Registered Nurse - Clinic - Wound Care

It's more than a career, it's a calling

WI-SSM Health Dean Medical Group South Madison Campus

Worker Type:

Regular

Job Highlights:

🩹 Registered Nurse - Wound Care | Madison, WI

Transform healing. Build relationships. Change lives.

Join SSM Health's Wound Care team and make a lasting impact on patients through specialized, hands-on care that helps improve healing, mobility, and quality of life. This is an excellent opportunity for an RN who enjoys developing meaningful patient relationships and wants to grow in a rewarding specialty. No prior wound care experience is required, just a passion for patient care and an interest in learning wound management. Enjoy a consistent daytime schedule, Wednesdays off, and no on-call responsibilities.

Why you'll love it:

• 🩹 Specialty nursing with training and growth opportunities

• ❤️ Build long-term relationships with patients throughout their healing journey

• 📅 Consistent daytime hours: 8:00 AM - 4:30 PM

• 🌟 Wednesdays off every week

• 🚫 No on-call requirements

• 🤝 Collaborative, patient-centered care team environment

• 📈 Opportunity to develop expertise in a highly valued nursing specialty

If you're passionate about helping patients heal and thrive, this is your chance to build a rewarding career in wound care with SSM Health.

Job Summary:

Provides direct nursing care in accordance with established policies, procedures and protocols of the healthcare organization.

Job Responsibilities and Requirements:

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Implements and monitors patient care plans. Monitors, records and communicates patient condition as appropriate.

• Serves as a primary coordinator of all disciplines for well-coordinated patient care.

• Notes and carries out physician and nursing orders.

• Assesses and coordinates patient's discharge planning needs with members of the healthcare team.

• May round with physician in an inpatient setting.

• Applies the existing body of evidence-based practice and scientific knowledge in health care to nursing practice, ensuring that nursing care is delivered based on patient’s age-specific needs and clinical needs as described in the department's Scope of Service.

• As an SSM Health nurse, I will demonstrate the professional nursing standards defined in the professional practice model. Uses the ANA Code of Ethics for Nurses to guide his/her response to the current and evolving health and nursing needs of our patients and our patient populations.

• Works in a constant state of alertness and safe manner.

• Performs other duties as assigned.

EDUCATION

• Graduate of accredited school of nursing or education equivalency for licensing

EXPERIENCE

• No experience required

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS

• Constant use of speech to share information through oral communication.

• Constant standing and walking.

• Frequent lifting/carrying and pushing/pulling objects weighing 0-25 lbs.

• Frequent sitting, reaching and keyboard use/data entry.

• Frequent use of vision and depth perception for distances near (20 inches or less) and far (20 feet or more) and to identify and distinguish colors.

• Frequent use of smell to detect/recognize odors.

• Frequent use of hearing to receive oral communication, distinguish body sounds and/or hear alarms, malfunctioning machinery, etc.

• Occasional lifting/carrying and pushing/pulling objects weighing 25-50 lbs.

• Occasional lifting/moving of patients.

• Occasional bending, stooping, kneeling, squatting, twisting, gripping and repetitive foot/leg and hand/arm movements.

• Occasional driving.

• Rare crawling and running.

REQUIRED PROFESSIONAL LICENSE AND/OR CERTIFICATIONS

State of Work Location: Illinois

• Basic Life Support HealthCare Provider (BLS HCP) - American Heart Association (AHA)

• And

• Registered Professional Nurse (RN) - Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation (IDFPR)

State of Work Location: Missouri

• Basic Life Support HealthCare Provider (BLS HCP) - American Heart Association (AHA)

• And

• Registered Nurse (RN) - Missouri Division of Professional Registration

• Or

• Registered Nurse (RN) Issued by Compact State

State of Work Location: Oklahoma

• Basic Life Support HealthCare Provider (BLS HCP) - American Heart Association (AHA)

• And

• Registered Nurse (RN) Issued by Compact State

• Or

• Registered Nurse (RN) - Oklahoma Board of Nursing (OBN)

State of Work Location: Wisconsin

• Basic Life Support HealthCare Provider (BLS HCP) - American Heart Association (AHA)

• And

• Registered Nurse (RN) Issued by Compact State

• Or

• Registered Nurse (RN) - Wisconsin Department of Safety and Professional Services

Work Shift:

Day Shift (United States of America)

Job Type:

Employee

Department:

5300010164 SMC Wound Care

Scheduled Weekly Hours:

32

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