Registered Nurse; RN Patient Care Navigator - Transplant Infectious Diseases

Registered Nurse (RN) Patient Care Navigator - Transplant Infectious Diseases

Falls Church, VA, United States

Full time, day shift:
Monday – Friday, 8:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. (must be flexible). Rotation between inpatient and outpatient care at Inova Fairfax Hospital and the Inova Center for Personalized Health, located near Inova Fairfax Hospital.

Inova Fairfax Hospital is looking for a dedicated Registered Nurse (RN) Patient Care Navigator to join the Transplant Infectious Disease team.

• Committed to Team Member Health: offering medical, dental and vision coverage, and a robust team member wellness program.
• Retirement: Inova matches the first 5% of eligible contributions - starting on your first day.
• Tuition and Student Loan Assistance: offering up to $5,250 per year in education assistance and up to $10,000 for student loans.
• Mental Health Support: offering all Inova team members, their spouses/partners, and their children 25 mental health coaching or therapy sessions, per person, per year, at no cost.
• Work/Life Balance: offering paid time off, paid parental leave and flexible work schedules.

• Travel involved: rotation between inpatient and outpatient care at Inova Fairfax Hospital and the Inova Center for Personalized Health, located near Inova Fairfax Hospital.
• Guide patient and family through the health system from diagnosis, testing, treatment and follow-up care to assist patients with navigating the continuum of care.
• Coordinate a patient's plan of care with the Transplant Infectious Disease team which may include diagnostic test coordination and specialty medicine coordination and scheduling, patient education and knowledge assessment for complex treatment regimens.
• Assist patients and families with accessing treatment resources by advising of options and engaging appropriate resources.
• Manage complex cases effectively and efficiently. Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to address patient questions and responses about the care process and treatment options.
• Participate in obtaining quality outcomes such as decreasing patient infection and readmission rates.
• Develop and maintain reliable systems to document, track and monitor patient data.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

• Education: Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing
• Experience: 3 years of nursing experience
• Certification: Licensed in the Commonwealth of Virginia as a Registered Nurse;
  Basic Life Support from the American Heart Association

• Experience: Telemetry, Transplant, Infectious Diseases

Inova Health System is an Equal Opportunity employer. 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, pregnancy (including childbirth, pregnancy-related conditions and lactation), race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, veteran status, genetic information, or any other characteristics protected by law.