Regisgtered Nurse (RN) Perioperative Liaison


Job Identification: 673549
Posting Date: 09/20/2025, 09:42 PM
Job Schedule: Full time
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Job Description:
Inova Fairfax Hospital's Main Tower PACU is currently seeking a compassionate and experienced OR RN or PreOp/PACU Nurse for a full-time position as an RN Perioperative Liaison role. The schedule for this role is Monday-Friday 7.00am-3.30pm. This position plays a vital role in bridging communication between patients, families, and the multidisciplinary care team, ensuring a seamless and supportive perioperative experience.

This dynamic perianesthesia care unit serves a diverse surgical population, including ENT, general, colorectal, neurosurgery, orthopedic, plastics, thoracic, transplant, and urology patients. We care for individuals across the lifespan-from pediatrics to geriatrics, including Level I trauma cases.

Perioperative Liaison Role Overview

The RN Perioperative Liaison is a key communicator and advocate, ensuring optimal patient outcomes through integrated care coordination. This role requires a nurse who excels in interpersonal communication, builds trust with families, and fosters strong partnerships with physicians, nursing staff, and other healthcare professionals.

The Liaison serves as a resource, mentor, and leader-providing guidance, education, and emotional support throughout the perioperative continuum. The ideal candidate will demonstrate clinical expertise, empathy, and a proactive approach to problem-solving and decision-making

Perioperative Liaison Key Responsibilities

• Serve as a central point of contact for patients and families, providing timely updates, education, and emotional support before, during, and after surgery.
• Facilitate communication between surgical teams, nursing staff, and families to ensure clarity, continuity, and compassionate care.
• Collaborate closely with physicians, nurses, and allied health professionals to coordinate individualized care plans and anticipate patient needs.
• Conduct post-operative follow-up calls, documenting outcomes and communicating relevant information to the care team and leadership.
• Support safe transitions from the perioperative environment, ensuring discharge/admission criteria are met and patient/family expectations are addressed.
• Empower patients and families by providing clear information and guidance throughout the surgical experience.
• Mentor and support colleagues, contributing to a culture of excellence, teamwork, and continuous improvement
  
  

Inova 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, and flexible work schedules.

Perioperative Liaison Job Qualifications:

• One year of Preoperative and PACU and/or OR nursing experience
• Education - Bachelor's degree in nursing or Associate's degree. If RN has an Associate's degree, must complete BSN within 5 years of start date
• RN License to practice in the Commonwealth of Virginia
• BLS for Healthcare Provider certification via American Heart Association

Preferred qualifications:

• 2+ years experience in PreOp, PACU or OR nursing

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About Us:
We are Inova, Northern Virginia's leading nonprofit healthcare provider. Every day, our 25,000+ team members provide world-class healthcare to the communities we serve. Our people are the reason we're a national leader in healthcare safety, quality and patient experience. And from best-in-class facilities to professional development opportunities, we support them at every step. At Inova, we're constantly striving to be ever better - to shape a more compassionate future for healthcare.

Inova Health System is an Equal Opportunity employer. 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, pregnancy (including childbirth, pregnancy-related conditions and lactation), race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, veteran status, genetic information, or any other characteristics protected by law.


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