- Specialty: Clinic
- Discipline: RN
- Start Date: ASAP
- Duration: Ongoing
- Shift: flexible
- Employment Type: Staff
Staff - Director Registered Nurse (RN) - Clinic - $34-54 per - Fairfax, United States - Inova Health System
Description
Inova Health System is seeking a Registered Nurse (RN) Clinic Director for a nursing job in Fairfax, Virginia.
Job Description & Requirements
Join Inova Fair Oaks Hospital as the Director of Medical Inpatient Unit Inova is looking for a vibrant, tech-savvy, innovative, people-oriented leader to promote and champion our mission, vision, values and foster an inclusive environment of collaboration, partnership, and continued professional growth and development.
The Medical unit has 36 comfortably appointed, private inpatient rooms. The unit includes a relaxation room for staff in addition to a staff locker/break room. We are a dynamic group who respect and encourage teamwork and peer to peer recognition and mentoring. Staff is actively involved in Shared Governance through committee work, both on the unit and hospital level; ensuring that nurses are involved in decision making and have a voice at all levels of the organization. We pride ourselves on our low staff turnover, high staff and patient satisfaction scores, and our enriching and supportive work environment.
Inova Fair Oaks Hospital is a top-ranked 182-bed acute care community hospital serving the rapidly growing suburbs of Northern Virginia. Inova Fair Oaks Hospital is committed to providing safe care, excellent service and is continuously striving to improve each patient's unique experience. That's why every patient we serve is a VIP a Very Important Patient. Inova Fair Oaks Hospital has been named a Magnet organization, one of the highest levels of recognition a hospital can achieve for excellence in nursing services.
The Director Clinical Inpatient Unit oversees assigned unit to ensure it is performing effectively, which may include but not limited to, preparing and implementing business strategy to achieve the organizations goals, ensuring legal compliance, communicating and collaborating with stakeholders, managing employment decisions and contributions of supporting team members, and managing departmental budget and fiscal success. Serves as a primary liaison and information resource for assigned unit. Oversees the provision of therapeutic care in a holistic and evidence-based environment, which produces excellent patient care with optimal patient outcomes.
Job Responsibilities
- Demonstrates leadership traits and supporting behavioral competencies.
- Manages clinical and non-clinical staff including day to day supervision, team member relations and staff development.
- Creates, in conjunction with supervisor, a self-development plan related to professional goals. Ensures demonstrated continued competence.
- Serves as a primary liaison and information resource for unit. Oversees the provision of therapeutic care in a holistic and evidence-based environment which produces excellent patient care with optimal patient outcomes.
- Serves as physician liaison and primary information resource/contact for the unit. Ensures compliance with the unit plan for physician satisfaction.
- Ensures use of guidelines, standards and evidence-based practice in care delivery, producing quality patient outcomes and a safe patient environment.
- Demonstrates sound operational skills by ensuring 24 hour coverage for the unit(s), maintaining and monitoring budgetary standards and utilizing resources effectively and appropriately.
- Monitors patient/physician satisfaction and seeks ways to improve by ensuring continuous implementation of evidence-based practices to include, but not limited to, discharge phone calls, leadership rounding (patients, physicians and internal customers), AIDET and HML conversations.
Additional Requirements:
Experience: One year of leadership experience and two years of acute care nursing experience. Leadership experience may include RN Unit Supervisor Role, dedicated charge nurse or Assistant Nurse Manager or equivalent role.
Education: Bachelor's Degree in Nursing (BSN)
Licensure: Licensed in the Commonwealth of Virginia as a Registered Nurse or compact license. Proof required within 30 days of hire.
Certification: BLS (AHA) American Heart Association. ACLS required for Emergency Department, Critical Care and Procedural areas. Specialty Certification in area related to unit's clinical scope, or in Nursing Administration.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities (KSAs): Proven leadership skills, effective communication skills. Patient focus and effective assessment, evaluation, and resolution skills.
Inova Job ID # Posted job title: clinical director (rn) medical unit inova fair oaks hospital