Night Shift, Part-Time Registered Nurse (RN) -Medical/Surgical Unit

Inova Mount Vernon Hospital is seeking a Registered Nurse for the Medical/Surgical Unit on a part-time, night shift basis. This role provides an opportunity to deliver knowledgeable and caring clinical practice within an award-winning community hospital recognized as a regional leader in behavioral health, orthopedics, rehabilitation therapy, wound care, and post-acute care.

You will provide safe and therapeutic patient care in a holistic and systematic manner, conducting all care in a patient and family-centered approach. You will work collaboratively with interdisciplinary healthcare teams to coordinate comprehensive care and support patient transitions.

Responsibilities

• Perform comprehensive patient health assessments by interpreting multiple data sets and synthesizing their interrelationships
• Formulate individualized plans of care based on assessment findings and interpret trends in patient populations to achieve best practice
• Conduct all patient care in a patient and family-centered manner, integrating knowledge, skills, and experiences to meet patient and family needs throughout the continuum of care
• Advocate for patients' rights from the patient and family perspective and provide counsel while acting as a resource to resolve issues
• Access resources from all disciplines to achieve desired patient outcomes and coordinate healthcare and alternate services for patient and family transition planning
• Document all patient care activities according to documentation standards and assist healthcare team members with documentation
• Evaluate processes to achieve outcomes, anticipate patient variances, and make revisions to plans of care
• Make clinical decisions based on experience, patient population data, and clinical intuition while promoting clinical decision-making development in team members
• Communicate effectively, work cooperatively with others, and demonstrate respect for and understanding of other clinical disciplines
• Assist staff to assess patients' learning needs and measure outcomes of patient education
• Provide direction and guidance to others regarding practice while serving as a clinical resource, preceptor, and mentor; delegate patient care activities and coordinate unit activities as needed
• Utilize standards, guidelines, and pathways for care delivery, ensuring the process for delivery of care is synthesized from direct patient and family communication, technology, and other healthcare team member collaboration
• Demonstrate evidence of self-development by obtaining a minimum of six formal contact hours and maintain your Team Member Continuing Education Record
• Evaluate clinical and quality outcomes and contribute to performance improvement initiatives
• Perform additional duties as assigned

Schedule

• Part-time, night shift

Required Qualifications

• Active licensure or eligibility for licensure in the Commonwealth of Virginia as a Registered Nurse, or an active multi-state Registered Nurse license
• Basic Life Support certification from the American Heart Association
• One year of experience as a Registered Nurse in a critical care unit, or completion of a critical care fellowship

Education

• Bachelor's Degree in Nursing or Associate's Degree in Nursing. If you hold an Associate's Degree, you must complete a Bachelor's Degree in Nursing within five years of the start date.

Preferred Qualifications

• One to two years of medical/surgical nursing experience