Wound Care Nurse

Job Description

Business Unit: Riyadh Care Hospital.Duties and Responsibilities1. General Duties:

• The wound care nurses have to treat the skin reactions of the patients.
• They have to treat or manage vascular ulcers, diabetic ulcers and all the other type of ulcers.
• Treat all the types of open wounds, scars or skin infections.
• Preventing the skin breakdown.
• Taking proper measures to prevent the wound from getting worse and providing proper care to the patient.
• Treating and assessing the draining wounds and fistulae problems.
• Practicing the comprehensive wound management to control odor and performing causative factors.
• The wound care nurse have to assess all the nutritional needs to the patient and providing the topical therapies to them.
• They have to design pouch systems for draining fistulae and wounds of the patient.
• Educating and supporting the patient morally and emotionally is also a part of the responsibilities of a wound care nurse.
• They also have to provide emotional support to the patient?s family and educate them of all the necessary care and wound.
• They have to learn to provide all the instructions to dress the wound and treat them in the right manner.
• Implementing preventive measures in order to reduce the incidences of ulcers and wounds is also an important part of the duty of a wound care nurse.
• Educating the patient about the wound or ulcers and make him aware of the treatments done on him.
• Examining the wounds or problem of the patient and preparing the list of tests or examinations needed.
• Providing proper setting to the patient to treat him.
• Helping and assisting the wound care physician and giving him all the help needed.
• To coordinate with the medical team to provide proper treatment to the patient.
• Examining the recovery of the patient and altering the medications as needed.

2. Quality Improvement:

• Knows the Nursing Department?s Key Performance Indicators and standards of compliance.
• Participates and promotes continuous quality improvement activities,
• Participates in all nursing quality improvement initiatives including implementation and evaluation of action plans.
• Complies with Safety and Infection Control Policies, Procedures and Guidelines.
• Ensures sustainability of compliance to JCIA and CBAHI accreditation standards.
• Ensures on time reporting of incidents / accidents.
• Participate in nursing councils and journal clubs

3. Attitude & Professionalism:

• Observes all aspects of confidentiality.
• Maintains good, professional working relationship with colleagues and other members of the multidisciplinary team.
• Resolves conflict promptly with appropriate documentation and reports to Head Nurse.
• Follows appropriate chain of command for request, handling conflicts and misunderstanding in a positive manner to achieve satisfactory solution.

4. Professional Development

• Responsible for identifying own learning needs, seeking educational opportunities and utilizing available resources.
• Remains current in the latest in nursing practice.
• Participates in unit and departmental educational activities including preceptorship to nursing staff orientees.
• Completes relevant study programs, unit-specific and mandatory nursing competencies within the specified time frames, i.e.BCLS, Fire Training, etc.

1. Patient and Family Education

• Responsible to educate patients /families as per their needs and to implement their whole role regarding patient / family education process as mention in patient & family education policy and procedure including documentation in patient medical record.
• They are knowledgeable about their essential role in patient and family education.
• Involves the patient/families in plan of care and respects patients/families regarding their goals and choices of patient care.

Provides health promotion and health teaching thru methods appropriate to a patients? developmental level, learning needs, readiness and ability to learn, language preference, culture and situations.

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