Westmoreland
Health and Rehabilitation Center is seeking a Wound Care Nurse to join
our family!

All
Your Needs. All Our Hearts.

Westmoreland
located in beautiful Knoxville, Tennessee is the second largest facility of its
kind in the city. This healthcare center offers care for our residents and
patients who rely on us for life enrichment and quality of care.

We
offer an array of employment opportunities for all types of professional
interests. We offer competitive wages and benefits, tuition assistance and
professional advancement programs.

The
Healthcare Center offers Respite Care, continuing Long-term Care, Memory Care,
and Rehabilitation. Westmoreland has been a valuable part of the community for
the past 40 years.

Location: 5837 Lyons View Pike, Knoxville TN 37919

Compensation:
$35-$40 per
hour (RN) / $26-$29 (LPN) 

 

Your Role in the Company

You will understand the
anatomy and physiology associated with the body's ability to compensate and
heal.   Science will drive our therapeutic treatments.  
Skin integrity will occur because your scientific mind will lead to practical
solutions for our patient's recovery.   Your skin technique assures
patient comfort. 

Assessing is critical to
proper intervention.  Our nursing team will rely on you to understand and
treat skin in the most effective ways.   You are familiar with the
latest innovation surrounding wound management, and you are a natural teacher
to our nurses who are introduced only to the basics in their professional
education. 

In your role, you will
take the complexity of wound prevention and healing and apply it to patient
care.   Your experience in wound care brings added value to the
interdisciplinary team who pride themselves on exemplary quality care.   The
team will rely on your documentation, not only as it relates to treatment, but
also, to educate families.   Your presence in quality assurance and
risk prevention programs is critical.

Healing is bound to the
basics. Positioning, diet, and bowel and bladder functions influence the
likelihood of healthy skin.   So does compliance.  Your ability
to intervene with proven solutions will be revealed in patient outcomes. 

Sometimes there is pain
in recovery only minimized by our patients trust and reliance on you. 
Comfort care is uniquely associated with progressive degenerative
diagnosis.  Defining comfort care comes from your wisdom and heart. 

Care and compassion will
embody your healing hands. 

 

Apply Now!  We are
looking for the perfect you.

Elements of the Position

• Ability to perform wound
  assessment, reassessment and management for all patients and per
  policy.  This includes neonate, pediatric, geriatric, and the general
  population.
• Knowledge of the anatomy and
  physiology and disorders of the gastrointestinal, genitourinary and dermal
  systems.
• Utilizes principles of current
  wound management theory when providing care to patients with acute and
  
  chronic wounds.
• Demonstrates thorough knowledge
  of staging system of wounds.
• Develops skin care programs to
  prevent skin breakdown of patients.

 

Qualifications

• Graduate of an accredited school
  of nursing with current state licensure as a Licensed Practical Nurse
  (LPN) or Registered Nurse (RN).
• Minimum of two (2) years'
  experience in medical/surgical, rehabilitation nursing. Certified
  Wound, Ostomy and Continence Nurse (CWOCN) or Certified
  Wound Care Nurse (CWCN) essential.
• Must be well motivated,
  organized, and able to prioritize multiple tasks.
• Must be able to interact
  effectively with a wide variety of people.
• Excellent communication skills.
  Able to serve as an example to other employees.
• Ability to learn & train.

 

C ourage and Commitment to Exceed Expectations

O ptimistic about our Future

M otivate Yourself and Others

P atient Hearts Giving Passionate Care

A chieve Success with Integrity

S ervant Leadership, Valued Employees

S trength Through Perseverance

I nspired Excellence

O neness with Teamwork

N urture with Loving Kindness

 

We are an Equal
Employment Opportunity Employer. We maintain a drug-free workplace and
perform pre-employment substance abuse testing. All your information will
be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

 WES-CMP

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