Responsibilities

• Assists in patient preparation for treatment.
• Reinforces education as it relates to hyperbaric therapy.
• Keeps complete and accurate patient records as they pertain to treatment documentation.
• Performs hyperbaric chamber operations and system maintenance as required.
• Supports clinical hyperbaric facility accreditation.
• Maintains competencies, continuing education and certifications as appropriate.
• Utilizes data software for wound management to make appropriate entries for daily hyperbaric treatments and wound care clinic visits, including photo uploading.
• Assumes responsibility for the safe and effective operation and maintenance of the hyperbaric chamber(s) and related systems and ancillary components.
• Provides leadership and safety training to other hyperbaric facility personnel.
• Ensures department compliance with NFPA 99 – Hyperbaric Chapter, current edition, and with unit safety policies and procedures.
• Reviews all department safety incidents, collects information regarding equipment/patient safety, reports relevant incidents to the staff, and periodically provides in-service training related to hyperbarics.
• Evaluates hyperbaric chamber equipment/supplies used in the chamber and ensures that they meet all safety requirements before they are permitted inside the chamber.
• Conducts quarterly hyperbaric chamber fire safety drills that are tailored to improve staff response to emergencies.
• May function as a Documentation Assistant (scribe) in accordance with policy.
• Provides hands-on nursing care adhering to policies and procedures; maintains clinical competence in procedural skills, treatments and patient/caregiver education related to wound care management; and acts as a patient advocate in delivery and coordination of patient care.
• Collaborates with other healthcare providers, wound care center Physicians, Program Director and Medical Director regarding clinic and patient needs.
• Obtains benefits and eligibility and/or prior authorization, if required, through patients' insurance for hyperbaric treatment for the facility and ordering/supervising provider.