Registered Nurse - Urgent Heart Failure Clinic

Inova Fairfax Hospital is looking for a dedicated Urgent Heart Failure Clinic Registered Nurse to join the team. This role will be full-time, day shift: Monday - Friday, 8:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. (must be flexible). No travel required. Sign-on bonus and relocation assistance eligible.

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.

Urgent Heart Failure Clinic Registered Nurse Job Responsibilities:

• Facilitates the daily operations of the APP-led clinic by providing same-day or next-day evaluations and executing established protocols for outpatient IV bolus diuretics to stabilize volume-overloaded patients and prevent hospitalization
• Works closely with heart failure cardiologists, APPs, and pharmacists to design and deploy individualized treatment plans while providing comprehensive patient and family education regarding medications and care goals
• Utilizes an integrated, collaborative approach to achieve desired outcomes, serving as a vital resource and mentor to the healthcare team while demonstrating strong leadership in decision-making and problem-solving
• Conducts all patient care in a patient and family centered manner, integrating knowledge, skills and experiences to meet the needs of patients and families throughout the continuum of care
• Accesses resources from all disciplines to achieve desired patient outcomes and coordinates healthcare and alternate services for patient/family transition planning
• Makes clinical decisions based on experience, patient population data and intuition while promoting the development of clinical decision making of all team members
• Assists staff to assess patients' learning needs and outcomes measurement of patient education
• Provides direction and guidance to others regarding practice while serving as a clinical resource, preceptor, and mentor and delegates patient care activities and coordinates unit activities as needed
• 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

Minimum Qualifications:

• Experience: A minimum of 1 year of Registered Nurse clinical experience.
• Education: BSN or ADN - If ADN then complete BSN within 5 years of start date
• Certification: BLS for Healthcare Provider Certification from the American Heart Association required
• License: RN licensed, and eligible to practice in the Commonwealth of Virginia.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience: Telemetry, ICU, CVICU, IMC - step down; heart failure experience is a plus.
• Skills: Proficiency in IV starts and assessment of volume-overloaded cardiac patients.