Registered Nurse; RN Patient Care Navigator - Outpatient 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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

• 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.