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Inova Health System Hiring for Registered Nurse (RN) Outpatient – Cardiac Surgery at Fairfax, VA Full Time
Job Description
We are currently seeking a dedicated and experienced Registered Nurse to join our outpatient team on a full-time basis. As a member of the Inova Cardiac Surgery Team, you will be an integral part of a care team that includes expert surgeons and nurse practitioners, all committed to providing a level of care equivalent to what we would wish for our own family members.
Schedule: Monday – Friday 8:00 am to 5:00 pm; no weekends or holidays.
Inova Cardiac Surgery Team is renowned for its board-certified and fellowship-trained surgeons who have performed thousands of procedures, pioneering new treatment and recovery approaches with results rarely matched nationwide. Operating out of Inova Schar Heart and Vascular, a high-volume cardiac center consistently receiving the highest ratings for quality and superior patient outcomes, we take pride in our commitment to delivering exceptional care.
As an Outpatient Registered Nurse, you will provide safe/therapeutic care in a holistic and systematic way in a physician practice or other outpatient setting. To help achieve our mission, you will incorporate differences into the provision of care while integrating knowledge, skills and experiences to meet the needs of patients and families to include patient and family education. Your ability to communicate effectively and work cooperatively with others while having respect for and an understanding of other clinical disciplines is essential. Using an integrated approach toward achieving desired patient outcomes while utilizing standards, guidelines and pathways for care delivery is of vital importance. Incorporating data and information to improve care and enhance outcomes while ensuring improvements in practice settings, by assuming responsibility for self-development in lifelong learning, is expected. Your ability to provide direction and guidance to others regarding practice while serving as a resource, preceptor and mentor is required.
Job Responsibilities
- Performs essential duties necessary to clinic or non-acute operations to include taking vitals, stocking exam rooms, giving vaccines, blood draws, etc.
- Formulates plans of care based on trends of similar patients including patient education and discharge planning. Collaborates with patients/families to identify realistic desired outcomes.
- Adapts standards and guidelines for individual patients.
- Tailors and prioritizes caring practice to individual needs including cultural, ethical and spiritual needs. Participates in the planning of routine transitional healthcare needs (i.e. treatment options, patient placement options, end of life options).
- Responds to changes in patients’ needs and provides holistic caring.
- Adapts planned educational programs and information to individual patients and families by modifying teaching strategies or content.
- Integrates education during the delivery of patient care.
- Ensures efficiency in the delivery of care. Determines immediate priorities and offers solutions for problems.
- Makes independent clinical decisions based on knowledge drawn from education and experience.
- Actively advocates for patients’ rights and identifies potential conflicts.
- Seeks counsel for resolution of conflict.
- Identifies variances from expected outcomes.
- Evaluates patient outcomes and makes revisions to plans of care.
- Documents all patient care activities as per documentation standards.
- Assists the healthcare team with the documentation process.
- Understands, explains, participates in and utilizes human caring initiatives.
- Demonstrates a willingness to give 100 percent and voluntarily assists others. Works with the team to achieve maximum productivity.
- Communicates and collaborates consistently with healthcare team members, patients and families to maximize patient outcomes.
- Keeps informed of initiatives and incorporates the outcomes of team or committee work into practice.
- Participates in work groups and/or committees.
- Acts as a clinical resource and serves as a mentor to healthcare team members while displaying leadership behaviors.
- Identifies own learning needs based on self-evaluation and the progress made from the previous years.
- Demonstrates evidence of a minimum of 20 hours of self-development activities with a minimum of six formal contact hours beyond orientation/fellowship program.
- Maintains own Team Member Continuing Education Record.
Requirements:
Experience: 0 years of experience. 1 year of experience as a Registered Nurse is preferred.
Education: BSN from an accredited school of nursing. If RN has an Associates Degree (ADN); must complete BSN within 24 months of start date.
Certifications: BLS for Healthcare Provider certification required (from the American Heart Association).
Licensure: RN licensed, or eligible to practice in the Commonwealth of Virginia as an RN.
Skills: Proficient in English. Strong verbal and written communication skills. Exceptional interpersonal skills and the ability to display a caring demeanor toward others.
Proficient computer skills required.
**For internal use only: LI-MA1 ; IND-1
As a recipient of federal financial assistance, Inova Health System (“Inova”) does not exclude, deny benefits to, or otherwise discriminate against any person on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, disability, or age in admission to, participation in, or receipt of the services or benefits under any of its programs or activities, whether carried out by Inova directly or through a contractor or any other entity with which Inova arranges to carry out its programs and activities.
This policy is in accordance with the provisions of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the Age Discrimination Act of 1975, Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act, and regulations of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services issued pursuant to these statutes at 45 C.F.R. Parts 80, 84, 91 and 92, respectively.
