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)

The Wound Ostomy Care Nurse partners with inter-professional teams to provide consultation, education, leadership, and direct care for patients with wound, ostomy, fistula, and incontinence needs. Other responsibilities include:

• Actively participates within an interdisciplinary team; providing advanced clinical guidance to physicians and nursing staff regarding the management of complex wounds, fistulas, moisture management, and pressure injuries. Effectively advocates for patient-centered care.

• Provides leadership in hospital-wide pressure injury prevention initiatives, wound care and ostomy care, to include supporting pressure injury prevalence data collection, evidence-based policies, procedures, and protocols, and advisement of appropriate support surfaces, products, and staff decision-making algorithms.

• Provides consultation and direct patient care for new ostomy patients. Performs appropriate pre-operative stoma site marking. Develops and conducts pre-operative and post-operative ostomy education, ostomy care plan for the patient and family, and emotional support. Recommends materials and resources needed for ostomy care at home.

• Evaluates innovative wound, ostomy, and skin care products and devices. Influences product choice through collaboration with other departments and teams.

• Develops WOC related policy, procedure, and practice protocols or guidelines.

Provides education to patients, family, and other healthcare professionals individually and in group settings.

• Develops and conducts educational programs and clinical instruction for UVA Health staff.

UVA Health offers a comprehensive benefits package including Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance, Paid Time Off, Long-term and Short-term Disability, Retirement Savings Plans, and Flexible Spending Accounts.

Additional benefits:

•     Sign-on bonus’s available for eligible candidates

•     Certification and Education support after 6 months employment

•     Generous Paid Time Off

•     Clinical Career Ladder for Professional Growth and promotion

Capable clinician, focused on expanding knowledge and skills. Consistently provides effective direct care, as part of the interdisciplinary team, to 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. Seeks as well as provides feedback for improved clinical practice. Assumes a beginning leadership role but seeks mentoring in this process.

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 educatio​n, 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: $39.90 - $53.00 Hourly

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. American Heart Association (AHA) Health Care Provider BLS certification required.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

Job requires standing for prolonged periods, frequently 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.