Registered Nurse (RN) - Infectious Disease/Traveler's Clinic

Are you a passionate and proactive nurse ready to make a real difference in the field of infectious disease? At UVA Health, we believe in empowering our nurses by providing them with the autonomy to lead, strong leadership support, and a collaborative, inclusive environment where your expertise truly matters.

As a Registered Nurse Care Coordinator, you’ll play a pivotal role in guiding patients through their healthcare journey, ensuring they receive comprehensive, evidence-based treatment for a wide variety of infectious diseases. You’ll have the opportunity to collaborate with a multidisciplinary team to address patient barriers, such as social determinants of health, while delivering the highest standard of care. Working alongside leading specialists, fellow nurses, and other experts, you’ll gain the privilege of collaborating with team members who have extensive knowledge and expertise in HIV and other infectious diseases.

The infectious disease clinic offers a wide range of services, including primary care, specialty care, and certain health department services, allowing you to contribute to diverse, impactful care. You’ll have the freedom to use your clinical judgment and leadership skills to make decisions that directly affect patient care and outcomes.

At UVA Health, you’ll find a culture that not only supports your professional growth but encourages you to innovate and contribute to groundbreaking advancements in infectious disease care. We offer a nurturing environment where you can develop both personally and professionally, with access to the mentorship and resources you need to thrive.

If you're looking for a role where you can lead, collaborate, and make a lasting impact in a supportive, progressive team, we’d love to hear from you. Apply today and join us in transforming the future of infectious disease care at UVA Health.

Capable clinician, focused on expanding knowledge and skills. Consistently provides effective direct care, as part of the interdisciplinary team, to a variety of complex patients. Manages care and implements treatment plans at a refined skill level in collaboration with patients, their families, physicians, and other members of the health care team. Seeks as well as provides feedback for improved clinical practice. Assumes a beginning leadership role but seeks mentoring in this process.

This job description integrates the AAACN Scope and Standards of Practice for Professional Ambulatory Care Nursing, the ANA Nursing: Scope and Standards of Practice, and the ANA Code of Ethics for Nurses with Interpretive Statements, with the UVA Nursing Professional Practice Model.

ANA Scope and Standards of Practice definition of nursing: Nursing is the protection, promotion, and optimization of health and abilities, prevention of illness and injury, facilitation of healing, alleviation of suffering through the diagnosis and treatment of human response, and advocacy in the care of individuals, families, groups, communities and populations.

• Relationship Based Care - Self and Colleagues: reflects the influence of the nurse's relationship with self, colleagues, and patient/family on the patient's experience.
• Relationship Based Care - Patients and Families: reflects the influence of the nurse's relationship with self, colleagues, and patient/family on the patient's 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, and 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 the 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.

Position Compensation Range: $37.51 - $49.82 Hourly

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) Healthcare 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 is an equal opportunity employer. All interested persons are encouraged to apply, including veterans and individuals with disabilities. Click here to read more about UVA’s commitment to non-discrimination and equal opportunity employment.