What are the responsibilities and job description for the Director, Nursing, Progressive Care Unit position at Inova Fair Oaks Hospital?
Inova Fair Oaks Hospital is seeking an experienced front-line leader to manage our 36-bed Progressive Care Unit.
The Progressive Care Director oversees assigned units to ensure they are performing effectively, which may include but not limited to, preparing and implementing business strategy to achieve the organization’s goals, ensuring legal compliance, communicating and collaborating with stakeholders, managing employment decisions and contributions of supporting team members, and managing departmental budget and fiscal success. Serves as a primary liaison and information resource for assigned unit. Oversees the provision of therapeutic care in a holistic and evidence-based environment, which produces excellent patient care with optimal patient outcomes.
Inova is consistently ranked a national healthcare leader in safety, quality and patient experience. We are also proud to be consistently recognized as a top employer in both the D.C. metro area and the nation.
Nursing at Inova Fair Oaks Hospital
Job Responsibilities
The Progressive Care Director oversees assigned units to ensure they are performing effectively, which may include but not limited to, preparing and implementing business strategy to achieve the organization’s goals, ensuring legal compliance, communicating and collaborating with stakeholders, managing employment decisions and contributions of supporting team members, and managing departmental budget and fiscal success. Serves as a primary liaison and information resource for assigned unit. Oversees the provision of therapeutic care in a holistic and evidence-based environment, which produces excellent patient care with optimal patient outcomes.
Inova is consistently ranked a national healthcare leader in safety, quality and patient experience. We are also proud to be consistently recognized as a top employer in both the D.C. metro area and the nation.
Nursing at Inova Fair Oaks Hospital
Job Responsibilities
- Ensures use of guidelines, standards and evidence-based practice in care delivery, producing quality patient outcomes and a safe patient environment.
- Serves as a physician liaison and primary information resource/contact for the unit. Ensures compliance with the unit plan for physician satisfaction.
- Maintains and monitors budgetary standards and utilizes 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
- 1 year of leadership experience (leadership experience may include RN Unit Supervisor Role, dedicated charge nurse or Assistant Nurse Manager or equivalent role)
- 2 years of acute care nursing experience
- Education - Bachelors Degree in Nursing
- Licensed in the Commonwealth of Virginia as a Registered Nurse
- Certification - Basic Life Support upon start; Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support upon start required for Critical Care and Procedural areas, PALS upon start for Pediatric Units, and NRP upon start for NICUs
- Masters degree
- Experience mentoring and developing teams
