Student Veterans of America Jobs

Welcome to SVA’s jobs portal, your one-stop shop for finding the most up to date source of employment opportunities. We have partnered with the National Labor Exchange to provide you this information. You may be looking for part-time employment to supplement your income while you are in school. You might be looking for an internship to add experience to your resume. And you may be completing your training ready to start a new career. This site has all of those types of jobs.

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  • Jobs on this site are original and unduplicated and come from three sources: the Federal government, state workforce agency job banks, and corporate career websites. All jobs are vetted to ensure there are no scams, training schemes, or phishing.
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  • The newest jobs are listed first, so use the search features to match your interests. You can look for jobs in a specific geographical location, by title or keyword, or you can use the military crosswalk. You may want to do something different from your military career, but you undoubtedly have skills from that occupation that match to a civilian job.

Job Information

The PARC Joliet Nursing Treatment Nurse in Joliet, Illinois

  • Treating skin reactions

  • Preventing skin breakdown

  • Treating and managing vascular ulcers, pressure ulcers and diabetic ulcers

  • Initiating preventative measures

  • Providing comprehensive wound management, including reducing causative factors, controlling odor, assessing nutritional needs, and providing and applying topical therapies

  • Educating the patient, the patient’s family, and any other support persons on care techniques

  • Assessing and treating draining wounds and fistulae

  • Designing pouch systems for draining wounds and fistulae

  • Implementing preventative actions to reduce the incidences of pressure ulcers and vascular ulcers

  • Providing instruction on proper wound dressing

  • Educating the patient, the patient’s family, and other support persons on ulcer prevention and treatmentWOCs nurses specializes in ostomy care are skilled to provide inpatient and outpatient care, as well as pre- and post-operative education, support and counseling for individuals who undergo surgery for colostomies, ileostomies, or urostomies. Their scope of practice often includes:

Ostomy Care

  • Providing self-care, diet, and lifestyle education and support

  • Preventing peristomal/stomal complications

  • Providing rehabilitative care

  • Assessing stoma site marking so as to decrease long-term complications and encourage pouching system adherence

  • Reviewing and modifying pouch system problems

  • Addressing and preventing peristomal skin complicationsWOC nurses specializes in urinary and fecal incontinence often work in an inpatient acute setting. The WOCN will provide a wide range of services that address causative factors, restorative strategies, and lifestyle/quality of life issues. Their scope of practice often includes:

Incontinence Care

  • Selecting and recommending collection devices or undergarments

  • Providing instruction on pelvic muscles exercises

  • Counseling the patient, the patient’s family, and other support persons on hygiene and skin care

  • Providing instruction on self-catheterization

  • Identifying contributing factors and suggesting dietary and environmental modificationsWOC nurses will have advanced training in nursing, along with post-graduate or post-baccalaureate certificates in wound, ostomy, and continence care through educational programs that can be completed through a combination of home study and on-site experience.

Job Type: Full-time

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