Job Description

Description

Introduction

Do you have the career opportunities as a Hyperbaric Nurse you want in your current role? We invest in what matters most to nurses like you \xe2\x80\x93 at home, at work, and at every stage in your career. We have an exciting opportunity for you to join Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center which is a part of the nation\xe2\x80\x99s leading provider of healthcare services, HCA Healthcare.

Benefits

Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center, offers a total rewards package that supports the health, life, career and retirement of our colleagues. The available plans and programs include:

• Comprehensive medical coverage that covers many common services at no cost or for a low copay. Plans include prescription drug and behavioral health coverage as well as telemedicine services and free AirMed medical transportation.
• Additional options for dental and vision benefits, life and disability coverage, flexible spending accounts, supplemental health protection plans (accident, critical illness, hospital indemnity), auto and home insurance, identity theft protection, legal counseling, long-term care coverage, moving assistance, pet insurance and more.

• Fertility and family building benefits through Progyny

• Free counseling services and resources for emotional, physical and financial wellbeing

• Family support, including adoption assistance, child and elder care resources and consumer discounts

• 401(k) Plan with a 100% match on 3% to 9% of pay (based on years of service)

• Employee Stock Purchase Plan

• Retirement readiness and rollover services and preferred banking partnerships

• Education assistance (tuition, student loan, certification support, dependent scholarships)

• Colleague recognition program

• Time Away From Work Program (paid time off, paid family leave, long- and short-term disability coverage and leaves of absence)

Note: Eligibility for benefits may vary by location.

Do you want to work where you have a voice? Nurses are at the forefront of our commitment to the care and improvement of human life. At HCA Healthcare, there are many ways for nurses to have a voice through professional practice councils, advisory councils, vital voices surveys, and units of distinction. We learn from our multi-generational nursing family. We partner with our Nurses at Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center!

Job Summary and Qualifications

Responsibilities include direct nursing intervention provided to a variety of age populations and diagnostic categories, based on the physician developed treatment plan and established priorities, for wound care issues including, but not limited to:

• Identifying potential cause(s) of delayed wound healing; such as vascular disease, infection,
• diabetes, other metabolic disorders, immunosuppression, unrelieved pressure, radiation
• injury, tobacco use, patient non-compliance and malnutrition.
• Modifying treatment as directed by the physician as the wound progresses through the stages of healing; and provision of specialized wound care - debridement (sharp, autolytic,
• enzymatic and mechanical: pulsed lavage, whirlpool, wet to dry dressings, ultrasonic).
• Edema management, application of antimicrobial agents, application and management of
• negative pressure therapy, application and removal of dressings of all kinds, advanced
• technology of all kinds including but not limited to bioengineered tissues, platelet gel, etc.
• A working understanding of wound care terminology.
• Fitting and measuring for pre-made compression stockings/garments.
• Practical understanding and adherence to universal precautions/infection control.
• Ability to order needed supplies to carry out patient care (mail order dressing supplies,
• negative pressure therapy supplies, etc).
• Provide burn care to patients from infancy to geriatrics with age appropriate considerations.
• Ability to input orders for tests of all kinds including but not limited to processing of a wound culture, wound biopsy, etc.
• Ability to properly obtain correct pharmaceutical agents/solutions per physician order as well as their correct application and storage needs in compliance with hospital rules.
• Ability to completely and accurately fill out wound care documentation forms within department Wound Expert documentation system and on hospital Meditech documentation system.
• Proper handling, processing and management of instruments including tweezers, scissors, scalpels, and other instruments as patient care requires.
• Work in an interdisciplinary team. Recognize patients appropriate for referrals to available services; for example PT, OT

What qualifications you will need:

• Basic Cardiac Life Support must be obtained within 30 days of employment start date
• Registered Nurse
• Associate Degree

Recruiter: Questions feel free to reach out to Tanya Covert, Recruiter or via text/telephone 208.709.2261 (mobile)

This role requires you to be fully vaccinated for COVID-19 based on local, state and /or federal law or regulations (unless a medical or religious exemption is approved).

The largest medical facility in the region, (EIRMC) is a full-service hospital with 318 plus patient beds. We serve as the region\xe2\x80\x99s healthcare provider and serve southeast Idaho, western Wyoming, Yellowstone National Park and parts of Montana. EIRMC is home to a Level II Trauma Center, a Level 1 ICU (one of two in Idaho), and the only emergency room in Idaho Falls. We have the region\xe2\x80\x99s only Pediatric Intensive Care Unit for critically ill children. We offer inpatient and outpatient mental health care for adolescents and adults at its 74-bed Behavioral Health Center.

We are part of the HCA Healthcare network - which includes more than 300 affiliate facilities across the country \xe2\x80\x93 offering our colleagues the opportunity for travel and relocation. HCA and EIRMC are all about caring for people, and that care extends to patients, families and our colleagues.

HCA Healthcare has been recognized as one of the World\xe2\x80\x99s Most Ethical Companies\xc2\xae by the Ethisphere Institute more than ten times. In recent years, HCA Healthcare spent an estimated $3.7 billion in cost for the delivery of charitable care, uninsured discounts, and other uncompensated expenses.

"Bricks and mortar do not make a hospital. People do."- Dr. Thomas Frist, Sr.
HCA Healthcare Co-Founder

If this opportunity is your next step in your career path, we encourage you to apply for our Hyperbaric Nurse or Technician opening. We review all applications. Qualified candidates will be contacted by a member of our team. We are interviewing apply today!

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center