Registered Nurse (RN) - Float ICU - Intensive Care Unit
Inova Fair Oaks Hospital
Fairfax, VA
Days

Hospital Info:
Inova Fair Oaks Hospital is a top-ranked 182-bed acute care community hospital serving the rapidly growing suburbs of Northern Virginia. Inova Fair Oaks Hospital is committed to providing safe care, excellent service and is continuously striving to improve each patient's unique experience. That's why every patient we serve is a VIP – a Very Important Patient.
Float Pool:
The Inova Fair Oaks Float Pool is a team of diversely trained registered nurses and clinical tech’s that float across multiple units and specialties. Critical care Float Pool RN’s regularly float to the ICU, PACU, ED, PCU, Medical, and Surgical units. Adult Care Float Pool RN’s regularly float to PCU, Surgical, and Medical units. Woman’s and Children’s Float Pool RN’s can float to L&D, Post-Partum and NICU (if trained). The IFOH Float Pool is unique in that it fully staffs an 11 bed overflow unit capable of caring for ICU, IMC, and acute care patients. The IFOH Float Pool is a great place for experienced RN’s to grow and develop skills in multiple patient care environments.

The Critical Care (CC) Registered Nurse – Float Pool 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 that all patient care activities and interactions are patient/family centered. Integrates knowledge, skills and experiences to meet the needs of patients and families throughout the continuum of care, to include patient and family education. Provides direction and guidance to others regarding practice while serving as a resource, preceptor and mentor and serves as an empowering body to influence patient empowerment as well as successful outcomes of financial and clinical quality through relationships and access based knowledge.Assignments in Float pool will be limited as deemed appropriate by hiring leader.

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 of Critical Care RN experience
- Education: BSN from an accredited school of nursing.
- If RN has an Associates Degree (ADN); must complete BSN within 5 years of start date.
- BLS for Healthcare Provider Certification (American Heart Association) and ACLS (American Heart Association) required