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

Inova Mount Vernon Hospital is currently hiring a full-time day shift (40 weekly hours) dedicated Operating Room Registered Nurse with Ortho/Robotics experience. There is a call requirement (45-minute response time).
Inova Mount Vernon Hospital is a 237-bed hospital offering patients convenience and state-of-the-art care in a community environment. Our hospital sits on 26 acres of beautifully landscaped open space, where patients can find moments of serenity in our specially designed gardens. Inova Mount Vernon Hospital is home to the nationally recognized Inova Joint Replacement Center and Inova Rehabilitation Center. Both are ranked among the top orthopedic and rehabilitation programs in the country. It also is the administrative and clinical home for the Inova Wound Healing Center, the regions’ largest and most experienced.
Come join an engaging and passionate perioperative team dedicated to providing exemplary health care every time, every touch. Mount Vernon is a community hospital with 8 OR suites that serves the population in robotics, general, orthopedics, spine, plastics, ENT, urology, and gynecology. The OR functions 24/7 with the support of a call team on off-shifts and holidays. It is a fast- paced environment that focuses on strong teamwork and patient safety.
There are many opportunities for growth with our ADVANCE Clinical Ladder program, shared governance committees, and unit-based practice councils where your voice can make a difference.
Sign on bonus of up to $15,000 is available and relocation assistance to qualified candidates.
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: 8-hour, 10-hour, or 12-hour shifts (Monday-Friday days) with some weekends/call requirements.
- Education: BSN or AD; if RN has an AD, must complete BSN within 5 years of start date.
- Experience: Minimum1 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.