Company Description
When we say “our community” we mean it.
UMMC Midtown Campus, one of two campuses of the University of Maryland Medical Center, has had a long history of working to keep our community healthy and has grown to become a trusted teaching hospital for medical and surgical care in Baltimore City.
Located in Baltimore’s cultural center near the historic Mount Vernon neighborhood, UMMC Midtown Campus is a 180-bed, community teaching hospital with a focus on helping people manage chronic diseases, including diabetes, hypertension, pulmonary conditions, and infectious diseases.
Job Description
- Wound, Ostomy, and Continence Nurses Society (WOCN) preferred*
Full-time, Days, $20,000 Sign-on Bonus
As an
Experienced Certified Wound Care Nurse, you will be required to consistently demonstrate effective leadership behaviors, advance evidence-based practices, lead unit governance initiatives, and coach others to excel and grow in their professional nursing roles. To include:
Clinical Practice
- Provides independent care for the unit-specific patient population; serves as a clinical resource, integrates evidence into practice, and functions effectively in unit-specific roles (e.g., arrest team for ICU, triage for ED).
- Accountable to patients and families for care processes and outcomes during an episode of care.
- Accountable to peers for advancing group practice on the unit and to the nurse manager for overall work performance.
- Serves as a clinical expert and professional resource for unit nurses, utilizing clinical expertise to teach informally on the unit or through formal classes.
- Advances clinical practice on the unit by consistently integrating evidence into practice, forming a solid foundation for unit practice.
- Service/Quality
- Leads efforts to address Nursing Sensitive Quality Indicators (NSQI) improvement opportunities; develops, implements, and evaluates action plans.
- Leads performance improvement initiatives by designing, implementing, evaluating, and disseminating results.
- Monitors patient and unit safety standards and actively contributes to the development and implementation of improvement plans.
- Coaches CNI and CNIIs on performance improvement (PI) and/or evidence-based practice (EBP).
- Complies with, participates in, and leads regulatory activities within the unit/division or organization.
- Leads the development of Performance Improvement, Evidence-Based Practice, or research at the unit level, meeting at least one form of advancing practice in the continuum of research. Leads at least one primary project using a model as the project’s framework, identified within the portfolio.
- Unit Operations
- Performs charge role as scheduled and coaches new charge nurses.
- Oversees unit orientation program and plans clinical experiences for orientation.
- Serves as a unit steward (e.g., liaison for lab, nutrition, pharmacy).
- Mentors and coaches other nurses to advance their development and maintain competencies required for the patient population served.
- Role models and holds peers accountable for Healthy Work Environment guidelines (communication, collaboration, effective decision-making, recognition, leadership, staffing).
- Orients nurses to unit-level governance structure and councils.
- Professional Development
- Serves as an expert preceptor, coach, and mentor to new nurses, students, and preceptors.
- Mentors and coaches unit leaders or those assuming leadership roles on councils or major governance initiatives.
- Leads unit processes for the development of ancillary personnel’s skills and development; leads unit-based peer review processes.
- Actively engages in advancing own practice and serves as a role model for others.
Qualifications
Education & Experience
- Licensure as a Registered Nurse (RN) in Maryland, or eligibility to practice due to Compact state agreements as outlined by the MD Board of Nursing.
- BSN or Conferred BSN degree required as of July 1, 2013.
- Wound, Ostomy, and Continence Nurses Society (WOCN) certification.
- Current CPR certification required.
- Relevant clinical work experience related to unit practice.
- Maintenance of 20 contact hours of education every two years.
- Membership in a professional organization.
- Minimum 0.50 FTE status.
Additional Information
- Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
- Current and active specialty certification, OR
- Current matriculation or completion of a degree or certificate program (Post-Baccalaureate or higher, 12 credits or greater) within the past 24 months, OR
- Formal teaching (submit signed “Approval for Formal Teaching”) within the past 24 months, OR
- Membership in a professional association board or committee within the past 24 months (not a hospital committee), OR
- Active participation as a peer reviewer for a professional journal (minimum of 2/year, submit signed “Peer Reviewer Validation Form”).
- Demonstrated ability to assume a clinical leadership role and effectiveness as a multidisciplinary team member.
- Proficiency in computer systems for managing patient information.
- Knowledge and skills necessary to provide care appropriate to the patient population(s) served.
- Understanding of growth and development principles over the lifespan and ability to assess data reflective of patient-specific needs.
- Highly effective interpersonal and communication skills, both written and verbal.
Patient Safety
- Ensures patient safety in job functions and through participation in hospital, department, or unit patient safety initiatives.
- Takes action to correct observed risks to patient safety.
- Reports adverse events and near misses to appropriate management.
- Identifies possible risks in processes, procedures, and devices, and communicates them to those in charge.
- All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
Additional Information
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
Compensation
- Pay Range: $40.01-$51.89
- Other Compensation (if applicable): Shift Differential, $20,000 Sign-on Bonus
- Review the 2024-2025 UMMS Benefits Guide
