Night Shift Registered Nurse Unit Supervisor - Medical/Surgical

Inova Health; Falls Church (VA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Sign-on bonus

Relocation assistance

Medical, dental and vision coverage

Retirement plan match

Tuition and student loan assistance

Mental health support

Work/Life balance paid time off

Job summary

Inova Fairfax Medical Campus in Falls Church, VA is seeking a RN Unit Supervisor for the Medical/Surgical Unit. This full-time night position offers a sign-on bonus and relocation assistance eligible.

The RN Unit Supervisor serves as frontline leader to uphold high-quality patient care and efficient unit operations. Requires at least one year of RN experience and a BSN; ADN holders may qualify if within one year of completing their BSN.

Qualifications

• At least one year of Registered Nurse clinical experience required.
• BSN required; ADN considered if completed within one year.

Responsibilities

• Conducts high quality shift huddles by communicating priorities, gaps and changes.
• Leads safety/environmental rounds and ensures appropriate RN/medical rounding.
• Rounds on staff to remove barriers and enhance engagement with patient care.
• Reviews unit metrics and contributes to action plans for quality improvements.
• Participates in emergency drills, safety trainings and simulation labs.
• Ensures adherence to Joint Commission standards and professional practice.
• Provides coaching and mentoring to clinical staff and helps with performance feedback.
• Assists in hiring and conducts evaluations as delegated by unit leadership.
• Acts as a liaison for physicians and coordinates discharge planning and patient flow.

Education

BSN

Associate Degree RN (ADN) acceptable if within one year of completing BSN

Job description

Inova Fairfax Medical Campus is seeking a RN Unit Supervisor to join our Medical/Surgical Unit. This role will be Full Time, Nights. Sign-on bonus and relocation assistance eligible.

Work schedule: 12 hour nights (7pm - 7am)

Inova Fairfax Hospital is proud to be recognized as one of the top 10 Major Teaching Hospitals in the U.S. We maintain accolades for high-quality patient care and safety, recognized by top ranking in U.S. News & World Report for the past four years. We're also included in the 2024 Fortune/PINC AI 100 Top Hospitals.

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.

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.

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 escalation 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 assess 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

Requirements

• Experience: At least one year of Registered Nurse Clinical experience;
• Education : BSN; open to Associate Degree RNs but must be within one year of completing their BSN