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Registered Nurse Cardiac Rehab

Employer
Inova Health System
Location
Alexandria, VA
Closing date
Dec 4, 2021

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Industry
Healthcare
Function
Nurse
Hours
Full Time
Career Level
Experienced (Non-Manager)
Inova Alexandria Hospital has an opportunity available for a PRN Registered Nurse to work in our Cardiac Rehabilitation Program. Mon - Fri and every other weekend consisting of 8 and 12 hour shifts. Ideal candidates should have CARDIOVASCULAR NURSING experience with a passion for patient education regarding behavior change and familiarity with ECG rhythm identification. Cardiac Rehab is an outpatient lifestyle management program for individuals recovering from a recent cardiac event. All Inova Cardiac Rehab programs are certified and align with AACVPR guidelines and practice initiatives. Candidates should be comfortable working collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team of nurses, exercise physiologists, registered dietitians and behavioral health providers. Our cardiac rehab programs are active environments and require standing/movement and some lifting throughout the day.Inova Alexandria Hospital is a 318-bed community hospital that offers a full range of healthcare services and has received national recognition for healthcare excellence. From babies to seniors, Inova Alexandria Hospital Provides World-Class Medical Care. We are dedicated to continually expanding our programs and services to help ensure we meet the healthcare needs of the communities we serve today and in the future.Provides knowledgeable and caring clinical practice and care coordination through an understanding of patient, family, nurse, and healthcare delivery team. Consistently provides safe, therapeutic care in a holistic and systematic way. Incorporates differences into the provision of care. Conducts all patient care in a patient and family-centered manner. Integrates knowledge, skills, and experiences to meet the needs of patients and families throughout the continuum, to include patient and family education. Communicates effectively and works cooperatively with others. Has respect for and understanding of other clinical disciplines. Uses an integrated approach toward patient outcomes. Serves as an empowering body to influence patient empowerment, and successful outcomes of financial and clinical quality, through relationships and access-based knowledge. Utilizes standards, guidelines, and pathways for care delivery. Determines process for delivery of care from direct patient and family communication, technology, and other healthcare team member collaboration. Ensures improvements in practice settings by assuming responsibility for self-development in life-long learning. Provides direction and guidance to others regarding practice. Serves as a resource, preceptor, and mentor. Demonstrates leadership skills in decision making and problem solving.Job ResponsibilitiesClinical Practice & Care Coordination-The Inova Registered Nurse provides knowledgeable and caring clinical practice and care coordination through an understanding of patient, family, nurse and healthcare delivery team.Consistently provides safe, therapeutic care in a holistic and systematic way. Incorporates differences into the provision of care.All patient care and interactions are patient and family centered. Integrates knowledge, skills, and experiences to meet the needs of patients and families throughout the continuum to include patient and family education.Performs a comprehensive assessment by interpreting multiple, sometimes conflicting data and synthesizing the interrelationships of the data.Formulates an individualized plan of care based on assessment findings, interpreting trends in patient populations to achieve best practice.Supports and empowers patient/family as they progress through the healthcare continuum from health promotion to end of life decisions.Advocates patient rights from the patient/ family perspective; provides counsels and acts as a resource to resolve issues.Anticipates ethical/ spiritual/ cultural needs and intervenes to maximize patient outcomes. Coordinates health care and alternate services for patient/ family transition planning.Makes clinical decisions based on experience, patient population data, and intuition; promotes the development of clinical decision making of all team members.Documents all patient care activities as per documentation standards and assists healthcare team members with documentation.Evaluates the outcomes of documentation and contributes to performance improvement initiatives related to documentation.Provides validation of clinical decisions for other staff members; seeks validation from others for complex patients or unfamiliar situations.Collaborates with the health care team and leads other disciplines to meet desired outcomes. Mentors staff in understanding and advocating for the importance of utilizingRelationship-Based Care initiatives in nursing practice.Evaluates the process to achieve outcomes; anticipates patient variances and makes revisions to the plan of care.Communicates effectively and works cooperatively with others.Has respect for and understanding of other clinical disciplines.Uses an integrated approach toward patient outcomes.Demonstrates effective communication skills and assists in the resolution of conflict among health care team members, patients, and families.Collaborates with the multi-disciplinary team and incorporates the expertise of the team to achieve patient outcomes.Keeps informed of unit initiatives. Incorporates the outcomes of the team or committee work into practice.Delegates patient care activities and coordinates unit activities.Assists staff to assess the patient's learning needs and outcomes measurement of patient education.Accesses resources from all disciplines to achieve patient outcomes.Demonstrates willingness to give 100% and assists others voluntarily.Works with the team to achieve maximum productivity.Ensures improvements in practice settings by assuming responsibility for