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Summary The VA San Diego Healthcare System (VASDHS) is a Level 1a major interdisciplinary teaching healthcare system, offering a variety of Inpatient and Outpatient services to Veterans at the medical center in La Jolla and at the six Community Based Outpatient Clinics (CBOCs). VA San Diego Health Care is looking for a Registered Nurse with clinical experience with all manners of wounds within the Scope and Standards of a Certified Wound Specialist. Responsibilities VA offers a comprehensive total rewards package: VA Nurse Total Rewards The Wound Care Specialist RN assumes the following major duties and responsibilities: The Wound Care Specialist RN assumes the following major duties and responsibilities: Provides timely patient follow-up for wound and ostomy in SCI and CLC through inpatient visits, outpatient clinic visits, E-consults, tele-wound and CVT wound care consults. To include ostomy teaching, site marking and supply selection. Completes CPRS documentation and closes encounters per facility policy. Provide comprehensive education to patients, their families, and staff. Assists staff in maintaining current knowledge and competence in skin and wound management through annual skills day training, regularly scheduled in-service programs and review of policies and procedures according to national guidelines. Participates in interdisciplinary committees, task forces or other groups to improve organizational performance through collaboration with other health care providers across service lines for the SCI/D and CLC wound care patient. Provides specialized nursing consultation and collaboration with physicians, licensed independent practitioners, peers and others in the health care community to develop, implement and assure continuity of individualized treatment plans. Leads the interdisciplinary wound care team and collaborates with the team to make effective wound and ostomy care treatment decisions. Including regularly scheduled Skin Rounds. Provides assessment and documentation of wounds, ostomies and continence. Identifies and institutes preventive and treatment measures and monitors results of care delivered. Recommends appropriate treatment orders such as wound dressings, ointments, advanced therapies, laboratory tests and cultures, and specialty mattresses. Monitors and evaluates the prevalence and incidence of wound and skin care patients utilizing tools including but not limited to: VAAES Skin Notes and local monitors for quality reports. Tracks wound progression and assists with data collection to improve outcomes for the SCI/D and CLC patient population. Works in collaboration with the ordering provider to recommend topical medications, medicated dressings and other supplies indicated for the treatment of pressure ulcers and complex wounds based on published National Pressure Injury Advisory Panel (NPIAP) guidelines and established facility clinical protocols. Works in collaboration with the ordering provider to recommend, implement, and manage Vacuum Assisted Closure (VAC) devices for inpatients and outpatients to facilitate wound healing. Participates in interdisciplinary rounds providing input for wound, ostomy and related nutrition issues. Actively participates on service-level ad hoc or standing committees or councils. Participates in interdisciplinary committees, task forces, groups to improve patient care at the program or medical center level. Collaborates with Plastic Surgery physicians in the planning and treatment of SCI and CLC patients. Other duties as assigned. Pay: Competitive salary, regular salary increases, potential for performance awards Paid Time Off: 50 days of paid time off per year (26 days of annual leave, 13 days of sick leave, 11 paid Federal holidays per year) Retirement: Traditional federal pension (5 years vesting) and federal 401K with up to 5% in contributions by VA Insurance: Federal health/vision/dental/term life/long-term care (many federal insurance programs can be carried into retirement) Licensure: 1 full and unrestricted license from any US State or territory Work Schedule: Full Time Telework: N/A Virtual: This is not a virtual position. Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: N/A Financial Disclosure Report: Not required Requirements Conditions of Employment U. S. Citizenship; non-citizens may only be appointed when it is not possible to recruit qualified citizens in accordance with VA Policy. All applicants tentatively selected for VA employment in a testing designated position are subject to urinalysis to screen for illegal drug use prior to appointment. Applicants who refuse to be tested will be denied employment with VA. Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959. You may be required to serve a probationary period. Subject to background/security investigation. Selected applicants will be required to complete an online onboarding process. Must pass pre-employment physical examination. Participation in the seasonal influenza vaccination program is a requirement for all Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care Personnel (HCP). Participation in the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccination program is a requirement for all Veterans Health Administration Health Care Personnel (HCP) - See "Additional Information" below for details. Qualifications Basic Requirements: English Language Proficiency. In accordance with 38 U. S. C. 7403(f), no person shall serve in direct patient care positions unless they are proficient in basic written and spoken English. Graduate of a school of professional nursing approved by the appropriate accrediting agency and accredited by one of the following accrediting bodies at the time the program was completed by the applicant: The Accreditation Commission for Education in Nursing (ACEN) or The Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE); OR Individuals attending a master's level bridge program in nursing who have completed coursework equivalent to a bachelor's level degree in Nursing may have opportunity to become registered as a nurse with a state licensing board prior to completion of the bridge program. Upon achievement of a State license, the individual may be appointed on temporary basis and later converted to a permanent appointment upon successful completion and graduation from the bridge program. (Reference VA Handbook 5005, Appendix G6); OR In cases of graduates of foreign schools of professional nursing, possession of a current, full, active, and unrestricted registration will meet the requirement for graduation from an approved school of professional nursing to warrant an appointment as a Nurse who has completed an associated degree/entry level Nursing education program. Credit for foreign nursing education higher that associate degree/entry level requires a formal degree equivalency validation from a recognized equivalency evaluation accepted by VA such as International Consultants of Delaware (ICD). Current, full, active, and unrestricted r
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