Lead Registered Nurse (RN) - Outpatient Med Surg
Clinic And Schar Cancer
Fairfax, VA
Days

We are currently seeking a skilled and compassionate Registered Nurse (RN) to lead our AFib team. As the RN Lead, you will play a pivotal role in overseeing the delivery of care within the AFib Center, ensuring that patients receive personalized treatment plans tailored to their unique needs. You will collaborate closely with a diverse team of healthcare professionals to achieve our four key treatment goals:
1. Managing Risk Factors: Implementing strategies to address and mitigate AFib risk factors, such as hypertension, diabetes, and lifestyle factors.
2. Preventing Stroke: Coordinating with clinicians to optimize anticoagulation therapy and other interventions aimed at reducing the risk of stroke in AFib patients.
3. Controlling Heart Rate: Monitoring and adjusting medication regimens to achieve optimal heart rate control and improve patient comfort and quality of life.
4. Controlling Heart Rhythm: Working closely with cardiologists and electrophysiologists to assess and manage heart rhythm abnormalities through medication management, cardioversion, and other interventions.
Schedule: Monday - Friday 8:00 am to 5:00 pm. No weekends or holidays.
The Lead Outpatient Registered Nurse assists management in the development and implementation of strategic policies and procedures. Serves as a clinical expert and a team leader for all clinical staff in the Outpatient environment while communicating effectively and working cooperatively with others. Respects and understands other clinical disciplines while using an integrated approach toward achieving desired patient outcomes. Ensures improvements in practice settings by assuming responsibility for self-development in lifelong learning and providing direction and guidance to others regarding practice. Serves as a resource, preceptor and mentor while demonstrating leadership skills in decision making and problem solving.

Job Responsibilities

- Stays current on Outpatient best practices to act as a resource to team members and to provide training to improve team member competency and enhance level of service
- Provides oversight of daily clinical operations, workflow, productivity and training to Outpatient clinical team members and updates management regarding any issues in the Outpatient setting
- Communicates effectively and works cooperatively with healthcare team members, patients and families to maximize patient outcomes and to ensure patients are processed proficiently and expediently
- Tailors and prioritizes caring practice to individual needs including cultural, ethical and spiritual needs
- Delegates patient care activities appropriately to other healthcare team members and participates in making and revising staff assignments
- Integrates education during the delivery of patient care and advocates actively for patients' rights and identifies potential conflicts
- Makes independent clinical decisions based on knowledge drawn from education and experience and adapts standards and guidelines for individual patients
- Evaluates patient outcomes and makes revisions in plans of care. Documents all patient care activities according to documentation standards
- Participates in the planning of routine transitional healthcare needs (i.e. treatment options, patient placement options and end of life options)
- Acts as a clinical resource and serves as a mentor to healthcare team members
- Demonstrates evidence of a minimum of 20 hours of self-development activities with a minimum of six formal contact hours beyond orientation and fellowship programs and maintains own Team Member Continuing Education Record
- Performs essential duties necessary to clinic or non-acute operations to include taking vitals, stocking exam rooms, giving vaccines, drawing blood, etc.
- Provides review of charts to ensure nursing triage protocols are followed
- Participates in quality improvement initiatives and reviews and shares any performance deficiencies with management
- May perform additional duties as assigned

Requirements

Certification - Basic Life Support
Licensure - Licensed Registered Nurse in the Commonwealth of Virginia
Experience - 3 years of experience in Nursing
Education - Bachelor's Degree in Nursing

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