Night Shift Registered Nurse (RN) - Orthopedic Surgical Unit
About The Position
The Inova Alexandria Hospital Ortho Surgery Unit is seeking a Registered Nurse (RN) for a full-time, night shift position. This role involves providing knowledgeable and caring clinical practice and care coordination, ensuring safe and therapeutic care in a patient/family-centered manner. The RN will integrate knowledge, skills, and experiences to meet patient and family needs across the continuum of care, including patient and family education. Effective communication and collaboration with other healthcare disciplines are essential. The position requires determining processes for care delivery through direct patient/family communication, technology, and healthcare team collaboration.
Requirements
- BSN from an accredited school of nursing. If RN has an Associate’s Degree (ADN), must complete BSN within 5 years of start date.
- A minimum of 1 year of Registered Nurse clinical experience.
- BLS from American Heart Association (AHA).
- Licensed or eligible for licensure in the Commonwealth of Virginia as a Registered Nurse or an active multi-state Registered Nurse license.
Responsibilities
- 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.
Benefits
- Medical coverage
- Dental coverage
- Vision coverage
- Robust team member wellness program
- 401k matching (matches the first 5% of eligible contributions)
- Up to $5,250 per year in education assistance
- Up to $10,000 for student loans
- 25 mental health coaching or therapy sessions per person, per year, at no cost for team members, spouses/partners, and children
- Paid time off
- Paid parental leave
- Flexible work schedules
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
