Registered Nurse - Medical Innovation Unit - Full Time - Shift Varies
About The Position
The registered professional nurse uses nursing skills to carry out the nursing process, including assessment, diagnosis, outcomes identification, planning, evaluation, documentation, and time management. The nurse is responsible for quality communication, teamwork, and professionalism, and directs, coordinates, and implements patient teaching, quality and safety initiatives, and the activities of other health team personnel while maintaining professional nursing standards. A Registered Nurse I (RN I) provides care to the assigned patient population and completes annual mandatory and unit-specific competencies. The RN I also fulfills Professional Practice Ladder requirements, including assuming Charge Nurse responsibility; participating in performance-improvement activity and department initiatives; sharing information with the Director/Designee and coworkers from unit or hospital committees, paid education events, workshops, or nursing articles; and maintaining and submitting an annual portfolio by March 1. The RN I routinely solicits and validates patient and family satisfaction, participates in unit peer review, and develops educational bulletin-board or poster materials for staff, patients, or family members.
Requirements
- Associate-level nursing education through an RN Diploma, ASN, or ADN.
- An RN license, or eligibility to practice pending licensure as a Registered Nurse in Virginia, with a Virginia-valid single-state license or a multistate Nurse Licensure Compact license, as applicable.
- American Heart Association-approved BLS (Basic Life Support) Healthcare Provider certification before completing orientation.
- Competence in providing care appropriate to patients’ cognitive, physical, emotional, and chronological stages of growth and development.
- Competence in providing patient care using the nursing process.
- A reliable means of phone communication with the hospital.
- For an RNA beginning employment as an RN I or promoting to RN I from a Valley Health position: obtain an Eligibility to Test Letter from the Virginia Board of Nursing, or interim phone primary-source verification and documentation by Valley Health Nurse Recruitment while awaiting the letter, if a Virginia or non-compact-state resident.
- A resident of a Compact state other than Virginia must first obtain a home-state Compact license with multistate privileges before beginning RN employment as an RN I.
- For Labor and Delivery RNs only: ACLS or EKG certification within six months of hire.
- For Labor and Delivery RNs only: completion of a pharmacology class within six months of hire.
Nice To Haves
- Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN).
- Relevant specialty certification.
Responsibilities
- Provide nursing care to the assigned patient population using the nursing process.
- Carry out assessment, diagnosis, outcomes identification, planning, evaluation, documentation, and time management.
- Communicate effectively and contribute to teamwork, leadership, and professionalism.
- Direct, coordinate, and implement patient teaching, quality and safety initiatives, and activities of other health team personnel.
- Complete annual mandatory competencies and unit-specific competencies identified by the Director/Designee.
- Fulfill Professional Practice Ladder requirements, including assuming Charge Nurse responsibility and participating in performance-improvement activity and department initiatives.
- Share information with the Director/Designee and coworkers from unit or hospital committees, paid education events, workshops, or nursing articles.
- Maintain a portfolio and submit it to the Director/Designee annually by March 1.
- Routinely solicit and validate patient and family satisfaction.
- Participate in peer review for the unit.
- Develop educational bulletin-board or poster materials for staff, patients, or family members.
Benefits
- Competitive salary.
- Zero-deductible health plan.
- Dental and vision insurance.
- Generous paid time off.
- Tuition assistance.
- Retirement savings match.
- Employee Assistance Program.
- Membership in Healthy U, an incentive-based wellness program.
- Health savings account and flexible spending account for childcare.
- Life insurance.
- Short-term and long-term disability.
- Professional development.
- Discounts to on-campus dining.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
Associate degree
