  Education and instructions should be clear enough to minimize follow-up calls and inquiries.
• Utilize efficient and effective communication with partners outside the departments who assist with care of the wound patients e.g. home health nurses, insurance case managers, referring and consulting physicians
• Be proactive in management of assigned clinics to give efficient care while minimizing wait times and providing maximum physician and patient satisfaction.
• Actively participate in departmental quality improvement activities including patient centered quality management measures in care and documentation as well as departmental initiatives.

• For RN case manager- Demonstrate ability to lead a care team as clinic case manager with clear instructions to team members to enable well organized quality care, directions for delegation of tasks to efficient level of provider with attention to productivity guidelines for FTE per encounter.  S/he accepts accountability for the hours of staff time in the assigned clinic allowing staff to leave clinic at his/her direction.