Registered Nurse
INOVA HEALTH CARE SYSTEM
03.2021 - Current
- Cardiac/Surgical Telemetry
- Performs comprehensive assessments by interpreting multiple, sometimes conflicting, data sets and synthesizing their interrelationships
- Formulates individualized plans of care based on assessment findings and interpreting trends in patient populations to achieve best practice
- Supports and empowers patients/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 while acting as a resource to resolve issues
- Anticipates ethical, spiritual and cultural needs while intervening to maximize patient outcomes
- Coordinates healthcare and alternate services for patient/family transition planning
- Makes clinical decisions based on experience, patient population data and intuition while promoting the development of clinical decision making of all team members
- Documents all patient care activities, as per documentation standards, and assists healthcare team members with documentation
- Evaluates the outcomes of documentation and contributes to performance improvement initiatives related to documentation
- Provides validation of clinical decisions for other staff members and seeks validation from others for complex patients or unfamiliar situations.
