What are the responsibilities and job description for the Registered Nurse - Urgent Heart Failure Clinic position at Inova Health System?
Inova Fairfax Hospital is looking for a dedicated Urgent Heart Failure Clinic Registered Nurse to join the team. This role will be full-time, day shift: option to work 5-8 hour shifts or 4-10 hour shifts. Monday - Friday (must be flexible depending on patient need). No travel required. Sign-on bonus and relocation assistance eligible.
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.
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, & flexible work schedules.
Urgent Heart Failure Clinic Registered Nurse Job Responsibilities:
- Facilitates the daily operations of the APP-led clinic by providing same-day or next-day evaluations and executing established protocols for outpatient IV bolus diuretics to stabilize volume-overloaded patients and prevent hospitalization
- Works closely with heart failure cardiologists, APPs, and pharmacists to design and deploy individualized treatment plans while providing comprehensive patient and family education regarding medications and care goals
- Utilizes an integrated, collaborative approach to achieve desired outcomes, serving as a vital resource and mentor to the healthcare team while demonstrating strong leadership in decision-making and problem-solving
- 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
- Accesses resources from all disciplines to achieve desired patient outcomes and coordinates healthcare and alternate services for patient/family transition planning
- Makes clinical decisions based on experience, patient population data and intuition while promoting the development of clinical decision making of all team members
- Assists staff to assess patients' learning needs and outcomes measurement of patient education
- Provides direction and guidance to others regarding practice while serving as a clinical resource, preceptor, and mentor and delegates patient care activities and coordinates unit activities as needed
- Demonstrates evidence of self-development by obtaining a minimum of six formal contact hours and maintains own Team Member Continuing Education Record
- May perform additional duties as assigned
Minimum Qualifications:
- Experience: A minimum of 1 year of Registered Nurse clinical experience.
- Education: BSN or ADN - If ADN then complete BSN within 5 years of start date
- Certification: BLS for Healthcare Provider Certification from the American Heart Association required
- License: RN licensed, and eligible to practice in the Commonwealth of Virginia.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience: Telemetry, ICU, CVICU, IMC - step down; heart failure experience is a plus.
- Skills: Proficiency in IV starts and assessment of volume-overloaded cardiac patients.
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