In collaboration with the attending physician, provides day to day organizational and clinical direction and leadership of the healthcare provider team.
1. Performs comprehensive history and physical assessment for patients admitted/scheduled to service/practice setting. .
2. Orders obtains, and interprets appropriate diagnostic tests.
3. Establishes medical diagnosis based on history, assessment, and diagnostic findings.
4. 2+ years of experience in wound care
5. Wound care training certificate and ability to become certified within 6 months of employment.
6. Develop and manage an individualized wound care treatment plan for optimal healing outcomes or chronic maintenance.
7. Collaborates closely with facility wound nurse and nursing staff on wound management practices
8. Knowledge of up-to-date topical wound care products and therapies, including ordering, application, and management of the products on wounds and ostomies, also including negative pressure wound therapy
9. Provides hands-on wound care to patients, including debridement of wounds by enzymatic, sharp, or autolytic methods when appropriate
10. Orders, reviews, interprets, and integrates diagnostic studies and laboratory findings to initiate or modify the treatment plan.
11. Collaborates with the patient’s primary care provider when comorbidities are contributing to or affecting the healing of a wound to determine a comprehensive plan
12. Prescribes medications and/or durable medical equipment to assist in the healing of wounds
The University of Maryland Medical System (UMMS) is an academic private health system, focused on delivering compassionate, high quality care and putting discovery and innovation into practice at the bedside. Partnering with the University of Maryland School of Medicine, University of Maryland School of Nursing and University of Maryland, Baltimore who educate the state’s future health care professionals, UMMS is an integrated network of care, delivering 25 percent of all hospital care in urban, suburban and rural communities across the state of Maryland. UMMS puts academic medicine within reach through primary and specialty care delivered at 11 hospitals, including the flagship University of Maryland Medical Center, the System’s anchor institution in downtown Baltimore, as well as through a network of University of Maryland Urgent Care centers and more than 150 other locations in 13 counties. For more information, visit www.umms.org.
QualificationsMaster of Science Degree with completion of an appropriate primary or acute care care Nurse Practitioner program. Registered and currently recorded with the Maryland Board of Examiners of Nurses and Certified as a Nurse Practitioner in the State of Maryland. Certified in area of specialty. DEA and CDS eligibleBCLS as requiredMust have wound care training certificates or wound care certification ( The American Board of Wound Management (ABWM) • National Alliance of Wound Care and Ostomy (NAWCO) • The Wound Ostomy Continence Nursing Certification Board (WOCNCB).Must complete a 40-hour UMMS-approved hyperbaric medicine introductory course within 3 months of hireAdditional Information
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