Wound Care

Overview

Wound care involves every stage of skin and wound management to promote healing and prevent infection. This includes determining the wound type, considering factors that affect wound healing, and appropriate treatments for wound management.

Wound care nurses provide specialized care that has a tremendous positive impact on patient outcomes. They have distinct and specialized knowledge to work with a variety of patients to assess skin tears, deep wounds, ostomies, burns, pressure injuries and diabetic foot wounds. They create a plan of care that staff nurses follow.

Locations

• Cape Fear Valley Medical Center Inpatient Wound Care 
  • Nurses specialize in prevention of skin breakdown, assessing and treating patients with complex wounds, ostomies, and continence conditions. They utilize nurse-driven protocols and collaborate with providers to develop personalized wound-care treatment plans.
• Highsmith Rainey Specialty Hospital Wound Care 
  • Nurses focus on the clinical management of complex wounds and other skin issues. They are an integral part of the Joint Commission Wound Care Disease Specific Certification team. They participate in creating standards regarding wound care and facilitate initiatives to assess and improve performance.
• Wound Care and Hyperbaric Center
  • Nurses provide specialized treatment for patients with chronic or non-healing wounds to include debridement, hyperbaric oxygen therapy and dressing selection in an outpatient program. 

Candidates

One year nursing experience preferred. Wound Care Certified (WCC) or Wound, Ostomy and Continence Nursing (WOCN) certification preferred. Excellent patient education skills. Specialized training provided to evaluate, plan, and implement care for complex wounds. One year of nursing experience preferred. BLS and ACLS required per unit (courses provided by CFVHS). Professional growth through academic advancement, specialty certification, and Clinical Ladder participation are encouraged.