Registered Nurse (RN) Acute Rehabilitation

Inova Mount Vernon Hospital is seeking a Rehabilitation Registered Nurse to join the Inpatient Rehabilitation Unit. This full-time day shift position provides care to patients with spinal cord and traumatic brain injuries, post-cerebral vascular accidents, transplant, stroke, and other acute rehabilitation needs.

Clinical Setting

Inova Mount Vernon Hospital is a Magnet-recognized 237-bed hospital featuring the nationally recognized Inova Rehabilitation Center, ranked among the top rehabilitation programs in the country. The hospital also houses the Inova Joint Replacement Center and the region's largest Inova Wound Healing Center.

Schedule

• Full-time day shift
• 12-hour shifts (7 am - 7 pm)

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 the needs of patients and families 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 the development of clinical decision-making in all 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 outcomes measurement 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 and ensure that 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 own Team Member Continuing Education Record
• Evaluate clinical and quality outcomes and contribute to performance improvement initiatives
• Perform additional duties as assigned

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) from an accredited school of nursing. If you hold an Associate's Degree in Nursing (ADN), you must complete a BSN within 5 years of the start date
• Minimum of 1 year of Registered Nurse clinical experience. This position will consider RNs with long-term care, rehabilitation, home health, and outpatient experience
• Basic Life Support (BLS) certification from the American Heart Association (AHA)
• Licensed or eligible for licensure in the Commonwealth of Virginia as a Registered Nurse, or hold an active multi-state Registered Nurse license

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior inpatient or sub-acute rehabilitation nursing experience
• Medical/surgical or medical/surgical telemetry unit experience