Registered Nurse (RN) - Pediatrics Medical/Surgery

Inova • Falls Church, VA

5d • $39 - $64 • Onsite

About The Position

Inova Fairfax Hospital - L.J. Children's Hospital is seeking an experienced RN to join the Med/Surg team within Inova's L.J. Murphy Children’s Hospital. This position involves a Day/Night Shift rotation and offers a sign-on bonus and relocation bonus. Our nationally recognized, 226-bed Inova Children’s Hospital provides comprehensive medical services and specialists focused on the unique treatment of younger patients. It is an award-winning, full-service children’s hospital dedicated to the healthcare of infants, children, and adolescents in the Northern Virginia area. The Registered Nurse provides knowledgeable and caring clinical practice and care coordination through an understanding of patients, families, nurses, and healthcare delivery teams. They consistently provide safe and therapeutic care in a holistic and systematic way, incorporating differences into the provision of care and conducting all patient care in a patient/family-centered manner. The role integrates knowledge, skills, and experiences to meet patient and family needs throughout the continuum, including patient and family education. Effective communication and cooperation with others, along with respect for and understanding of other clinical disciplines, are essential. The role determines processes for care delivery through direct patient/family communication, technology, and collaboration with other healthcare team members.

Requirements

• Certification - Basic Life Support (American Heart Association); Pediatric Advanced Life Support within 6 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
• Experience - 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 - Bachelor's Degree Nursing or Associate's Degree. If RN has an Associate's Degree, must complete BSN within 5 years of start date.

Nice To Haves

• Education: BSN
• Experience: 1-2 years of pediatrics bedside nursing

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
• Inova matches the first 5% of eligible contributions – starting on your first day.
• 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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: Associate degree