Registered Nurse (RN) - Emergency Department & ED Specialty Areas Job Listing at University of Virginia Health System in Charlottesville, VA (Job ID 3969249-2024-10-08)

Description

$25,000 sign on bonus for a 3 year employment commitment! Relocation assistance may be available. Please contact Allyson Monahan at ezw3qk@ for more information.

Virginia?s #1 hospital* is staffing up. We invite you to get in on the ground floor and join our award–winning team in the Emergency Department!

* U.S. News & World Report?s 2016–2017, 2017–2018 and 2018–2019 ?Best Hospitals? guides, Newsweek's 2023 "Best Hospitals in VA" guide.

The University of Virginia Emergency Department presents an exciting growth opportunity. Come be part of a collaborative interdisciplinary care team envisioning and developing the future of Emergency Medicine at UVA. The Emergency Department at UVA is a Level 1 Trauma Center and Regional Referral Center. The Emergency Department currently has three adult trauma bays and one pediatric trauma bay. Our ED also houses a Comprehensive Stroke Center. With specialties such as Neurosciences, Specialized Heart and Vascular Center, and Transplant offered twenty–four hours a day, we are able to provide care to patients from all over the state and adjoining states.

Please complete this one RN application where you will identify the areas and shifts you are interested in within the Emergency Department. We are currently seeking:

• Emergency Department Staff Registered Nurses
• Emergency Department Behavioral Health Registered Nurses
• Pediatric Emergency Department Registered Nurses
• Emergency Department Observation Nurses

We are seeking a capable clinician, focused on expanding knowledge and skills who will:

• Consistently provides effective direct care, as part of the interdisciplinary team, to a variety of complex patients.
• Manage care and implement treatment plans at a refined skill level in collaboration with patients, their families, physicians and other members of the health care team.
• Seek as well as provide feedback for improved clinical practice.
• Assume a beginning leadership role but seeks mentoring in this process.

More Information:

This job description integrates the ANA 2015 Nursing: Scope and Standards of Practice, Third Edition and the ANA Code of Ethics for Nurses with Interpretive Statements (ANA, 2015), and the UVA Nursing Professional Practice Model.

• Relationship Based Care – Self and Colleagues: reflects the influence of the nurse?s relationship with self, colleagues and patient/family on the patient experience.
• Relationship Based Care – Patients and Families: reflects the influence of the nurse?s relationship with self, colleagues and patient/family on the patient experience.
• Expert Caring: encompasses clinical assessment, planning, prioritizing, coordinating and implementation of care.
• Empowered Leaders: demonstrate knowledge of and actively participate in shared governance.
• Lifelong Learners: encompasses professional development through formal education, professional certification, internal and external learning opportunities and recognizes the value of external professional organizations. Supports onboarding of new team members and precepts as applicable.
• Quality Achievement: includes adherence to clinical documentation guidelines, comprehension of outcomes data, engagement in performance improvement activities and commitment to standard work.
• Innovation: is demonstrated by application of technologies that support patient care, actively seeking to implement evidence based practice and new knowledge generated by nursing research.
• In addition to the above job responsibilities, other duties may be assigned.

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS

Education: Graduate of an accredited nursing program required. Bachelor of Science in Nursing required within 5 years of hire.
Experience: 1 year of relevant experience.
Licensure: Licensed to Practice as a Registered Nurse in the Commonwealth of Virginia. American Heart Association (AHA) Health Care Provider BLS certification required.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

Job requires standing for prolonged periods, frequently traveling, bending/stooping. Proficient communicative, auditory and visual skills; Attention to detail and ability to write legibly; Ability to lift/push/pull 20 – 50lbs. May be exposed to chemicals, blood/body fluids and infectious disease.

The University of Virginia, including the UVA Health System which represents the UVA Medical Center, Schools of Medicine and Nursing, UVA Physician?s Group and the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library, are fundamentally committed to the diversity of our faculty and staff. We believe diversity is excellence expressing itself through every person's perspectives and lived experiences. We are equal opportunity and affirmative action employers. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, color, disability, gender identity or expression, marital status, national or ethnic origin, political affiliation, race, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, veteran or military status, and family medical or genetic information.