self-development in life-long learning.Provides direction and guidance to others regarding practice.Serves as a resource, preceptor, and mentor.Demonstrates leadership skills in decision making and problem solving.Demonstrates role model and leadership behaviors consistently.Acts as a clinical resource and serves as a mentor to health care 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 an educational plan for identified needs.Reviews self-development plan and professional goals.Seeks new knowledge toward the progression of professional goals.Demonstrates evidence of self-development by obtaining a minimum of six formal contact hours.Maintains own Employee Continuing Education Record.Professional Development-Ensures improvements in practice settings by assuming responsibility for self-development in life-long learning.Provides direction and guidance to others regarding practice, serves as a resource, preceptor, and mentor.Leadership skills demonstrated in decision making and problem solving.Consistently demonstrates role model & leadership behaviors; acts as a clinical resource and serves as a mentor to health care 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 an educational plan for identified needs.Reviews self-development plan and professional goals; seeks new knowledge toward the progression of professional goals.Demonstrates evidence of self-development by obtaining a minimum of 6 formal contact hours.Maintains own Employee Continuing Education Record.Provides knowledgeable and caring clinical practice and care coordination through an understanding of patient, family, nurse, and healthcare delivery team.Consistently provides safe, therapeutic care in a holistic and systematic way. Incorporates differences into the provision of care.Conducts all patient care in a patient and family-centered manner. Integrates knowledge, skills, and experiences to meet the needs of patients and families throughout the continuum, to include patient and family education.Performs a comprehensive assessment by interpreting multiple, sometimes conflicting data, and synthesizing the interrelationships of the data.Formulates an individualized plan of care based on assessment findings. Interprets trends in patient populations to achieve best practice.Supports and empowers the patient and family as they progress through the healthcare continuum from health promotion to end-of-life decisions.Advocates patient rights from the patient and family perspective.Counsels and acts as a resource to resolve issues.Anticipates ethical, spiritual, and cultural needs, intervening to maximize patient outcomes.Coordinates health care and alternate services for patient and family transition planning.Makes clinical decisions based on experience, patient population data, and intuition.Promotes clinical decision making development in all team members.Documents all patient care activities as per documentation standards and assists healthcare team members with documentation.Evaluates the outcomes of documentation and contributes to performance improvement initiatives related to documentation.Provides validation of clinical decisions for other staff members. Seeks validation from others for complex patients or unfamiliar situations.Collaborates with the health care team and leads other disciplines to meet desired outcomes. Mentors staff in understanding and advocating for the importance of utilizingQuality/Best Practice-Nursing 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.Utilizing standards, guidelines, and pathways for care delivery.The process for delivery of care is synthesized from direct patient/family communication, technology, and other healthcare team member collaboration.Participates in quality improvement initiatives. Incorporates research findings into nursing practice.Utilizes standards, guidelines, and pathways for care delivery.Serves as an empowering body to influence patient empowerment, and successful outcomes of financial and clinical quality, through relationships and access-based knowledge.Utilizes standards, guidelines, and pathways for care delivery.Determines process for delivery of care from direct patient and family communication, technology, and other healthcare team member collaboration.Participates in quality improvement initiatives. Incorporates research findings into nursing practice.Utilizes standards, guidelines, and pathways for care delivery.Teamwork-Communicates effectively and works cooperatively with others.Has respect for and understanding of other clinical disciplines.Uses an integrated approach toward patient outcomes.Demonstrates effective communication skills and assists in the resolution of conflict among health care team members, patients, and families.Collaborates with the multi-disciplinary team and incorporates the expertise of the multi-disciplinary team to achieve patient outcomes.Keeps informed of unit initiatives, and incorporates the outcomes of the team/committee work into practice.Delegates patient care activities and coordinates unit activities.Assists staff to assess the patients learning needs and outcomes measurement of patient education; accesses resources from all disciplines to achieve patient outcomes.Demonstrates willingness to give 100% and voluntarily assists others.Works with the team to achieve maximum productivity.Additional RequirementsAbility to work autonomously, Accredited School of nursing, Accredited School of nursing, BSN, Accredited School of nursing, Good assessment skills, Independent thinkingRecent nursing practice experience or prior medical office experience preferred.Minimum of 6 months of RN experience required; Prefer 1+ year of RN experienceBLS required BSN or ADN If RN has an ADN, within 6 months of start date the RN must meet with their nurse leader and * Identify which Accredited School the employee plans to attend * Submit a review of transcript from the school indicating the required pre-requisites and timeline for taking the courses * Provide a written plan with anticipated BSN completion date. * Complete BSN within 24 months of start dateStrong CVRN experience PreferrredInnovative