Medical Care

Objective

To illuminate the concept of “evidence-based” wound care for clinical staff, providers, patients and family members and community partners in order to give all patients the best possible outcome.

Skills

• Wound, ostomy and continence care certified • Evidence-based practice wound treatment

• Patient/family/clinician education • Hyperbaric Oxygen referral indication

• Vascular assessment/ABIs • Compression wraps • Negative pressure wound therapy

• Off-loading pressure ulcers • Conservative Sharp Wound Debridement

• Policy and Procedure development • Effective collaboration with healthcare team members

• Assisting physicians with debridement and skin substitute placement

• Decisive judgment/ability to work with minimal supervision

• Excel, Power Point, Microsoft Word, Wound Watch, McKesson, E-Clinical Works, Harmoni MD

Experience

Clinic/Acute Care CWOCN Sonoma West Medical & Surgical Institutes (SMWMSI) / SWMC,

Sebastopol, Ca Dec 2015-Present

Manage outcomes for Wound, Ostomy and Continence (WOC) patients by providing direct patient assessment and wound treatment for clinic and specialty wound study patients and act as a specialty consultant to multidisciplinary clinicians for hospitalized patients.

Clinic Setting:

Advise on wound clinic design and development of operational model.

Maintain wound care supply inventory and efficient use of resources.

Under supervising physician, provide direct patient wound treatments per WOCN “evidence–based practice”.

Apply comprehensive knowledge of wound treatment billing practices to optimize payer reimbursement.

Collaborate with surgical office to perform all assigned duties per current wound trial protocol.

Hospital Setting:

Provide assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation of (WOC) care throughout the institution.

Function primarily as a consultant; providing direct patient care and education to complex patients.

Identify educational goals for staff development in area of expertise.

Create new policy and procedures for the prevention of skin integrity compromise.

Communicate with electronic medical record technicians to development intuitive wound documentation tools.

Med/Surg RN Sonoma West Medical Center (SWMC), Sebastopol, Ca. May 2015-Dec 2015

Collaborated with interdisciplinary team members in the development of functional Med/Surg unit.

Compiled and revised policy and procedures to meet the standards of DNV, CMS and Pharmacy Inspection for licensure.

Functioned as clinical liaison to electronic medical record technicians for the development of intuitive documentation tools.

Established and managed wound care supply inventory.

Provided care for team of up to 5 med/surg patients per hospital protocol.

Clinical RN and Wound care SRCHCs-Vista Clinic, Santa Rosa, Ca. June 2014-May 2015

Served as Wound and Ostomy care resource to nursing staff and providers.

Phone triage and patient case management.

Prevented infection and achieved wound healing through the application of “evidence-based practice”.

Enhanced nursing staff and provider wound treatment knowledge through development of a wound care program.

Created and presented PowerPoint slides, multiple reference tools, in-services and competency exams.

CWOCN (travel assignment) Rideout Health, Marysville, Ca. Feb-March, 2014

Wound, ostomy and continence Consultant to physicians and nursing staff at Rideout Memorial Hospital.

Recommended topical treatment and plan of care for patients with chronic wounds in 250 bed hospital.

Educated RN staff in wound care techniques and the ability to recognize important wound characteristic changes.

Applied negative pressure wound therapy to large, refractory wounds with copious drainage.

RN, CWOCN Nurse Consultant ConvaTec 2013 - 2014

Independent contractor performing in-service presentations of a Fecal Management System to nursing staff.

Coordinated with product reps and nursing educators to develop in-service schedules.

Overnight travel assignments to cover all shifts having in-serviced 4000 nurses to date.

Mastered the product’s purpose, features, and application to design succinct teaching material to optimize it’s function.

RN, CWOCN Sutter Care at Home, Santa Rosa, Ca. Jan-Dec, 2012

Case management of home health patients with emphasis on wound and ostomy care utilizing WOCN training.

Heald lower extremity and abdominal wounds using “evidenced-based practices”.

Prevented spread of infection by culturing suspicious wounds to have MD initiate antibiotic therapy.

Reduced lower extremity swelling by monitoring leg circumference and delivering effective life-style-change education.

Returned new ostomy patients to a functional life via emotional support and goal-oriented return-demonstration.

CWOCN CHOMP(Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula), Monterey, Ca. 2010 - 2011

Wound clinic assessment/treatment of chronic wounds primarily due to venous/arterial insufficiency and diabetes.

Accelerated wound healing by selecting appropriate topical treatment products and effective patient education.

Assisted physicians with wound debridement and skin-substitute replacement.

Supported patients through hyperbaric oxygen chamber dives.

Enhanced knowledge of successful wound healing techniques via Wound-Watch.

Education

Emory University, Atlanta, Ga.: CWOCN (Certified Wound, Ostomy, Continence Nurse), License #200-***-****

Maurine Church Coburn School of Nursing, Monterey, Ca.: ADN, Registered Nurse, License #621952

U.C. Irvine, Irvine, Ca.: BFA, Dance Instruction

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