STAFF - SUPERVISOR REGISTERED NURSE (RN) - FLOAT PEDIATRICS - $36-54 PER HOUR

Inova Health System is seeking a Registered Nurse (RN) Float Pediatrics Supervisor for a nursing job in Burke, Virginia.

Job Description & Requirements

• Specialty : Pediatrics
• Discipline : RN
• Duration : Ongoing
• Shift : days
• Employment Type : Staff

At Inova Fair Oaks Hospital Inova Values serve as our guide to providing outstanding, quality care to you and your family : Patient Always, Our People, One Team, Integrity and Excellence.

Job Description : The Registered Nurse (RN) Unit Supervisor serves as a front line leader who is accountable for delivering highly reliable results related to quality and best practices to improve the clinical operations of the unit.

Embraces, uses and understands the research behind nursing practice and quality tools. Supports unit based shared governance and decentralized decision making structures and processes.

Acts as a role model who leads by example in delivering Service Always and in making patient experience a priority on units of responsibility.

Seeks every opportunity to meet the unique needs of each person Inova Health System is privileged to serve every time, every touch.

Serves as an engaged team member who is empowered to support Inova's People Priority by providing genuine acts of care, appreciation, recognition, coaching, mentoring and encouragement to all members of the healthcare team, in order to further enculturate Inova's care delivery model and results for all of Inova's strategic priorities.

Shift : Day

Hours : 28 hours per week

Job Responsibilities :

• Conducts high quality shift huddles by communicating strategic priorities related to target, actual and gap barriers in addition to small tests of change, results of rounding, challenges, celebrations and other matters
• Conducts effective safety huddles and conducts or appropriately delegates all environmental and safety rounding and conducts and ensures that Patient, Medical Director and RN rounding is completed for areas of responsibility
• Rounds on staff continually and serves to remove or escalate barriers to providing quality care while enhancing staff engagement
• Reviews core measures, key performance indicators and other metrics relevant to unit / patient populations and participates in the analysis of unit based service outcomes as well as development of action plans that lead to systematic improvements in outcomes
• Participates in emergency and safety preparedness drills / trainings as required
• Participates in simulation labs and Operating Room safety stand-downs
• Ensures adherence to The Joint Commission standards that are relevant to areas of responsibility and ensures that team members are knowledgeable of related standards
• Contributes to professional decision making to support and / or implement unit based quality improvement work and strategic outcomes
• Serves as role model to others in communication to patients, identifying concerns, diffusing potentially difficult situations and facilitating resolution
• Serves as a Physician Liaison and primary information resource / contact for unit(s) of responsibility
• Collaborates with a multidisciplinary healthcare team to ensure that discharge needs are in place to provide smooth transition of patient flow
• Accurately assesses current state while forecasting staffing / supply needs and working to proactively resolve staffing discrepancies
• Contributes to the completion of annual evaluations as delegated by unit leadership, participates in the disciplinary process for team members, when applicable, by providing necessary input to performance deficiencies and participates in the interview and hiring process for new team members
• Provides individual coaching and counseling to clinical staff on critical processes, standards and problem solving, communicates expectations effectively and advocates for and supports the clinical staff and promotes an environment of mutual trust
• May perform additional duties as assigned

Additional Requirements

• VA RN License
• Experience : One year of RN nursing experience
• Education : BSN from an accredited school of nursing. If RN has an Associates Degree (ADN); must complete BSN within 24 months of start date.
• BLS from American Heart Association upon start date

Inova Job ID #661469. Posted job title : rn unit supervisor women's & children's float pool