Collaborative candidate with effective communication and patient education skills preferredinternal use only:IND1#LIInova Alexandria Hospital has an opportunity available for a PRN Registered Nurse to work in our Cardiac Rehabilitation Program. Mon - Fri and every other weekend consisting of 8 and 12 hour shifts. Ideal candidates should have CARDIOVASCULAR NURSING experience with a passion for patient education regarding behavior change and familiarity with ECG rhythm identification. Cardiac Rehab is an outpatient lifestyle management program for individuals recovering from a recent cardiac event. All Inova Cardiac Rehab programs are certified and align with AACVPR guidelines and practice initiatives. Candidates should be comfortable working collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team of nurses, exercise physiologists, registered dietitians and behavioral health providers. Our cardiac rehab programs are active environments and require standing/movement and some lifting throughout the day.Inova Alexandria Hospital is a 318-bed community hospital that offers a full range of healthcare services and has received national recognition for healthcare excellence. From babies to seniors, Inova Alexandria Hospital Provides World-Class Medical Care. We are dedicated to continually expanding our programs and services to help ensure we meet the healthcare needs of the communities we serve today and in the future.Provides knowledgeable and caring clinical practice and care coordination through an understanding of patient, family, nurse, and healthcare delivery team. Consistently provides safe, therapeutic care in a holistic and systematic way. Incorporates differences into the provision of care. Conducts all patient care in a patient and family-centered manner. Integrates knowledge, skills, and experiences to meet the needs of patients and families throughout the continuum, to include patient and family education. Communicates effectively and works cooperatively with others. Has respect for and understanding of other clinical disciplines. Uses an integrated approach toward patient outcomes. Serves as an empowering body to influence patient empowerment, and successful outcomes of financial and clinical quality, through relationships and access-based knowledge. Utilizes standards, guidelines, and pathways for care delivery. Determines process for delivery of care from direct patient and family communication, technology, and other healthcare team member collaboration. Ensures improvements in practice settings by assuming responsibility for self-development in life-long learning. Provides direction and guidance to others regarding practice. Serves as a resource, preceptor, and mentor. Demonstrates leadership skills in decision making and problem solving.Job ResponsibilitiesClinical Practice & Care Coordination-The Inova Registered Nurse provides knowledgeable and caring clinical practice and care coordination through an understanding of patient, family, nurse and healthcare delivery team.Consistently provides safe, therapeutic care in a holistic and systematic way. Incorporates differences into the provision of care.All patient care and interactions are patient and family centered. Integrates knowledge, skills, and experiences to meet the needs of patients and families throughout the continuum to include patient and family education.Performs a comprehensive assessment by interpreting multiple, sometimes conflicting data and synthesizing the interrelationships of the data.Formulates an individualized plan of care based on assessment findings, interpreting trends in patient populations to achieve best practice.Supports and empowers patient/family as they progress through the healthcare continuum from health promotion to end of life decisions.Advocates patient rights from the patient/ family perspective; provides counsels and acts as a resource to resolve issues.Anticipates ethical/ spiritual/ cultural needs and intervenes to maximize patient outcomes. Coordinates health care and alternate services for patient/ family transition planning.Makes clinical decisions based on experience, patient population data, and intuition; promotes the development of clinical decision making of all team members.Documents all patient care activities as per documentation standards and assists healthcare team members with documentation.Evaluates the outcomes of documentation and contributes to performance improvement initiatives related to documentation.Provides validation of clinical decisions for other staff members; seeks validation from others for complex patients or unfamiliar situations.Collaborates with the health care team and leads other disciplines to meet desired outcomes. Mentors staff in understanding and advocating for the importance of utilizingRelationship-Based Care initiatives in nursing practice.Evaluates the process to achieve outcomes; anticipates patient variances and makes revisions to the plan of care.Communicates effectively and works cooperatively with others.Has respect for and understanding of other clinical disciplines.Uses an integrated approach toward patient outcomes.Demonstrates effective communication skills and assists in the resolution of conflict among health care team members, patients, and families.Collaborates with the multi-disciplinary team and incorporates the expertise of the team to achieve patient outcomes.Keeps informed of unit initiatives. Incorporates the outcomes of the team or committee work into practice.Delegates patient care activities and coordinates unit activities.Assists staff to assess the patient's learning needs and outcomes measurement of patient education.Accesses resources from all disciplines to achieve patient outcomes.Demonstrates willingness to give 100% and assists others voluntarily.Works with the team to achieve maximum productivity.Ensures improvements in practice settings by assuming responsibility for self-development in life-long learning.Provides direction and guidance to others regarding practice.Serves as a resource, preceptor, and mentor.Demonstrates leadership skills in