Registered Nurse RN Operating Room Specialist

The Cardiovascular Operating Room (CVOR) at Inova Fairfax is hiring an experienced OR Nurse who is looking to specialize in Cardiovascular Surgery! Seeking an eager and dedicated OR Nurse who is looking to be trained to support 7 CVORs, for adult and pediatric surgery. Our Program is the 9th busiest heart transplant program in the country as of January 2023 and performed a total of 100 transplants (heart and lung) in our cardiac ORs in 2022. We are also in the top 2% in the country for TAVR volume.

The CVOR is located on the Inova Fairfax Medical Campus within the Inova Heart and Vascular Institute (IHVI) for adult cardiac surgery and Inova Women's and Children's Hospital for pediatric/congenital cardiac surgery. The CVORs are state of the art with Stryker integrated video and a Philips (Single Plane) Hybrid OR with a total of 7 operating rooms serving all cardiac surgery needs including thoracic organ transplant (heart and lung), mechanical circulatory support, structural heart, congenital, and advanced aortic surgery.
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.
Education:

BSN or AD; if RN has an AD, must complete BSN within 5 years of start date.
Experience:

Minimum 1 year of direct Operating Room (OR) experience as a Registered Nurse. Preferred experience, 2+ years of diverse OR experience- including Vascular, Robotics, Orthopedics, and Neurosurgery.
Licensure:

Licensed in the Commonwealth of Virginia as a Registered Nurse.
Certification:

Basic Life Support with American Heart Association.
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 revises 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:

Full time, 3/13 hr. shifts or 4/10 hr. shifts- day shift hours. Must be available to take call and rotate weekends, holidays and off-shifts.