RN - Wound Ostomy *Per Diem Day*
- Healthcare
- Full-time
- wound care nurse
- ostomy nurse
- registered nurse
The RN Wound Ostomy per diem position at Providence Portland Medical Center involves providing specialized wound, ostomy, and skin care to inpatients and outpatients. The role includes patient education, staff training, clinical consultation, and participation in multidisciplinary teams to manage complex wound and ostomy cases. This position requires nursing certification in wound and ostomy care and acute care experience to improve patient outcomes and support hospital-wide skin care initiatives.
Description
RN Wound Ostomy at Providence Portland Medical Center is a per diem part time position working during weekdays on a day shift.
Join Our Elite RN Wound Ostomy Team – Where Compassion Meets Clinical Excellence!
Are you a Registered Nurse with a passion for specialized care and a drive to make a real difference? Step into a dynamic role where your expertise transforms lives every single day!
As a Wound Ostomy Continence Nurse , you’ll be at the heart of a collaborative, multidisciplinary team—working alongside hospitalists, colorectal and general surgeons, vascular experts, podiatrists, and dedicated ancillary staff. Together, we deliver cutting-edge, compassionate care to patients with complex wound and ostomy needs.
What You’ll Do:
- Craft personalized wound, ostomy, and skin care plans that guide patients from hospital to home.
- Educate patients and empower them to manage their care with confidence.
- Train and support nursing staff across the hospital in best practices for wound, ostomy, and incontinence skin care.
- Lead quarterly Skin Prevalence studies and champion our Skin Care Resource Nurse team.
- Provide ongoing support through our outpatient ostomy clinic, including expert stoma site markings and follow-up care.
This is an inpatient nursing role where your clinical skills, leadership, and compassion will shine. If you're ready to elevate your career and be part of a team that’s redefining excellence in wound and ostomy care—Apply today!
The hospital-based Wound Ostomy Nurse serves as a clinical resource and consultant for the acute and rehabilitative care of patients with selected disorders of the gastrointestinal, genitourinary, and integumentary systems such as acute and chronic wounds (e.g., complex draining wounds, fistulae, pressure ulcers, vascular ulcers) ostomies, percutaneous tubes, and moisture related skin injuries. Professional responsibilities are carried out through direct patient care, clinical consultation, education, research, and administration. The Wound Ostomy Nurse provides inpatient and outpatient clinical services throughout the hospital, including the Emergency Department and Wound/Ostomy Care Clinic. The Wound Ostomy Nurse also serves on several regional patient care committees.
Providence caregivers are not simply valued – they’re invaluable. Join our team at Providence Portland Medical Center and thrive in our culture of patient-focused, whole-person care built on understanding, commitment, and mutual respect. Your voice matters here, because we know that to inspire and retain the best people, we must empower them.
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing
- Upon hire: Oregon Registered Nurse License
- Upon hire: National Provider BLS - American Heart Association
- Upon hire: Current certification in wound ostomy nursing, dual specialty (CWON) by the Wound, Ostomy and Continence Nursing Certification Board; or obtain CWON certification within 12 months of hire
- 2 years recent acute care nursing experience, preferably including wound and ostomy care.
Why Join Providence?
Our best-in-class benefits are uniquely designed to support you and your family in staying well, growing professionally, and achieving financial security. We take care of you, so you can focus on delivering our Mission of caring for everyone, especially the most vulnerable in our communities.
About Providence
At Providence, our strength lies in Our Promise of “Know me, care for me, ease my way.” Working at our family of organizations means that regardless of your role, we’ll walk alongside you in your career, supporting you so you can support others. We provide best-in-class benefits and we foster an inclusive workplace where diversity is valued, and everyone is essential, heard and respected. Together, our 120,000 caregivers (all employees) serve in over 50 hospitals, over 1,000 clinics and a full range of health and social services across Alaska, California, Montana, New Mexico, Oregon, Texas and Washington. As a comprehensive health care organization, we are serving more people, advancing best practices and continuing our more than 100-year tradition of serving the poor and vulnerable.
The amounts listed are the base pay range; additional compensation may be available for this role, such as shift differentials, standby/on-call, overtime, premiums, extra shift incentives, or bonus opportunities.
Providence offers a comprehensive benefits package including a retirement 401(k) Savings Plan with employer matching, health care benefits (medical, dental, vision), life insurance, disability insurance, time off benefits (paid parental leave, vacations, holidays, health issues), voluntary benefits, well-being resources and much more. Learn more at providence.jobs/benefits.
Applicants in the Unincorporated County of Los Angeles: Qualified applications with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the Unincorporated Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act."
About the Team
Providence has been serving the Pacific Northwest since 1856 when Mother Joseph of the Sacred Heart and four other Sisters of Providence arrived in Vancouver, Washington Territory. As the largest healthcare system and largest private employer in Oregon, Providence is located in areas ranging from the Columbia Gorge to the wine country to sunny southern Oregon to charming coastal communities to the urban setting of Portland.
Our award-winning and comprehensive medical centers are known for outstanding programs in cancer, cardiology, neurosciences, orthopedics, women's services, emergency and trauma care, pediatrics and neonatal intensive care. Our not-for-profit network also provides a full spectrum of care with leading-edge diagnostics and treatment, outpatient health centers, physician groups and clinics, numerous outreach programs, and hospice and home care.
Providence is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to the principle that every workforce member has the right to work in surroundings that are free from all forms of unlawful discrimination and harassment on the basis of race, color, gender, disability, veteran, military status, religion, age, creed, national origin, sexual identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital status, genetic information, or any other basis prohibited by local, state, or federal law. We believe diversity makes us stronger, so we are dedicated to shaping an inclusive workforce, learning from each other, and creating equal opportunities for advancement.
Requsition ID: 396089
Company: Providence Jobs
Job Category: Nursing-Patient Facing
Job Function: Nursing
Job Schedule: Per-Diem
Job Shift: Day
Career Track: Nursing
Department: 5001 PPMC WOUND CARE IP
Address: OR Portland 4805 NE Glisan St
Work Location: Providence Portland Medical Ctr-Portland
Workplace Type: On-site
Pay Range: $46.54 - $72.26
The amounts listed are the base pay range; additional compensation may be available for this role, such as shift differentials, standby/on-call, overtime, premiums, extra shift incentives, or bonus opportunities.
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