Registered Nurse (RN) - OR - Operating Room
Inova Alexandria Hospital
Alexandria, VA
Flexible

Inova Alexandria Hospital is currently hiring experienced Operating Room Registered Nurses to support our patients Thursday nights and flex weekdays. This role is part time -20 hours a week/Thursdays 7pm-7am, and 8 hours flex weekdays.
Inova Alexandria Hospital is a beautiful 318-bed community hospital located in the city of Alexandria. Our OR is equipped with 11 OR suites and 4 Endoscopy Suites. Comprehensive range of surgical specialties to include, orthopedics-total joints, sports medicine, spine, general ENT, gynecology, urology, plastics, vascular, neurosurgery, robotics, podiatry, and maxillofacial. Full range of Endoscopy services including Heartburn Treatment.
IAH awards and recognitions include:
Magnet designated
Recognized as 8th ranked best hospital in DMV and 9th best in VA
Leap Frog awarded Grade A for hospital safety
Joint Commission Hip/Knee Replacement Gold Seal of Approval
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 Operating Room 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:
- Work Schedule: Part time, Thursdays 7pm-7am and 8 hours flex weekday.
- Education: BSN or AD; if RN has an AD, must complete BSN within 5 years of start date.
- Experience: Minimum 1 year of direct Operating Room (OR) experience as a Registered Nurse.
- Licensure: Licensed in the Commonwealth of Virginia as a Registered Nurse.
- Certification: Basic Life Support with American Heart Association.