decision making and problem solving.Demonstrates role model and leadership behaviors consistently.Acts as a clinical resource and serves as a mentor to health care 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 an educational plan for identified needs.Reviews self-development plan and professional goals.Seeks new knowledge toward the progression of professional goals.Demonstrates evidence of self-development by obtaining a minimum of six formal contact hours.Maintains own Employee Continuing Education Record.Professional Development-Ensures improvements in practice settings by assuming responsibility for self-development in life-long learning.Provides direction and guidance to others regarding practice, serves as a resource, preceptor, and mentor.Leadership skills demonstrated in decision making and problem solving.Consistently demonstrates role model & leadership behaviors; acts as a clinical resource and serves as a mentor to health care 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 an educational plan for identified needs.Reviews self-development plan and professional goals; seeks new knowledge toward the progression of professional goals.Demonstrates evidence of self-development by obtaining a minimum of 6 formal contact hours.Maintains own Employee Continuing Education Record.Provides knowledgeable and caring clinical practice and care coordination through an understanding of patient, family, nurse, and healthcare delivery team.Consistently provides safe, therapeutic care in a holistic and systematic way. Incorporates differences into the provision of care.Conducts all patient care in a patient and family-centered manner. Integrates knowledge, skills, and experiences to meet the needs of patients and families throughout the continuum, to include patient and family education.Performs a comprehensive assessment by interpreting multiple, sometimes conflicting data, and synthesizing the interrelationships of the data.Formulates an individualized plan of care based on assessment findings. Interprets trends in patient populations to achieve best practice.Supports and empowers the patient and family as they progress through the healthcare continuum from health promotion to end-of-life decisions.Advocates patient rights from the patient and family perspective.Counsels and acts as a resource to resolve issues.Anticipates ethical, spiritual, and cultural needs, intervening to maximize patient outcomes.Coordinates health care and alternate services for patient and family transition planning.Makes clinical decisions based on experience, patient population data, and intuition.Promotes clinical decision making development in all team members.Documents all patient care activities as per documentation standards and assists healthcare team members with documentation.Evaluates the outcomes of documentation and contributes to performance improvement initiatives related to documentation.Provides validation of clinical decisions for other staff members. Seeks validation from others for complex patients or unfamiliar situations.Collaborates with the health care team and leads other disciplines to meet desired outcomes. Mentors staff in understanding and advocating for the importance of utilizingQuality/Best Practice-Nursing 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.Utilizing standards, guidelines, and pathways for care delivery.The process for delivery of care is synthesized from direct patient/family communication, technology, and other healthcare team member collaboration.Participates in quality improvement initiatives. Incorporates research findings into nursing practice.Utilizes standards, guidelines, and pathways for care delivery.Serves as an empowering body to influence patient empowerment, and successful outcomes of financial and clinical quality, through relationships and access-based knowledge.Utilizes standards, guidelines, and pathways for care delivery.Determines process for delivery of care from direct patient and family communication, technology, and other healthcare team member collaboration.Participates in quality improvement initiatives. Incorporates research findings into nursing practice.Utilizes standards, guidelines, and pathways for care delivery.Teamwork-Communicates effectively and works cooperatively with others.Has respect for and understanding of other clinical disciplines.Uses an integrated approach toward patient outcomes.Demonstrates effective communication skills and assists in the resolution of conflict among health care team members, patients, and families.Collaborates with the multi-disciplinary team and incorporates the expertise of the multi-disciplinary team to achieve patient outcomes.Keeps informed of unit initiatives, and incorporates the outcomes of the team/committee work into practice.Delegates patient care activities and coordinates unit activities.Assists staff to assess the patients learning needs and outcomes measurement of patient education; accesses resources from all disciplines to achieve patient outcomes.Demonstrates willingness to give 100% and voluntarily assists others.Works with the team to achieve maximum productivity.Additional RequirementsAbility to work autonomously, Accredited School of nursing, Accredited School of nursing, BSN, Accredited School of nursing, Good assessment skills, Independent thinkingRecent nursing practice experience or prior medical office experience preferred.Minimum of 6 months of RN experience required; Prefer 1+ year of RN experienceBLS required BSN or ADN If RN has an ADN, within 6 months of start date the RN must meet with their nurse leader and * Identify which Accredited School the employee plans to attend * Submit a review of transcript from the school indicating the required pre-requisites and timeline for taking the courses * Provide a written plan with anticipated BSN completion date. * Complete BSN within 24 months of start dateStrong CVRN experience PreferrredInnovative Collaborative candidate with effective communication and patient education skills preferredinternal use only:IND1#LI

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