Registered Nurse (RN) Observation Unit

Inova Loudoun Hospital is looking for a dedicated Experienced Registered Nurse to join the Observation team. This role will be part-time Day shift from Monday Friday (including some weekends) 7:00 a.m. 7:00 p.m.

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 RNS for providing world-class healthcare-every time every touch- to each person in every community we have the privilege to serve! The Observation Unit at Inova Loudoun Hospital is a 27-bed unit with a rapid patient turnover of admission and discharges. The patient population consists of cardiac neurological medical and surgical patients. Learn the fast-paced atmosphere of an ER setting while gaining critical medical/surgical nursing skills. If you are a nurse who has strong time management skills works well as a team and strives in a fast-paced environment consider this opportunity that can offer professional and personal future growth.

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 $5250 per year in education assistance and up to $10000 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) Observation Unit Job Responsibilities:

• Performs comprehensive patient health assessments by interpreting multiple data sets and synthesizing their relationships.
• Formulates individualized plans of care based on assessment findings and interpreting trends in patient populations to achieve best practice.
• 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.
• Advocates for patients rights from the patient and family perspective and provides counsel while acting as a resource to resolve issues.
• 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.
• Makes clinical decisions based on experience patient population data and intuition while promoting the development of clinical decision making of all team members.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Education:Bachelors Degree Nursing or Associates Degree from an accredited school of nursing. If RN has an associates degree (ADN); must complete BSN within 5 years of start date.
• Experience: 1 year of Nursing experience
• Certification: Basic Life Support from the American Heart Association (upon start)
• Licensure: Registered Nurse (Licensed or eligible for licensure in the Commonwealth of Virginia as a Registered Nurse or an active multi-state Registered Nurse license.)

Preferred Qualifications:

• Previous experience in: Observation ED and Cardiac/Cardiac Telemetry strongly preferred.