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Posted: 02-Oct-25
Location: Durham, North Carolina
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Internal Number: 258520
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About Duke Regional Hospital
Pursue your passion for caring with Duke Regional Hospital in Durham, North Carolina. With 388 beds it is the second largest of Duke Health's four hospitals and offers a comprehensive range of medical, surgical, and diagnostic services, including orthopedics, weight-loss surgery, women's services, and heart and vascular services.
Position Summary
The Wound, Ostomy, and Continence Nurse Clinician (WOC NC) provide leadership in the care of patients with stomas, draining wounds, or incontinence, throughout the organization. This includes the utilization of clinical expertise to provide preoperative and postoperative care, counseling, and teaching to patients 0-99 years of age in need of wound, ostomy, and/or continence management. S/he has primary responsibility for educating nurses to ensure knowledge and competency in basic wound, ostomy, and continence management; and works collaboratively with the interdisciplinary team in a variety of specialties in planning and coordinating the care. The WOCN Nurse Clinician is an integral part of multiple teams, as a clinician, educator, consultant, and leader.
General Description of the Job Class
Independently plan and provide professional nursing care for patients in accordance with physician orders and established policies and procedures. Provide nursing services to patients and families in accordance with the scope of the RN as defined by the North Carolina Board of Nursing. Nurses hired into this limited benefited classification will commit to work a minimum number of hours in a designated inpatient nursing department. Compensation is a flat rate.
Duties and Responsibilities of this Level
? Plan and provide professional nursing care for patients in accordance with physician orders and
established policies and procedures (Direct Care)
? Identifies patient caseload through referrals and active case finding
? Conducts complete and accurate patient assessment
? Provides specialized nursing treatment, care and education to patients with wounds
? Provides specialized nursing treatment, care, stomal siting, and education to patients undergoing
urinary or stool diversion in accordance with physician/nursing orders and established policies and
procedures
? Provides specialized nursing treatment, care, and education to patients with draining wounds or
requiring continence management or other specialized urologic interventions (such as clean intermittent
self-catheterization or continuous bladder irrigation)
? Selects, develops and/or implements evidence-based clinical interventions and systems to achieve
defined patient and system outcomes
? Serves as a resource to patients and families, providing preoperative counseling and follow-up problem
solving after discharge from the hospital
? Utilizes comprehensive assessment skills in the evaluation of stoma and wound care products and
supplies in an effort to provide quality, cost-effective care
? Assist patients and families with the understanding of their diagnosis and the management thereof
? Identifies patient/family education needs and priorities
? Coaches patients and families to help them navigate the healthcare system
? Utilizes teaching and learning theories to assist patients and families with physical and emotional impact of body changes and chronic illness
? Provides additional information/community resources to enhance the patient's quality of life as it relates
to the alterations in body image and life style
? Participates in developing, implementing and evaluating patient education resources and programs
appropriate to the patient's developmental level, health literacy level, learning needs, readiness to
learn, and cultural values and beliefs
? Assesses learning needs of nursing staff; participate in planning and implementing appropriate
educational forums and opportunities to address critical learning needs and skills
? Assist nursing personnel in the delivery of nursing care functioning as an integral member of the
multidisciplinary team
? Establishes collaborative relationships within and across departments that promote patient safety,
culturally competent care, and clinical excellence
? Serves as a resource and consultant to nursing members of the healthcare community and to the larger
community in areas of wound, ostomy, and continence management strategies
? Practices collegially with medical staff and other members of the healthcare team
? Participates in and supports accreditation and regulatory activities of Duke Hospital
? Facilitates the provision of clinically competent care by staff/team through education, role modeling,
teambuilding, and quality monitoring
? Role models advanced practice professional nursing through conduct, appearance, communication,
mutual respect, leadership, ethical decision-making, critical thinking, continuous learning and problemsolving
skills
? Uses effective strategies for changing clinician and team behavior to encourage adoption of evidencebased
practices and innovations in care delivery
? Assist in the development and implementation of general policies and procedures and quality
improvement designed to effect efficiency of operations
? Participates in nursing and interdisciplinary process improvement projects, product evaluation, outcome
evaluation studies, and / or clinical research
? Uses quality-monitoring data to assess the quality and effectiveness of clinical programs in meeting
outcomes
? Promotes evidence-based practice through participation in developing, implementing, and evaluating
process standards such as plans of care, protocols, and guidelines
? Applies principles of evidence-based practice and quality improvement to all patient care
Required Qualifications at this Level
Education
Work requires graduation from an accredited Bachelors Degree in Nursing program.
Experience
2 years of appropriate clinical experience required
Degrees, Licensure, and/or Certification
- Must have current licensure in the State of North Carolina or compact RN licensure.
- BLS required.
- Nationally recognized certification in Wound and Ostomy management is required. WON or WOCN (Nationally recognized certification in Wound, Ostomy, and Continence certification, can also accept Wound Ostomy Nurse certification).
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
- Knowledge of scope of the registered nurse, licensed practical nurse and unlicensed staff
- Knowledge of and appropriate application of the nursing process
- Knowledge of professional theory, practice and procedure
- Ability to assess nursing needs of acute and chronically ill patients and their families
- Ability to independently seek out resources and work collaboratively
- Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships
- Ability to communicate clearly with patients, families, visitors, healthcare team, physicians, administrators, leadership and others
- Ability to teach patients and families in accordance with the nursing plan of care
- Ability to use sensory and cognitive functions to process and prioritize information, treatment, and follow-up
- Ability to use fine motor skills
- Competent in BLS and/or other specialized life support requirements designated by work area
- Ability to record activities, document assessments, plan of care, interventions, evaluation and re-evaluation of patient status
- Ability to use computer and learn new software programs
- Able to document and communicate pertinent information using computer and/or paper documentation tools
- Ability to navigate the entity to provide clinical care for patients
- Ability to withstand prolonged standing and walking
- Ability to remain focused and organized
- Working knowledge of procedures and techniques involved in administering routine and special treatments to patients
- Working knowledge of infection control procedures and safety precautions
- Working knowledge and completion of appropriate The Joint Commission (TJC) and other regulatory requirements
- Pre-employment Physical Capacity Testing Required
The intent of this job description is to provide a representative and level of the types of duties and responsibilities that will be required of positions given this title and shall not be construed as a declaration of the total of the specific duties and responsibilities of any particular position. Employees may be directed to perform job-related tasks other than those specifically presented in this description.
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