Registered Nurse (RN) Surgical Short Stay
About The Position
Inova Fairfax Medical Campus is seeking a Registered Nurse to join our Surgical Short Stay Unit. This is a Full-Time, Day Shift position with a work schedule of 12-hour days (7am – 7pm). The Registered Nurse provides knowledgeable and caring clinical practice and care coordination through an understanding of patients, families, nurses, and healthcare delivery teams. Consistently provides safe and therapeutic care in a holistic and systematic way while incorporating differences into the provision of care and conducting all patient care in a patient/family-centered manner. Integrates knowledge, skills, and experiences to meet the needs of patients and families throughout the continuum, to include patient and family education. Communicates effectively and works cooperatively with others while having respect for and an understanding of other clinical disciplines. Determines processes for delivery of care from direct patient/family communication, technology, and other healthcare team member 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.
Nice To Haves
- 1-2 years of med/surg experience
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, dental and 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.
- 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
