What are the responsibilities and job description for the Registered Nurse- Part-Time Medical/Cardiac ICU Nights position at Inova Health System?
The Medical/Cardiac ICU at Inova Loudoun Hospital is seeking an experienced ICU Registered Nurse. This is a part-time, night shift position working 7:00pm - 7:00am.
2 x 12-hour shifts each week.
Must be able to orient during various shifts
This Beacon Award Winning Intensive Care Unit (ICU) is a challenging Medical/Cardiac ICU that cares for a variety of diagnoses in our 12-bed unit. The patient population includes but is not limited to end-stage disease processes, sepsis, advanced heart failure, stroke, cardiac arrest, respiratory failure and others that require more intensive nursing care.
Inova Loudoun Hospital is a growing 211-bed nationally recognized acute-care community hospital with a rich history of proudly serving our growing and diverse community since 1912. We provide compassionate and comprehensive care for the entire family.
The Inova RN:
-Provides knowledgeable and caring clinical practice and care coordination through an understanding of the patient, family, nurse, and healthcare delivery team.
-Consistently provides safe, therapeutic care in a holistic and systematic way. Incorporates differences into the provision of care.
-Conducts all patient care in a patient and family-centered manner.
-Integrates knowledge, skills, and experiences to meet the needs of patients and families throughout the continuum, including patient and family education.
-Uses an integrated approach toward patient outcomes.
-Serves as an empowering body to influence patient empowerment, and successful outcomes of financial and clinical quality, through relationships and access-based knowledge. Utilizes standards, guidelines, and pathways for care delivery.
-Determines process for delivery of care from direct patient and family communication, technology, and other healthcare team member collaboration.
-Ensures improvements in practice settings by assuming responsibility for self-development in life-long learning
Minimum Qualifications:
- Experience: 1 year of experience as a Registered Nurse in a critical care setting or completion of a critical care fellowship.
- Certifications: BLS for healthcare provider certification from AHA required. ACLS (must obtain within 6 months of hire).
- Licensure: RN licensed, or eligible to practice in the Commonwealth of Virginia as an RN.
- Education: BSN from an accredited school of nursing.
If RN has an Associates Degree (ADN)- must complete BSN within 5 years of start date.
Preferred Qualifications:
- 2 years of ICU experience
- Unit involvement
As a recipient of federal financial assistance, Inova Health System (“Inova”) does not exclude, deny benefits to, or otherwise discriminate against any person on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, disability, or age in admission to, participation in, or receipt of the services or benefits under any of its programs or activities, whether carried out by Inova directly or through a contractor or any other entity with which Inova arranges to carry out its programs and activities.
This policy is in accordance with the provisions of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the Age Discrimination Act of 1975, Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act, and regulations of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services issued pursuant to these statutes at 45 C.F.R. Parts 80, 84, 91 and 92, respectively.