Job Description

When we say “our community,” we mean it.

UMMC Midtown Campus, one of the two campuses of the University of Maryland Medical Center, has a long-standing commitment to keeping our community healthy. Over the years, we have grown into a trusted teaching hospital, providing a wide range of medical, surgical, and behavioral health care services to Baltimore City and the surrounding region. At Midtown, you will experience a unique blend of the innovation and expertise characteristic of an academic medical center, combined with a passion for excellence in patient care.

Located in Baltimore’s cultural hub near the historic Mount Vernon neighborhood, UMMC Midtown Campus is a 144-bed teaching hospital. It is operationally integrated with UMMC’s downtown campus and offers extensive outpatient programs and services. Our mission is to partner with adults and children to help them achieve their best health, whether managing primary health care needs or conditions such as diabetes, hypertension, kidney failure, stroke, or addiction.

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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.

Compensation:

•Pay Range: $36.50-$49.39

•Other Compensation (if applicable): Shift Differental, $20,000 Sign-on Bonus

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