Are you ready to become a wound care nurse? Find wound care nurse agency jobs in Northampton with Proximity Healthcare, United Kingdom nurses’ favourite healthcare employer and recruiter. We specialise in recruiting RNs and HCAs (healthcare assistants) all around the UK. Nurses trust us because we fight for their needs during the negotiation process on their behalf, for better salaries, benefits, flexible working hours, and more growth opportunities.
Why Wound Care Nurses?
Wound care nurses are the reasons patients survive after surgeries. Without wound care nurses, patients would die from infections like sepsis because of improper care. Let’s face it– some doctors are missing the clinical skills nurses are best at, like injections, wound cleaning, and IV placement.
This job is the perfect fit if you’re a fan of gore and gnarly wounds, especially post-surgical ones, like amputations, organ transplants, or C-sections.
To be a wound care nurse, you need patience, empathy, and superb communication skills. You should also be a fan of patient education, as a lot of your job will be explaining wound care procedures to patients. You might work in a hospital, wound care centre, or clinic.
Here’s what one nurse had to say: “I typically see 8-14 patients a day (sometimes more). I see the patient, assess the wound (photos and measurements of each wound), perform the wound/ostomy care, and recommend treatments. I document on all wounds the patient has in a flowsheet, as well as care plan, education, and notes.
In addition to that, there is a lot of patient and family/caregiver education, coordinating discharge, referrals to outpatient, staff education and inservices, audits, and quality improvement projects. It’s very busy work and can be challenging at times because not all wounds respond to treatments the same way. However, it really is such a great feeling to see the progress your patient has and what a difference it can make in their lives.”
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