Registered Nurse (RN) | Wound Care Center

To meet the demand and assure quality care, ChristianaCare Wound Care and Hyperbaric Medicine Center Cecil County, located at our Riverside building seeks to hire a full time Wound Care RN. We strive for highest level of wound care outcomes, utilization of advanced wound care products, and leverage a multidisciplinary approach to care.

Our wound care center is currently seeking one full time Registered Nurse to join the team and collaborate with physicians and other members of the health care team in providing consistent quality care for patients with wounds. The successful candidates will case manage a group of patients by planning, implementing, and evaluating a plan of care working within both of our wound care centers at Riverside in Wilmington and at our Cecil Campus in Elkton, MD. The successful candidate will work Monday through Friday 8am to 5pm with no weekends or holidays required at this time.

ChristianaCare Benefits:

Incredible Work/Life benefits including annual membership to care.com, access to backup care services for dependents through Care@Work, retirement planning services, financial coaching, fitness and wellness reimbursement, and great discounts through several vendors for hotels, rental cars, theme parks, shows, sporting events, movie tickets and much more!

We also provide tuition assistance for degreed programs, and for some Nursing programs we offer pre-pay. Our medical/dental/vision benefits are available to our caregivers on their first day of employment! And we offer two different mechanisms toward planning for your retirement, a 403(b) and a defined contribution plan.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities:

• Provides direct care for patients in an ambulatory setting through comprehensive assessments, and assessment of diagnostic data and wound evaluations
• Demonstrates knowledge and understanding of common wound etiologies and wound standard of care
• Performs ordered treatments including but not limited to vital signs, blood sugars, vascular assessments and ABIs, wound assessments, phlebotomy, medication administration, and specimen collection and handling
• Prepares and implements a plan of care for the wound patient collaborating with the physician and other health team members
• Demonstrates competent utilization of interview, examination and observation techniques in obtaining patient history and wound history information
• Demonstrates competence in assessing patient and family learning needs and developing a plan to meet all areas of learning needs
• Demonstrates skills and knowledge necessary to provide care appropriate for adolescent, adult and geriatric patients, including knowledge of growth and development, the ability to obtain and interpret information to identify patient needs, and provide the care needed

Education and Experience Requirements:

• Registered Nurse with current state license in good standing
• Bachelor's of Nursing required
• Two years experience in acute care nursing
• Experience in an ambulatory care setting
• Must be able to train at ChristianaCare Wound Care Center at Riverside for a minimum of month
• Once oriented must be willing to support cross coverage between the Wound Centers if need (emergent coverage needs only as needed)

Christiana Care Health System is an equal opportunity employer, firmly committed to prohibiting discrimination, whose staff is reflective of its community, and considers qualified applicants for open positions without regard to race, color, sex, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, genetic information, gender identity or expression, age, veteran status, disability, pregnancy, citizenship status, or any other characteristic protected under applicable federal, state, or local law.

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EEO Posting Statement

ChristianaCare offers a competitive suite of employee benefits to maximize the wellness of you and your family, including health insurance, paid time off, retirement, an employee assistance program. To learn more about our benefits for eligible positions visit https://careers.christianacare.org/benefits-compensation/