Registered Nurse (RN) - Lactation RN
Inova Fairfax Hospital
Falls Church, VA
Days

Inova Fairfax Medical Center is looking for a dedicated Registered Nurse (RN) Lactation Consultant to join the team. This role will be full-day/evening shift 36 hours/week Sign-on bonus and relocation assistance eligible.
Lactation/ Inova Fairfax Medical Campus, Women’s Service Line
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, and remote and hybrid career opportunities.
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
- 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
- Communicates effectively, works cooperatively with others, and has respect for and an understanding of other clinical disciplines
- Assists staff to assess patients' learning needs and outcomes measurement of patient education
- 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
Additional Information:
- Work schedule: Day/evening shifts, 36 hours/week. Evenings shifts are typically 11am-11pm. Staff will be expected to work weekend requirement and holiday retirement as set by unit.
- Education Requirement: BSN from an accredited school of nursing. If RN has an Associate’s Degree (ADN); must complete BSN within 5 years of start date.
- Experience: Required 1 year of experience as a Registered Nurse, for Critical Care units, 1 year of experience as a Registered Nurse in a critical care setting or completion of a critical care fellowship.
- Required Certification: Basic Life Support (BLS) for Healthcare Provider certification from the American Heart Association required upon start | For Critical Care Units: Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support - Within 6 Months | For Pediatric Units: Pediatric Advanced Life Support- Within 6 Months | For Infusion Center Units: Obtain chemo card- within 3 months of hire
- Required Licensure: Licensed or eligible for licensure in the Commonwealth of Virginia as a Registered Nurse or an active multi-state Registered Nurse license
- Preferred Qualifications: Two years of experience as a Registered Nurse in a postpartum unit, with current certification as an IBCLC. Candidates who do not already hold the IBCLC certification obtain it within one year of hire.