Registered Nurse (RN) Patient Care Navigator - Outpatient Urgent Heart Failure

Inova Fairfax Hospital is looking for a dedicated Registered Nurse (RN) Patient Care Navigator to join the Outpatient Advanced Heart Failure team, specifically supporting the Urgent Heart Failure Clinic to help with outpatient IV diuretics for volume-overloaded heart failure patients. This role will be full-time, day shift: Monday - Friday, 8:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. (must be flexible).

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.

Registered Nurse (RN) Patient Care Navigator Job Responsibilities:

• Facilitates the daily operations of the APP-led Urgent Heart Failure Clinic, providing patients with same-day or next-day evaluations and lab assessments.
• Executes the established protocol for outpatient IV bolus diuretics for volume-overloaded heart failure patients, effectively stabilizing patients in a clinic setting to prevent hospitalization.
• Works closely with heart failure cardiologists, APPs, and pharmacists to design and deploy individualized treatment plans.
• Guides patient and family through the health system from diagnosis, testing, treatment and follow-up care to assist patients with navigating the continuum of care.
• Coordinates a patient's plan of care which may include appointment scheduling, confirming patient's attendance, transportation, assisting with referral process, and answering patient questions.
• Acts as a liaison, advocate and point of contact to patients in need of services such as screening, diagnostic treatment, clinical research participation, support services, and follow-up/aftercare plan by helping them access the best healthcare outcomes from doctors, hospitals and others who provide their required services.
• Assists patients and families with resolving financial, psychosocial, functional, and administrative issues by advising of options and referring to appropriate resources.
• Manages complex cases effectively and efficiently. Collaborates with multidisciplinary teams to address patient questions and responses about the care process and treatment options.
• Participates in obtaining quality outcomes such as decreasing emergency room visits, decreasing patient readmission rates and/or transition times.
• Develops/maintains reliable systems to document, track and monitor patient data.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Education: Bachelors Degree in Nursing
• Experience: 3 years of nursing experience
• Certification: Licensed in the Commonwealth of Virginia as a Registered Nurse; Basic Life Support from the American Heart Association

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience: Telemetry, ICU, CVICU, IMC - step down; heart failure experience is a plus.
• Skills: Proficiency in IV starts and assessment of volume-overloaded cardiac patients.