Registered Nurse​/RN OP Wound Care

Overview

Join our team as a day shift, full-time, Outpatient Wound Care Registered Nurse (RN) in Tyler, TX.

• Thrive:
  We empower our team with career growth opportunities, tuition assistance, and resources that support your wellness, education, and financial well-being.
• People-First:
  We prioritize your well-being with paid time off, comprehensive health benefits, and a supportive, inclusive culture where you are valued and cared for.
• Make Healthcare Better:
  We use advanced technology to support our team and enhance patient care.

• UT Health Tyler is the flagship hospital of the system serving hundreds of thousands annually. Specializing in advanced acute care medicine, our midtown location boasts a Level 1 trauma center and comprehensive stroke center, the region?s only EMCO program and a Level III NICU. Our medical staff includes more than 500 physicians and a full complement of subspecialty groups.

• The Wound Nurse is a multifaceted, evidence-based, registered nurse specialty which incorporates a unique body of knowledge to provide excellence in prevention, health maintenance, therapeutic intervention, and nursing care to select patients.
• This complex, interdependent nursing specialty encompasses all patient populations across the continuum of care.
• The wound nurse directs efforts at guiding optimal patient care that improves the quality of life for individuals with wound, ostomy, and continence concerns, achieving positive clinical outcomes through its unique scope of practice.
• This nursing specialty demonstrated experience in specific areas of clinical practice further developed through specialty certification.
• The wound nurse additionally utilizes the nursing process in the following major areas: practice, education, consultation, research, and admission.

Job Requirements:

• Associates Degree in Nursing (ADN)
• Must maintain current Texas RN License
• BLS certification must be obtained within 14 days of hire or transfer into the role and prior to providing direct patient care

• Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) Certified
• Wound and ostomy experience
• Certification by the WOCN or working toward certification