Registered Nurse (Wound Care) - Flex Casual

Quick Facts

• Role: Registered Nurse (Flex Casual) with wound care focus

Description

Provide individualized, age-specific nursing care from admission through discharge, ensuring ethical, evidence-based practice. You will assess and document patient needs, develop and maintain the plan of care, and evaluate outcomes while educating patients and families. Collaborate with patients, families, and the multidisciplinary healthcare team to ensure continuity of care.

Responsibilities

• Assess and record patient status on admission/entry; identify immediate care needs
• Organize and validate assessment data; identify problems requiring attention
• Collaborate to validate nursing diagnoses and document diagnoses for outcome planning
• Initiate and update the problem list; incorporate age-specific care principles
• Ensure the individualized plan of care is discussed and agreed upon with patient/family
• Begin discharge planning at admission with input from patient/family and care team
• Identify teaching needs and provide evidence-based patient/family education
• Prioritize and organize nursing interventions based on established standards
• Document assessments, interventions, and patient responses; keep plan of care updated
• Reassess nursing actions and document progression toward expected outcomes
• Identify unmet outcomes, direct continuity of care, and make appropriate referrals
• Communicate with patient/family and healthcare team; present patient info in multidisciplinary meetings

Requirements

• BSN
• Current Illinois Registered Professional Nurse license
• AHA Basic Life Support (BLS)
• Strong interpersonal skills, ability to collaborate, and strong analytic abilities
• ADN acceptable only with commitment to obtain a BSN within 3 years of the first day in the clinical nurse role
• Unit-specific certifications (if assigned): ACLS, PALS/ENPC, TNCC, Pediatric Advanced Life Support as specified—within 1 year of hire

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits supporting physical, emotional, and financial well-being
• Benefits details available via the employer benefits page (eligibility depends on employment classification)
• Sign-on bonus eligibility rules may apply (internal employees/rehires within 1 year are not eligible; certain new graduate internal RNs may be eligible)