What are the responsibilities and job description for the Registered Nurse (RN) Unit Supervisor Cardiac Telemetry Progressive Care Unit position at Inova Health System?
Inova Alexandria Hospital is looking for a dedicated Experienced Registered Nurse (RN) Unit Supervisor to join the Cardiac Telemetry Progressive Care team. This role will be full-time night shift from Monday - Friday (including some weekend shifts), 7:00 p.m. - 7:00 a.m. Sign-on bonus and relocation assistance available for eligible nurses.
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.
We honor our RN'S for providing world-class healthcare-every time, every touch- to each person in every community we have the privilege to serve! Inova Alexandria's Hospital Cardiac Telemetry Progressive Care Unit is a 40-bed acute care unit with the capacity of providing 24-hour telemetry monitoring. The population not only includes patients with cardiac disorders, and other complex diagnoses that require monitoring. The top DRGS: CHF, chest pain, stable cardiac arrhythmias, pneumonia, COPD, appendectomy, laparoscopic cholecystectomy, uterine procedures, ureteral surgeries, major small/large bowel obstructions, post craniotomy patient and spinal surgeries transfers from ICU. Nurses are trained to be able to manage patients on high flow oxygen and BIPAP.
Featured Benefits:
- 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
Registered Nurse (RN) Unit Supervisor Cardiac Telemetry Progressive Care Job Responsibilities:
- Conducts high-quality shift huddles by communicating strategic priorities related to target, actual and gap barriers in addition to small tests of change, results of rounding, challenges, celebrations and other matters
- Conducts effective safety huddles and conducts or appropriately delegates all environmental and safety rounding and conducts and ensures that Patient, Medical Director and RN rounding is completed for areas of responsibility
- Rounds on staff continually and serves to remove or escalate barriers to providing quality care while enhancing staff engagement
- Reviews core measures, key performance indicators and other metrics relevant to unit/patient populations and participates in the analysis of unit based service outcomes as well as development of action plans that lead to systematic improvements in outcomes
- Participates in emergency and safety preparedness drills/trainings as required
- Ensures adherence to The Joint Commission standards that are relevant to areas of responsibility and ensures that team members are knowledgeable of related standards
- Contributes to professional decision making to support and/or implement unit-based quality improvement work and strategic outcomes
- Serves as role model to others in communication to patients, identifying concerns, diffusing potentially difficult situations and facilitating resolution
Minimum Qualifications:
- Education: BSN from an accredited school of nursing. If RN has an associate's degree (ADN); must be within one (1) year of completing BSN
- Experience: Requires a minimum of 1-year Registered Nurse clinical experience in the acute care setting.
- Certification: Currently licensed as a Registered Nurse in the State of Virginia or hold a privilege to practice in the State of Virginia under the Enhanced Nurse Licensure Compact (eNLC). Basic Life Support (BLS) for Healthcare Provider certification from the American Heart Association required upon start. Specialty certification (as required by unit) within one (1) year from date of hire. Completion of a revised Charge Nurse workshop within the first 90 days (3 months) of employment
Preferred Qualifications:
- Previous experience in Cardiac Telemetry, Progressive Care strongly preferred.
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.
Salary : $5,250