University of Virginia Hiring for Registered Nurse (RN) – Inpatient – Children’s and Woman’s Units at Charlottesville, VA Full Time

Are you interested in being a part of the #1 Children’s Hospital in Virginia? U.S. News & World Report has again ranked UVA Health/Children’s the best children’s hospital in Virginia, with 9 of our pediatric specialties in the top 50 in the nation. Find your calling and grow your career with us. Join a nationally recognized pediatric academic center with a dedicated team passionate about caring for children and families.

UVA Health/Children’s:
•is an academic focused, children’s hospital located within UVA Medical
Center that features advanced specialty and surgical care services that
support over twenty-seven services including Pediatric Cardiology,
Hematology/Oncology, Gastroenterology, Endocrinology, Orthopedics and
Neurology.
•we are a level 1 trauma center
•56 bed neonatal intensive care unit (NICU)
•20 bed pediatric intensive care unit (PICU)
•38 bed acute/intermediate care pediatric unit

UVA Health Women’s Services:
•Leads the Commonwealth of Virginia in the provision of world-class
obstetric care and remains on Newsweek’s Best Maternity Hospital 2023
list with the highest rating of five ribbons.
•Offers primary and subspecialty care
•Providing care from Midwifery to Maternal Fetal Medicine
•With 8 labor rooms, 4 private triage beds and 2 operating rooms
•23 private postpartum rooms with rooming in for newborn care

Wherever you choose to work within UVA Children’s, you will be part of a team that is restoring hope, healing young lives, and making dreams come true for our young patients and their families. Here, you will be part of a community of medical practitioners, faculty, students, and other team members that exercise ingenuity, develop self-governance tools, and push the boundaries of knowledge in service to the common good.

UVA Health offers a comprehensive benefits package including Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance, Paid Time Off, Long-term and Short-term Disability, Retirement Savings Plans, and Flexible Spending Accounts.

Additional benefits:
• Sign-on bonus’s available for eligible candidates
• Certification and Education support after 6 months employment
• Generous Paid Time Off
• Clinical Career Ladder for Professional Growth and promotion
• Charge RN roles for Leadership Development
• Professional Nursing Governance Organization supports Shared Governance

This job description integrates the ANA 2015 Nursing: Scope and Standards of Practice, Third Edition and the ANA Code of Ethics for Nurses with Interpretive Statements (ANA, 2015), and the UVA Nursing Professional Practice Model.

• Relationship Based Care – Self and Colleagues: reflects the influence of the nurse’s relationship with self, colleagues and patient/family on the patient experience.
• Relationship Based Care – Patients and Families: reflects the influence of the nurse’s relationship with self, colleagues and patient/family on the patient experience.
• Expert Caring: encompasses clinical assessment, planning, prioritizing, coordinating and implementation of care.
• Empowered Leaders: demonstrate knowledge of and actively participate in shared governance.
• Lifelong Learners: encompasses professional development through formal education, professional certification, internal and external learning opportunities and recognizes the value of external professional organizations. Supports onboarding of new team members and precepts as applicable.
• Quality Achievement: includes adherence to clinical documentation guidelines, comprehension of outcomes data, engagement in performance improvement activities and commitment to standard work.
• Innovation: is demonstrated by application of technologies that support patient care, actively seeking to implement evidence based practice and new knowledge generated by nursing research.
• In addition to the above job responsibilities, other duties may be assigned.

Position Compensation Range: $32.55 – $53.71 Hourly

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS

Education: Graduate of an accredited nursing program required. Bachelor of Science in Nursing required within 5 years of hire.
Experience: 1 year of relevant experience.
Licensure: Licensed to Practice as a Registered Nurse in the Commonwealth of Virginia. American Heart Association (AHA) Health Care Provider BLS certification required.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

Job requires standing for prolonged periods, frequently traveling, bending/stooping. Proficient communicative, auditory and visual skills; Attention to detail and ability to write legibly; Ability to lift/push/pull 20 – 50lbs. May be exposed to chemicals, blood/body fluids and infectious disease.

The University of Virginia, including the UVA Health System which represents the UVA Medical Center, Schools of Medicine and Nursing, UVA Physician’s Group and the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library, are fundamentally committed to the diversity of our faculty and staff. We believe diversity is excellence expressing itself through every person’s perspectives and lived experiences. We are equal opportunity and affirmative action employers. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, color, disability, gender identity or expression, marital status, national or ethnic origin, political affiliation, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, veteran status, and family medical or genetic information.