Registered Nurse (RN) Women's Surgical Specialty Unit
Inova Health System
- Location
- Fairfax, VA
- Job type
- Full time, Part time
- Posted
- Oct 2
- 18 days ago
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About the company
Inova Health System
Hospital & health care · 10,001+ employees
We are Inova, Northern Virginia’s leading nonprofit healthcare provider. Every day, our 25,000+ team members provide world-class healthcare to the communities we serve. Our people are the reason we're a national leader in healthcare safety, quality and patient experience. And from best-in-class facilities to professional development opportunities, we support them at every step. At Inova, we're constantly striving to be ever better — to shape a more compassionate future for healthcare.
What you'll do
- Committed to Team Member Health: offering medical, dental and vision coverage, and a robust team member wellness program.
- Retirement: Inova matches the first 5% of eligible contributions – starting on your first day.
- Tuition and Student Loan Assistance: offering up to $5,250 per year in education assistance and up to $10,000 for student loans.
- Mental Health Support: offering all Inova team members, their spouses/partners, and their children 25 mental health coaching or therapy sessions, per person, per year, at no cost.
- Work/Life Balance: offering paid time off, paid parental leave, and flexible work schedules.
- Performs comprehensive patient health assessments by interpreting multiple data sets and synthesizing their interrelationships
- Formulates individualized plans of care based on assessment findings and interpreting trends in patient populations to achieve best practice
- Conducts all patient care in a patient and family centered manner, integrating knowledge, skills and experiences to meet the needs of patients and families throughout the continuum of care
- Advocates for patients' rights from the patient and family perspective and provides counsel while acting as a resource to resolve issues
- Accesses resources from all disciplines to achieve desired patient outcomes and coordinates healthcare and alternate services for patient/family transition planning
- Documents all patient care activities, as per documentation standards, and assists healthcare team members with documentation
- Evaluates the process to achieve outcomes, anticipates patient variances and makes revisions to plans of care
- Makes clinical decisions based on experience, patient population data and intuition while promoting the development of clinical decision making of all team members
- Communicates effectively, works cooperatively with others, and has respect for and an understanding of other clinical disciplines
- Assists staff to assess patients' learning needs and outcomes measurement of patient education
- Provides direction and guidance to others regarding practice while serving as a clinical resource, preceptor, and mentor and delegates patient care activities and coordinates unit activities as needed
- Utilizes standards, guidelines and pathways for care delivery and ensures that the process for delivery of care is synthesized from direct patient/family communication, technology and other healthcare team member collaboration
- Demonstrates evidence of self-development by obtaining a minimum of six formal contact hours and maintains own Team Member Continuing Education Record
- Evaluates clinical and quality outcomes and contributes to performance improvement initiatives
- May perform additional duties as assigned
- Experience: Required 1 year of experience as a Registered Nurse, for Critical Care units, 1 year of experience as a Registered Nurse in a critical care setting or completion of a critical care fellowship.
- Education: BSN from an accredited school of nursing. If RN has an Associate’s Degree (ADN); must complete BSN within 5 years of start date.
- Certification: Basic Life Support (BLS) for Healthcare Provider certification from the American Heart Association required upon start | For Critical Care Units: Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support - Within 6 Months | For Pediatric Units: Pediatric Advanced Life Support- Within 6 Months | For Infusion Center Units: Obtain chemo card- within 3 months of hire
- Licensure: Licensed or eligible for licensure in the Commonwealth of Virginia as a Registered Nurse or an active multi-state Registered Nurse license
- Recent Registered Nurse (RN) experience on an inpatient med/surge unit for Registered Nurses.
- Recent experience on an acute inpatient unit for RN Fellow candidates.
- Bachelor of Science in Nursing
What you need
- Requires one year of Registered Nurse experience, a BSN (or an ADN with BSN completion within five years), BLS certification, and a Virginia RN license or active multistate RN license.
- Critical care units require critical care experience or completion of a critical care fellowship.
- Education: a bachelor's degree, an associate degree or a professional certificate
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Perks
- medical, dental and vision coverage
- team member wellness program
- Retirement
- Tuition and Student Loan Assistance
- Mental Health Support
- paid time off
- paid parental leave
- flexible work schedules
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