Treatment Nurse

Village Healthcare Rehab

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POSITION SUMMARY: The primary purpose of your job position is to plan, organize, develop, and direct our infection control program and its activities in accordance with current federal, state, and local standards, guidelines, and regulations that govern such programs, and as may be directed by the Administrator and the Infection Control Committee to ensure that an effective infection control program is maintained at all times.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: Every effort has been made to identify the essential functions of this position.

However, it in no way states or implies that these are the only duties you will be required to perform.

The omission of specific statements of duties does not exclude them from the position if the work is similar, related, or is an essential function of the position.

• Assists the Director of Nursing Services in managing and directing the Nursing Services Department.

• Confer with the Director of Nursing Services and/or other licensed nursing personnel regarding dermatologic disorders of residents in the facility.

• Consult with the Care Planning Team concerning assessment evaluations and assist in planning and developing the skin care treatment to be performed for the resident.

• Initiate requests for consultation or referral.

Respond to requests from the resident, physician, or nursing staff.

• Examine the resident and his/her records and charts, and discriminate between normal and abnormal findings, in order to recognize when to refer the resident to a physician for evaluation, supervision, or directions.

• Implement and maintain established policies and procedures relative to skin care treatments.

Interpret these to the physician, resident family members, and public as appropriate.

• Make written and oral reports/recommendations to the attending physician, Medical Director, or the DON concerning the status and care of the residents.

• Serve on the interdisciplinary Care Plan Team and work with the Interdisciplinary Care Plan Team in developing a comprehensive assessment and care plan for assigned residents.

• Identify, manage, and treat specific skin disorders and primary and secondary lesions, such as skin abrasions, foot problems such as corns and calluses, decubitus ulcers, bacterial, parasitic and viral skin infections, scaling popular diseases, and benign tumors.

• Provide assessment and diagnostic services to residents.

Perform an assessment evaluation using techniques including observation, inspection and palpation.

• Complete a quarterly physical dermatologic examination of the resident and record the results with the assessment.

• Provide therapeutic services.

Confer with the Care Planning Team in the development of the care plan.

• Provide, within established protocols and under the supervision of the physician, treatment for uncomplicated dermatologic disorders as directed ...