Wound Supervisor
Full time
at Intermountain Health
in
United States
Posted on January 25, 2025
Job details
Wound Supervisor at Intermountain Health summary:
The Wound Supervisor oversees clinical and leadership operations in the Wound Care/Ostomy and Hyperbaric department, ensuring quality patient care and adherence to safety standards. This role includes direct patient interactions, staff management, and the development of clinical guidelines in collaboration with interdisciplinary teams. The Supervisor is responsible for addressing patient complaints, coordinating human resource activities, and promoting evidence-based practices. Job Description: The Supervisor RN Wound Care/Ostomy and Hyperbaric supports the fundamentals of safety, quality, experience and stewardship by providing clinical expertise and leadership to their department or departments. As a part of the chain of command , this role will participate in direct patient care and have significant leadership responsibilities. The Supervisor RN Wound Care/Ostomy and Hyperbaric has accountability for coordination of a cohort of caregivers and actively participates in the overall operations , development of inpractice, and provision of patient care with specified accountabilities for implementation and outcomes. The Supervisor RN Wound Care/Ostomy and Hyperbaric supports and enforces policies/procedures to ensure safe, efficient and effective patient care. Job Description Posting Specifics- Benefits Eligible: Yes
- Shift Details: Monday-Friday 8am to 4:30pm, occasional weekends
- Unit/Location: Would and Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy Department
- Additional Details: This role will be 50% clinical and 50% leadership
- Shares responsibility with the department leader for the day-to-day operations.
- Integrates with enterprise leadership and teams on goals and improvement initiatives.
- Manages patient complaints and concerns promptly.
- Responsible for initial coaching of staff on performance issues.
- Facilitates communication between inpatient and outpatient wound/ostomy/hyperbaric teams.
- Ensures cost-effective use of staff by ensuring appropriate nurse to patient ratio and utilization of staff by monitoring use of premium pay, agency, cancellations, etc.
- Coordinates and collaborates with the interdisciplinary team in the development of evidence-based clinical guidelines and treatment protocols.
- Participates in community outreach/preventative wound and ostomy services
- Assists in coordination of the gathering of data, planning, implementation, and evaluation of programs/projects.
- Assists with human resource activities such as interviewing, hiring, coaching, mentoring, disciplining and evaluating staff.
- Facilitates completion of performance audits in an appropriate timeframe including but not limited to Core Measures, Joint Commission Indicators, and National Patient Safety Goals.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
- May be required to be placed on-call during a regularly scheduled shift.
- Hiring
- Human Resources (HR)
- Patient Services
- Patient Safety
- Patient Satisfaction
- Taking Initiative
- Quality Improvement
- Current RN License upon hire
- Current BLS certification upon hire
- Current wound certification upon hire or within 1 year of hire
- Current Ostomy certification or ability to obtain within 2 1 year of hire
- Previous high volume clinic experience in an outpatient setting
- Minimum of 2 years’ experience in acute medical surgical nursing. To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements list must be representative of the knowledge, skills, minimum education, training, licensure, experience, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- Ongoing need for employee to see and read information, labels, assess patient needs, operate monitors, identify equipment and
- Frequent interactions with patient care providers, patients, and visitors that require employee to verbally communicate as well as hear and understand spoken information, alarms, needs, and issues quickly and accurately, particularly during emergency situations.
- Manual dexterity of hands and fingers to manipulate complex and delicate equipment with precision and accuracy. This includes: Expected to lift and utilize full range of movement to transfer patients. Will also bend to retrieve, lift, and carry supplies and equipment. Typically includes items of varying weights, up to and including heavy items.
Keywords:
wound care, ostomy, hyperbaric therapy, patient safety, nursing leadership, clinical expertise, healthcare management, patient satisfaction, evidence-based practice, staff trainingApply safely
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