Registered Nurse (RN) - OR - Operating Room
Inova Fairfax Hospital
Falls Church, VA
Flexible

The Operating Room (OR) Registered Nurse provides knowledgeable and caring clinical practice and care coordination through an understanding of patients, families, nurses and healthcare delivery teams. Consistently provides safe and therapeutic care in a holistic and systematic way while incorporating differences into the provision of care. Ensures all patient care activities and interactions are patient and family centered by integrating knowledge, skills and experiences to meet the needs of patients and families throughout the continuum of care, to include patient and family education. Communicates effectively and works cooperatively with others while showing respect for and an understanding of other clinical disciplines. Uses an integrated approach toward achieving desired patient outcomes while serving as an empowering body to influence patient empowerment and successful outcomes of financial and clinical quality, through relationships and access based knowledge.

Job Responsibilities

- Performs comprehensive patient health assessments by interpreting multiple, sometimes conflicting, data sets and synthesizing their interrelationships
- Formulates individualized plans of care based upon assessment findings and interpreting trends in patient populations to achieve best practice
- Supports and empowers patients and 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 and provides counsel and acts as a resource to resolve issues
- Anticipates ethical, spiritual and cultural needs of patients/families and assists staff in assessing patients' learning needs
- Coordinates healthcare and alternate services for patient and family transition planning
- Documents all patient care activities, as per documentation standards, and assists healthcare team members with documentation
- Evaluates processes to achieve outcomes, anticipates patient variances and makes revisions to plans of care
- Collaborates with the multidisciplinary team and incorporates their expertise to achieve desired patient outcomes
- Mentors staff in understanding and advocating for the importance of utilizing relationship based care initiatives in nursing practice
- Utilizes standards, guidelines and pathways for care delivery and participates in quality improvement initiatives
- Reviews self-development plan and professional goals, identifies own learning needs and seeks opportunities to obtain education to enhance practice
- Demonstrates evidence of self-development by obtaining a minimum of six formal contact hours and maintaining own Team Member Continuing Education Record
- When on call, initiates coordination of multidisciplinary resources to support complex surgical patients in emergent situations and ensures resources are used appropriately and that the same standard of care is delivered
- May perform additional duties as assigned

Additional Requirements

Certification - Basic Life SupportLicensure - Licensed or eligible for licensure in the Commonwealth of Virginia as a Registered Nurse or an active multi-state Registered Nurse licenseExperience - 1 year of direct Operating Room (OR) experience as a Registered Nurse or completion of an OR fellowship.Education - Bachelor's Degree Nursing or Associate's Degree. If RN has an Associate's Degree, within 2 years of date of hire, they must meet with their nurse leader and conduct the following: 1.) Identify which accredited school they plan to attend 2.) Provide a written plan with anticipated BSN completion date 3.) Submit a review of transcripts from the school indicating the required pre-requisites and timeline for taking the courses 4.) Complete BSN within 5 years of start date.