Eight years med-surg. Our wound care nurse is retiring and my manager pulled me aside and said they'd pay for the whole WOC program if I commit to two years in the role after. Pay bump is about $3 an hour. Monday through Friday, no nights, no weekends.
Part of me is screaming take it. The other part is scared I'll be bored out of my mind looking at sacral wounds all day and miss actually having patients. Also two years feels like forever if I hate it.
Anyone here do wound care full time? Is it as chill as everyone says or is it secretly a nightmare of consults nobody actually follows through on?
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Post replyMeanwhile our hospital eliminated the wound nurse position entirely and now we're supposed to stage everything ourselves with a laminated chart from 2014. Take the job so at least one hospital has someone who knows what they're looking at.
Honestly, $3 an hour for a specialty cert is kind of insulting. You're taking on a whole program and they get a certified nurse locked in for two years at a discount. Ask for more before you say yes.
Is it just wound or full WOC with ostomy and continence too? Ostomy teaching gets you a lot of real patient time. Some of my favorite conversations ever were with brand new ostomy patients.
Read the repayment clause before you sign anything. Some contracts are prorated if you leave early, and some make you pay back the whole thing even at 23 months. That changes how scary the two years really is.
Did wound/ostomy for four years. The consults themselves are fine. What wears you down is writing a perfect plan and coming back three days later to find nobody touched it because the floor was short. You become the turning-schedule police and people start avoiding eye contact when you walk on the unit. Still wouldn't go back to 12s though.
M-F, no nights, no weekends, and they pay for the cert? I would have signed before she finished the sentence.