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Registered Nurse (RN) - Home Health Wound Care Specialist

  • R0040757
  • NEWCOMB HALL, Virginia, United States, 22904
  • Nursing
  • University of Virginia
Sign on bonus available for eligible candidates!

Previous experience in Wound and Ostomy Care (WOC) preferred.

If no WOC experience, team member must successfully obtain wound and ostomy certifications within 12 months of hire (examples, but not limited to: CWON Certified Wound Ostomy Nurse; CWOCN Certified Wound, Ostomy, Continence Nurse; CWCN Certified Wound Care Nurse; and COCN Certified Ostomy Care Nurse)

Are you interested in joining a supportive and brilliant team while providing patients high-quality and state-of-the-art care? The home care RN is a dynamic professional clinician focused on population management with demonstrated capability to provide relationship-based care within a multidisciplinary team.

The Home Health Care RN utilizes advanced critical thinking to develop, implement, and evaluate an individualized plan of care for a variety of complex patients in collaboration with patients, families, physicians, and the Continuum therapy staff. Continuum’s goal is to educate and empower patients and families and achieve exceptional patient outcomes. Specific skills you will use and develop as a Continuum home health nurse are complex wound care, infusion care, and more!!

The Home Health Care RN is an experienced clinician focused on expanding knowledge and skills. Consistently provides effective direct care to patients in their homes for an assigned caseload of patients; as part of the interdisciplinary team; oversees the care planning and care coordination for a variety of complex patients. Manages care and implements treatment plans at a refined skill level in collaboration with patients their families Physicians and other members of the health care team and in compliance with homecare standards and regulatory requirements. Seeks as well as provides feedback for improved clinical practice. Assumes a beginning leadership role but seeks mentoring in this process.

At UVA Health, you will be joining a team of nationally recognized physicians, nurses, surgeons, and specialists known for their quality of care, positive outcomes, innovative treatments, technologies, and research.

UVA Health offers a comprehensive benefits package including:

EXCELLENT BENEFITS:
Medical
Dental
Vision
Paid Time Off, Sick Time
Tuition Reimbursement, a
401k/403B with matching funds
Long term/Short term Care Insurance
Benefit Savings Accounts
Dependent Care and Community Employee Benefits
Career Advancement Opportunities

MISSION
Transforming health and inspiring hope for all Virginians and beyond.

VISION
To be the nation’s leading public academic health system and best place to work - while transforming patient care, research, education and engagement with the diverse communities we serve.

ASPIRE VALUES
Accountability
Stewardship
Professionalism
Integrity
Respect
Equity

ANA Scope and Standards of Practice definition of nursing:

Nursing is the protection, promotion, and optimization of health and abilities, prevention of illness and injury, facilitation of healing, alleviation of suffering through the diagnosis and treatment of human response, and advocacy in the care of individuals, families, groups, communities and populations.

This job description integrates the ANA 2015 Nursing: Scope and Standards of Practice, Third Edition and the ANA Code of Ethics for Nurses with Interpretive Statements (ANA, 2015), and the UVA Nursing Professional Practice Model.
  • Relationship Based Care - Self and Colleagues: reflects the influence of the nurse’s relationship with self, colleagues and patient/family on the patient experience.
  • Relationship Based Care - Patients and Families: reflects the influence of the nurse’s relationship with self, colleagues and patient/family on the patient experience.
  • Expert Caring: encompasses clinical assessment, planning, prioritizing, coordinating and implementation of care.
  • Empowered Leaders: demonstrate knowledge of and actively participate in shared governance.
  • Lifelong Learners: encompasses professional development through formal education, professional certification, internal and external learning opportunities and recognizes the value of external professional organizations. Supports onboarding of new team members and precepts as applicable.
  • Quality Achievement: includes adherence to clinical documentation guidelines, comprehension of outcomes data, engagement in performance improvement activities and commitment to standard work.
  • Innovation: is demonstrated by application of technologies that support patient care, actively seeking to implement evidence based practice and new knowledge generated by nursing research.
  • In addition to the above job responsibilities, other duties may be assigned.


Position Compensation Range: $82,992.00 - $110,240.00 Annual

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:
  • Education: Graduate of an accredited nursing program required. Bachelor of Science in Nursing required within 5 years of hire.
  • Experience: 1 year of Relevant Experience
  • Licensure: Licensed to Practice as a Registered Nurse in the Commonwealth of Virginia required. Valid Virginia Driver’s License required. American Heart Association (AHA) Health Care Provider BLS certification required.


Job may require sitting for prolonged periods, frequently standing, traveling, bending/stooping. Proficient communicative, auditory and visual skills; Attention to detail and ability to write legibly; Ability to lift/push/pull 20 - 50lbs. May be exposed to chemicals, blood/body fluids and infectious disease.

The University of Virginia, i ncluding the UVA Health System which represents the UVA Medical Center, Schools of Medicine and Nursing, UVA Physician’s Group and the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library, are fundamentally committed to the diversity of our faculty and staff. We believe diversity is excellence expressing itself through every person's perspectives and lived experiences. We are equal opportunity and affirmative action employers. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, color, disability, gender identity or expression, marital status, national or ethnic origin, political affiliation, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, veteran status, and family medical or genetic information.

 

Each agency within the Commonwealth of Virginia is dedicated to recruiting, supporting, and maintaining a competent and diverse work force. Equal Opportunity Employer

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