Wound Care Nurse

6 days ago


Hamilton, Ontario, Canada St. Joseph's Home Care Full time
Job Summary

St. Joseph's Home Care is seeking a highly skilled and compassionate Registered Nurse to join our team as a Wound Care Specialist. As a key member of our interdisciplinary health team, you will play a vital role in providing high-quality wound care to our clients in their homes and alternative settings.

Key Responsibilities
  • Utilize the nursing process effectively to provide high-quality wound and ostomy care for clients and/or caregivers.
  • Collaborate with the interdisciplinary health team to provide cost-effective, high-quality wound care using best practices.
  • Apply current knowledge and research of wound care protocols to practice.
  • Create a plan of care for patients requiring wound care in the community, in consultation with the physician, CCAC Case Manager, ICCP coordinators, and Primary Nurse.
  • Initiate and modify the plan of nursing care in consultation with the client and/or caregiver.
  • Promote the independence of clients and caregivers, considering their needs, strengths, and weaknesses.
  • Utilize available resources, facilitate clients/caregivers problem-solving, participation in decision-making, and access to appropriate resources.
  • Participate in the evaluation and refinement of the wound care protocol and overall program.
  • Involved in education of other members of the SJHC team on the protocol and usage of products, providing guidance to best treatment choices.
  • Maintain regular communication with supervisor to include review of problems or unique issues and exchange feedback.
  • Participate in bi-weekly nursing case rounds.
Core Competencies
  • Regularly demonstrates our mission, vision, and values: Support compassionate care, faith, and diversity; Deliver quality care, pursue and share knowledge, respect diversity, remain faithful; Commit to working every day with dignity, respect, service, justice, responsibility, and enquiry.
  • Ability to work collaboratively with others; sharing expertise and drawing on the expertise of others.
  • Actively promotes a healthy, supportive, and inclusive work environment.
  • Proactively contributes to initiatives, supporting and encouraging positive change.
  • Ability to engage in effective problem-solving, possess logic and analytical thinking.
  • Skilled at thinking about creative solutions to complex problems.
  • Solid team-based approach to every day work activities.
  • Superior communication skills both verbal and written, with an excellent customer service mindset.
  • Positive and professional, with a 'can do' attitude.
  • Willingness to regularly go the extra mile and actively support co-workers.
  • Ability to demonstrate leadership and mentoring skills, to motivate and help others grow.
  • Strong knowledge of quality outcomes and streaming processes in order to find efficiencies.
  • Superior organizational and planning skills.
  • Proven ability to be detail-oriented.
  • Maintaining ongoing compliance to corporate policies and procedures, health and safety regulations, and relevant external standards.
  • Participating fully in both internal and external training requirements.
  • Participating fully in corporate quality initiatives.
  • Maintaining the privacy and confidentiality of all personal health records (including both client and personal), and following all the privacy and confidentiality requirements of any and all electronic medical record systems used (including but not limited to Procura and HPG).
Key Education and Experience
  • Bachelor of Science Degree from an accredited university, required.
  • Current and unrestricted Registered Nurse license, required.
  • Member in good standing with Ontario College of Nurses, required.
  • A current Ontario driver's license in good standing, required.
  • Proven ability in utilizing MS Office software, including Excel spreadsheets, required.
  • Knowledge of community supports, Home Care community, Acute and LTC, required.
  • Familiar with Procura software, preferred.
  • Certification as a wound care nurse, or equivalent courses; IIWCC course recommended.
  • Minimum of one (1) year recent experience in home care, preferred.
  • Demonstrated excellence in direct client care.
  • Excellent verbal, written communication, and interpersonal skills.

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