Registered Nurse (RN) - Float Pediatrics
Inova Fairfax Hospital
Falls Church, VA
Nights

We are currently seeking a dedicated and experienced Registered Nurse (RN) to join our PEDs Float Pool team on a full-time basis during night shifts.
Position Type: Full-Time, night Shift
As a Critical Care (CC) Registered Nurse – Float Pool, you will provide knowledgeable/caring clinical practice and care coordination through an understanding of patients, families, nurses and healthcare delivery teams. To help achieve our mission, you will consistently provide safe/therapeutic care in a holistic and systematic way while incorporating differences into the provision of care. Ensuring that all patient care activities and interactions are patient/family centered is of vital importance. Your ability to integrate knowledge, skills and experiences to meet the needs of patients and families throughout the continuum of care, to include patient and family education, is expected. Providing direction and guidance to others regarding practice while serving as a resource, preceptor and mentor is required. Serving as an empowering body to influence patient empowerment as well as successful outcomes of financial and clinical quality through relationships and access based knowledge is essential.
Job Responsibilities

- Performs comprehensive patient health assessments by interpreting multiple, sometimes conflicting, 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
- Supports and empowers patient/families as they progress through the healthcare continuum from health promotion to end of life decisions
- Advocates for patients' rights from the patient/family perspective while providing counsel and acting as a resource to resolve issues
- Anticipates ethical, spiritual and cultural needs of patients and intervenes to maximize 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 outcomes of documentation and contributes to related performance improvement initiatives
- Assists staff with assessing patients' learning needs and outcomes measurement of patient education
- Collaborates with multidisciplinary healthcare teams and leads other disciplines to meet desired outcomes
- Communicates effectively and works cooperatively with others, has respect for and an understanding of other clinical disciplines and uses an integrated approach toward achieving desired patient outcomes
- Keeps informed of unit initiatives and incorporates the outcomes of team or committee work into practice
- Acts as a clinical resource and serves as a mentor to healthcare team members
- Identifies own learning needs and develops professional goals, seeks opportunities to obtain education to enhance practice, collaborates in the development and implementation of educational plans for identified needs, and reviews self-development plan and professional goals
- Demonstrates evidence of self-development by obtaining a minimum of six formal contact hours and maintains own Team Member Continuing Education Record
- May perform additional duties as assigned
Requirements:
- 2 years PEDs RN critical care experience required - preferred expereince 2 years of NICU

- BSN from an accredited school of nursing. If RN has an Associates Degree (ADN); must complete BSN within 5 years of start date.
- BLS, ACLS, and PALS required from (AHA) American Heart Association
- RN licensed, or eligible to practice in the Commonwealth of Virginia as a RN
- Proficient in English, strong verbal and written communication skills.