Wound Care Nurse Practitioner
CareMed Group
Date: 3 days ago
City: Wichita, KS
Contract type: Full time
Description
Company Description
CareMed Health Solutions is a facility-based team of medical providers who provide medical services to patients living in long-term care facilities. We strive to give quality care to residents while working together with the facility to carry out the best care possible. While an interdisciplinary care team provides medical care to patients in long-term care facilities, you will have the opportunity to impact in a positive way the life and wellbeing of the elderly population.
We are currently seeking Wound Care Nurse Practitioners to provide wound services to patients living in long-term care facilities.
WOUND NP ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
Company Description
CareMed Health Solutions is a facility-based team of medical providers who provide medical services to patients living in long-term care facilities. We strive to give quality care to residents while working together with the facility to carry out the best care possible. While an interdisciplinary care team provides medical care to patients in long-term care facilities, you will have the opportunity to impact in a positive way the life and wellbeing of the elderly population.
We are currently seeking Wound Care Nurse Practitioners to provide wound services to patients living in long-term care facilities.
WOUND NP ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Provide wound care services for long-term care patients residing in skilled nursing facilities.
- Prescribe appropriate medications, including controlled substances in accordance with KS Law.
- Order, review, and/or follow-up with treatments and diagnostic testing.
- Communicate with the nursing home staff on a regular and as needed to discuss changes in condition.
- and/or the care plan.
- Collaborate with the primary care physician.
- Current, unrestricted NP license in the state of Kansas.
- Board Certification.
- DEA licensure (Optional)
- Clinical background in adult, family, or geriatric specialties.
- Clinical background of wound care; including but not limited to chronic, debilitating, stalled, or infected wounds
- Must be comfortable with diagnosing and treating diabetic, arterial, venous, and mixed etiology wounds or Kennedy Ulcers.
- Must be comfortable staging pressure injuries according to the NPIAP
- Must be familiar with wound care best practice and advanced wound care products; collagens, alginates, foams, silvers, etc.
- Must have experience with wound vacs and other DME, such as pressure relieving/ reducing devices
- Strong preference to having wound certification or be open to getting certified
- Experience working in a long-term care setting.
- Ability to work with an EMR.
- Ability to work within an interdisciplinary care team to coordinate patient care.
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