Inova Alexandria Hospital is looking for a dedicated Registered Nurse (RN) to join the Wound Ostomy team. This role will be Full-Time; Options: 3-12-Hour Shifts or 5-8-Hour Shifts.
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.
Registered Nurse (RN) Job Responsibilities
- Performs comprehensive patient health assessments by interpreting multiple data sets and synthesizing their interrelationships
- Formulates individualized plans of care based on assessment findings and interpreting trends in patient populations to achieve best practice
- Accesses resources from all disciplines to achieve desired patient outcomes and coordinates healthcare and alternate services for patient/family transition planning
- Documents all patient care activities, as per documentation standards, and assists healthcare team members with documentation
- Evaluates the process to achieve outcomes, anticipates patient variances and makes revisions to plans of care
- 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
- Utilizes standards, guidelines and pathways for care delivery and ensures that the process for delivery of care is synthesized from direct patient/family communication, technology and other healthcare team member collaboration
- Demonstrates evidence of self-development by obtaining a minimum of six formal contact hours and maintains own Team Member Continuing Education Record
- Evaluates clinical and quality outcomes and contributes to performance improvement initiatives
- May perform additional duties as assigned
Minimum Qualifications
- Education: BSN or AD. If RN has an AD, within 2 years from date of hire, they must meet with their nurse leader and conduct the following: 1.) Identify which accredited school they plan to attend 2.) Provide a written plan with anticipated BSN completion date 3.) Submit a review of transcripts from the school indicating the required pre-requisites and timeline for taking the courses 4.) Complete BSN within 5 years of start date
- Experience: 1 year of experience as a Registered Nurse
- Certification: Basic Life Support from the American Heart Association; Licensed or eligible for licensure in the Commonwealth of Virginia as a Registered Nurse or an active multi-state Registered Nurse license
Preferred Qualifications
- Certification: Certified Wound Ostomy Continence Nurse (CWOCN)
- Other: Familiar with our Wound Ostomy Team; comfortability with speaking in front of an audience; strong teamwork ethic
- We are Inova, Northern Virginia’s leading nonprofit healthcare provider.
- Every day, our 26,000+ team members provide world-class healthcare to the communities we serve.
- Our people are the reason we're a national leader in healthcare safety, quality and patient experience.
- And from best-in-class facilities to professional development opportunities, we support them at every step.
- At Inova, we're constantly striving to be ever better — to shape a more compassionate future for healthcare.
Inova Health System is an Equal Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, color, disability, gender identity or expression, marital status, national or ethnic origin, political affiliation, pregnancy (including childbirth, pregnancy-related conditions and lactation), race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, veteran status, genetic information, or any other characteristics protected by law.
