Registered Nurse, Part Time Days, 8a - 4p, Wound Care Center, Atlantic Health, Hackettstown Medical Center

Job description

Responsible for working with other healthcare professionals to help treat patients with various injuries, illnesses or disabilities. Monitors patients, administers medications, keeps records, consults with healthcare providers, educates patients and more. Principal Accountabilities: 1. ASSESSMENT Performs patient assessments, implements care plan, adheres to established standards of care. Identifies the physical, psychosocial and teaching/ learning needs of Outpatients/Inpatients with wounds and/or ostomy patients. Maintains a systematic approach to pertinent data collection from the patient or family/caregiver as appropriate and documents data in the electronic medical record. Collaborates with patients, physicians, family, significant others and other healthcare professionals to obtain pertinent data to help develop plan of care. Reports all data to physician. 2. CASE MANAGEMENT The RN will have a physician(s) assigned to manage the patients needs. This will entail the following: weekly meetings with assigned WHC physician to go over patients not meeting benchmarks-4 week 20% healed, 8 week 60% healed, 12 weeks 90% healed, 16 weeks 100%. Accepts accountability for meeting patient...