Staff Nurse Burn Unit

• Job Summary
  • • The Staff Nurse is a professional nurse who, with minimal supervision, assesses, plans, implements, and evaluates nursing care for patients/families on assigned units.
• Education
  • • Graduate of an accredited school of nursing. 
• Experience
• Licensures, Certifications, and/or Registries
  • • Current RN license in the State of Alabama.

    • Current BLS certification.

Additional Information

The Burn Center is a six-bed unit that provides acute, critical, ambulatory and rehabilitative care for pediatric burn patients.  Trauma and surgery patients that do not present with an infection are also accepted. This unit uses an interdisciplinary team approach to provide comprehensive care to burned and injured children ages birth to young adults.  
The Burn Center is supported by a multidisciplinary team that consists of physicians, nurses, occupational and physical therapists, child life therapists, social workers, chaplains, nutritionists, and certified teacher. The team works together closely, to not only meet physical needs but the emotional and social needs of the patient and their families.  Burns can cause severe scarring which can alter the child’s appearance and ability to move.  The team provides extensive teaching with patients and parents concerning scar management, mobility and coping strategies.  The Burn Team not only follows burn patients while hospitalized but also as outpatients in the burn clinic.