SouthEast Alaska Regional Health Consortium (SEARHC)
Wound Care And Ostomy Nurse Coordinator
SouthEast Alaska Regional Health Consortium (SEARHC), Sitka, Alaska, United States, 99835
Pay Range:
$38.93 - $54.76 SEARHC is a non‑profit health consortium serving residents of Southeast Alaska. We view employees as our strongest assets and prioritize their professional development. Benefits include retirement, paid time off, paid parental leave, health, dental, vision, life insurance, long‑ and short‑term disability, and more. Responsibilities
Maintain a structured and cohesive wound program across the consortium, providing direct and indirect patient care, consultation, education, and leadership throughout outpatient, inpatient, home health, and long‑term care environments. Consult and teach patients, caregivers, and staff on wound care, ostomy, and continence issues, including continence care. Provide in‑service training to staff, consultation, and support to medical providers for complex wound care and associated complications. Consistently deliver wound care and ostomy services for the health consortium, managing supplies, developing documentation templates, ensuring correct billing procedures, and conducting quality improvement activities. Manage, plan, and organize individual nursing care for identified patients, evaluate patient response to interventions, and elicit patient and family participation in care. Provide consultation for altered skin integrity (e.g., pressure ulcers, draining wounds, fistulae) to develop individualized plans of care and attain expected outcomes. Educate patients and family on protocols to identify, control, or eliminate etiologic factors for skin breakdown, including selection of appropriate support surfaces. Under physician’s order, provide appropriate debridement of devitalized tissue and validate pressure ulcer data collection for nursing quality indicators. Assists nursing and medical staff in maintaining current knowledge and competence in WOC care through various formats, e.g., formal or informal continuing education programs, rounds, lunch and learn sessions. Adapt focus of assessment and intervention techniques to accommodate special issues in remote healthcare and respond to changing patient care needs. Provide consultation and education to other WOC nurses throughout the consortium; contribute to selection of cost‑effective supplies and equipment related to WOC care. Travel approximately 5‑10 days per month to SEARHC communities for program development, consultation, patient care, and clinical staff support. Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree in Nursing – required. Active nursing license in Alaska or other U.S. state required; direct hire must have applied for an Alaska nursing license at time of hire. Current BLS Certification – required. Current Certification in Wound Care, Ostomy, and Continence – required. Clinical competency required within 3 months of hire and every three years. Minimum of two years relevant clinical experience with wounds and/or ostomies, including familiarity with NPWT dressing change procedure – required. Experience in wound and ostomy care procedures – required. Regular travel (approximately 5‑10 days per month) to Sitka and Wrangell, and other SEARHC communities, as needed, to support wound, ostomy, and continence care. Ability to fly small planes to remote communities as needed. Additional Required Certifications
Basic Life Support (BLS) – American Heart Association. Certified Wound, Ostomy, and Continence Nurse – Wound, Ostomy and Continence Nursing Certification Board. Clinical Competency Assessment – SEARHC. Registered Nurse License – State of Alaska – Alaska State Board of Nursing.
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$38.93 - $54.76 SEARHC is a non‑profit health consortium serving residents of Southeast Alaska. We view employees as our strongest assets and prioritize their professional development. Benefits include retirement, paid time off, paid parental leave, health, dental, vision, life insurance, long‑ and short‑term disability, and more. Responsibilities
Maintain a structured and cohesive wound program across the consortium, providing direct and indirect patient care, consultation, education, and leadership throughout outpatient, inpatient, home health, and long‑term care environments. Consult and teach patients, caregivers, and staff on wound care, ostomy, and continence issues, including continence care. Provide in‑service training to staff, consultation, and support to medical providers for complex wound care and associated complications. Consistently deliver wound care and ostomy services for the health consortium, managing supplies, developing documentation templates, ensuring correct billing procedures, and conducting quality improvement activities. Manage, plan, and organize individual nursing care for identified patients, evaluate patient response to interventions, and elicit patient and family participation in care. Provide consultation for altered skin integrity (e.g., pressure ulcers, draining wounds, fistulae) to develop individualized plans of care and attain expected outcomes. Educate patients and family on protocols to identify, control, or eliminate etiologic factors for skin breakdown, including selection of appropriate support surfaces. Under physician’s order, provide appropriate debridement of devitalized tissue and validate pressure ulcer data collection for nursing quality indicators. Assists nursing and medical staff in maintaining current knowledge and competence in WOC care through various formats, e.g., formal or informal continuing education programs, rounds, lunch and learn sessions. Adapt focus of assessment and intervention techniques to accommodate special issues in remote healthcare and respond to changing patient care needs. Provide consultation and education to other WOC nurses throughout the consortium; contribute to selection of cost‑effective supplies and equipment related to WOC care. Travel approximately 5‑10 days per month to SEARHC communities for program development, consultation, patient care, and clinical staff support. Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree in Nursing – required. Active nursing license in Alaska or other U.S. state required; direct hire must have applied for an Alaska nursing license at time of hire. Current BLS Certification – required. Current Certification in Wound Care, Ostomy, and Continence – required. Clinical competency required within 3 months of hire and every three years. Minimum of two years relevant clinical experience with wounds and/or ostomies, including familiarity with NPWT dressing change procedure – required. Experience in wound and ostomy care procedures – required. Regular travel (approximately 5‑10 days per month) to Sitka and Wrangell, and other SEARHC communities, as needed, to support wound, ostomy, and continence care. Ability to fly small planes to remote communities as needed. Additional Required Certifications
Basic Life Support (BLS) – American Heart Association. Certified Wound, Ostomy, and Continence Nurse – Wound, Ostomy and Continence Nursing Certification Board. Clinical Competency Assessment – SEARHC. Registered Nurse License – State of Alaska – Alaska State Board of Nursing.
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