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As a Registered Nurse for Inova Health System’s Loudoun Nursing and Rehabilitation Center (ILNRC), you will communicate effectively and work cooperatively with others while having respect for and an understanding of other clinical disciplines. To help achieve our mission, you will use an integrated approach toward achieving desired patient outcomes while ensuring improvements in practice settings by assuming responsibility for self-development in lifelong learning. Providing direction and guidance to others regarding practice while serving as a resource, preceptor and mentor is of vital importance. Providing knowledgeable/caring clinical practice and care coordination through an understanding of patients, families, nurses and healthcare delivery teams is required. Your ability to serve as an empowering body to influence patient empowerment and to influence successful outcomes of financial and clinical quality, through relationships and access based knowledge, is essential.
Job Responsibilities
- Demonstrates effective communication skills and assists in the resolution of conflict among healthcare team members, patients and families.
- Collaborates with the multidisciplinary team and incorporates their expertise to achieve desired patient outcomes.
- Keeps informed of unit initiatives. Incorporates the outcomes of team or committee work into practice.
- Delegates patient care activities and coordinates unit activities.
- Assists staff with assessing patients’ learning needs and outcomes measurement of patient education.
- Accesses resources from all disciplines to achieve desired patient outcomes.
- Demonstrates a willingness to give 100 percent and assist others voluntarily.
- Works with the team to achieve maximum productivity.
- Ensures improvements in practice settings by assuming responsibility for self-development in lifelong learning.
- Provides direction and guidance to others regarding practice.
- Demonstrates role model and leadership behaviors consistently.
- 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 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 Team Member Continuing Education Record.
- Performs comprehensive assessments by interpreting multiple, sometimes conflicting, data sets and synthesizing their interrelationships.
- Formulates individualized plans of care based on assessment findings. Interprets trends in patient populations to achieve best practice.
- Supports/empowers patients/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.
- Counsels and acts as a resource to resolve issues.
- Anticipates ethical, spiritual and cultural needs of patients while intervening to maximize patient outcomes.
- Coordinates healthcare and alternate services for patient/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, per documentation standards, and assists healthcare team members with documentation.
- Evaluates the outcomes of documentation and contributes to related performance improvement initiatives.
- Provides validation of clinical decisions for other staff members. Seeks validation from others for complex patients or unfamiliar situations.
- Collaborates with the interdisciplinary team and leads other disciplines to meet desired outcomes.
- Mentors staff in understanding and advocating for the importance of utilizing relationship based care initiatives in nursing practice.
- Evaluates processes to achieve desired outcomes.
- Anticipates patient variances and makes revisions to plans of care.
- Participates in quality improvement initiatives. Incorporates gerontological findings into nursing practice.
- Utilizes standards, guidelines and pathways for care delivery.
Additional Requirements
As a recipient of federal financial assistance, Inova Health System (“Inova”) does not exclude, deny benefits to, or otherwise discriminate against any person on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, disability, or age in admission to, participation in, or receipt of the services or benefits under any of its programs or activities, whether carried out by Inova directly or through a contractor or any other entity with which Inova arranges to carry out its programs and activities.
This policy is in accordance with the provisions of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the Age Discrimination Act of 1975, Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act, and regulations of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services issued pursuant to these statutes at 45 C.F.R. Parts 80, 84, 91 and 92, respectively.
