RN Clinic Specialty

Overview

The Wound Healing Center is a specialized outpatient department where nurses play a vital role in delivering expert care to patients with acute and chronic wounds and ostomy needs. Our nursing team is at the center of patient healing—combining clinical expertise, compassionate care, and patient education to achieve optimal outcomes.

Our mission is to provide a comprehensive, cost-effective approach to wound healing through collaboration with a multi-disciplinary care team. Nurses in the Wound Healing Center are responsible for skilled wound assessments, implementing evidence-based treatment plans, assisting with advanced wound therapies, and supporting prevention of wound recurrence. Just as importantly, our nurses educate and empower patients and caregivers, helping them confidently manage care beyond the clinic.

This outpatient setting offers nurses the opportunity to care for complex conditions while building lasting patient relationships—without the demands of inpatient shift work. Team members work in a supportive, specialized environment focused on clinical excellence, collaboration, and continuous learning.

Responsibilities

• Assess patients and families, develop individualized care plans, and deliver high-quality specialty nursing care.
• Assist providers with examinations, procedures, treatments, and other clinical needs while applying sound clinical judgment.
• Triage patient concerns and clinical inquiries, coordinating appointments, referrals, and timely access to appropriate care.
• Review clinical information and diagnostic results, identify concerns, and escalate or advance care within scope.
• Educate patients and families using clear, culturally responsive approaches tailored to individual needs.
• Coordinate care across settings, including referrals, follow-up, transitions, pharmacies, and community resources.
• Delegate and guide team members while promoting accountability and collaborative care.
• Support prior authorizations, specialty scheduling, documentation, and efficient clinic workflows.
• Promote patient safety, evidence-based practice, quality improvement, privacy, and readiness of clinical areas and equipment.

Qualifications

Education: Graduate of an accredited school of nursing or IA Board of Nursing approved nursing program.

License(s)/Certification(s): Current licensure in good standing to practice as a Registered Nurse in Iowa.

Experience: One year of hospital clinical experience or demonstrated clinical efficiency preferred. Recent experience in care of hospitalized adults.

Other: Level 3 Medium Work: Exerting up to 50 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 20 pounds of force frequently, and/or up to 10 pounds of force constantly to move objects.