Registered Nurse; RN Intermediate Cardiac Care Unit

Job Description

Inova Fairfax Medical Campus is looking for a dedicated Registered Nurse (RN) Intermediate Cardiac Care Unit to join the team. This role will be full-time, nights 7:00 p.m. – 7:00 a.m.; rotating weekends (every 3rd) and holiday rotations (2 per year). Sign on and relocation bonuses are available for eligible nurses.

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

• Performs comprehensive patient health assessments by interpreting multiple data sets and synthesizing their relationships.
• 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.

• Education:
  
  BSN or AD. If RN has an AD, within 2 years from the date of hire they must meet with their nurse leader and conduct the following plan:
  Identify which accredited school they plan to attend, provide a written plan with anticipated BSN completion date, submit a review of transcripts from the school indicating the required pre‑requisites and timeline for taking the courses, and complete the BSN within 5 years of the start date.
• Experience:
  
  One year of experience as a Registered Nurse in a critical care unit or completion of a critical care fellowship.
• Certification: BLS & ACLS from the American Heart Association; licensed or eligible for licensure in the Commonwealth of Virginia as a Registered Nurse or an active multi‑state Registered Nurse license.

• Experience:
  
  Telemetry, med/surg; if outpatient – must have cardiac experience; if inpatient – must have a strong foundation.
• Other:
  Must be open to feedback/learning, have a positive mindset, strong bedside manner, strong emotional intelligence and people connection, and strong conversational skills.

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.