Inova Health System is seeking a Registered Nurse (RN) Clinic Med Surg Director for a nursing job in Alexandria, Virginia.

• Specialty: Med Surg
• Discipline: RN
• Start Date: ASAP
• Duration: Ongoing
• Shift: days
• Employment Type: Staff

Join Inova Alexandria Hospital as the Director of Medical Surgical Inpatient Unit! Inova is looking for a vibrant, tech-savvy, innovative, people-oriented leader to promote and champion our mission, vision, values and foster an inclusive environment of collaboration, partnership, and continued professional growth and development.
Inova Alexandria Hospital is a 318-bed community hospital that offers a full range of healthcare services and has received national recognition for healthcare excellence. From babies to seniors, Inova Alexandria Hospital Provides World-Class Medical Care. We are dedicated to continually expanding our programs and services to help ensure we meet the healthcare needs of the communities we serve today and in the future.
23 North is a 52- bed semi-private unit that serves a broad spectrum of medical needs. Patient length of stay is typically under one week. You will be part of a dynamic team that thrives on shared governance, ensuring that our core values of “Patient Always” and “One Team” are at the center of care. Our multi-skilled patient care providers pride themselves in the delivery of outcome oriented and safe care for our diverse patient population.
Job Responsibilities
- Demonstrates leadership traits and supporting behavioral competencies.
- Manages clinical and non-clinical staff including day to day supervision, team member relations and staff development.
- Creates, in conjunction with supervisor, a self-development plan related to professional goals. Ensures demonstrated continued competence.
- Serves as a primary liaison and information resource for unit. Oversees the provision of therapeutic care in a holistic and evidence based environment which produces excellent patient care with optimal patient outcomes.
- Serves as physician liaison and primary information resource/contact for the unit. Ensures compliance with the unit plan for physician satisfaction.
- Ensures use of guidelines, standards and evidence based practice in care delivery, producing quality patient outcomes and a safe patient environment.
- Demonstrates sound operational skills by ensuring 24 hour coverage for the unit(s), maintaining and monitoring budgetary standards and utilizing resources effectively and appropriately.
- Monitors patient/physician satisfaction and seeks ways to improve by ensuring continuous implementation of evidence based practices to include, but not limited to, discharge phone calls, leadership rounding (patients, physicians and internal customers), AIDET and HML conversations.
Additional Requirements:
Experience: One year of leadership experience and two years of acute care nursing experience. Leadership experience may include RN Unit Supervisor Role, dedicated charge nurse or Assistant Nurse Manager or equivalent role.
Education: Bachelors Degree in Nursing (BSN)
Licensure: Licensed in the Commonwealth of Virginia as a Registered Nurse or compact license. Proof required within 30 days of hire.
Certification: BLS (AHA) American Heart Association. ACLS required for Emergency Department, Critical Care and Procedural areas. Specialty Certification in area related to unit's clinical scope, or in Nursing Administration.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities (KSAs): Proven leadership skills, effective communication skills. Patient focus and effective assessment, evaluation, and resolution skills.

Inova Job ID #651758. Posted job title: clinical director (rn) - medical surgical (unit 23)