Director, Nursing, Progressive Care Unit


Job Identification: 673608
Posting Date: 09/27/2025, 05:58 PM
Job Schedule: Full time
Locations:

Job Description:
Inova Fair Oaks Hospital is seeking an experienced front-line leader to manage our 36-bed Progressive Care Unit.

The Progressive Care Director oversees assigned units to ensure they are performing effectively, which may include but not limited to, preparing and implementing business strategy to achieve the organization's goals, ensuring legal compliance, communicating and collaborating with stakeholders, managing employment decisions and contributions of supporting team members, and managing departmental budget and fiscal success. Serves as a primary liaison and information resource for assigned unit. Oversees the provision of therapeutic care in a holistic and evidence-based environment, which produces excellent patient care with optimal patient outcomes.

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.

Nursing at Inova Fair Oaks Hospital

Job Responsibilities:

• Ensures use of guidelines, standards and evidence-based practice in care delivery, producing quality patient outcomes and a safe patient environment.
• Serves as a physician liaison and primary information resource/contact for the unit. Ensures compliance with the unit plan for physician satisfaction.
• Maintains and monitors budgetary standards and utilizes resources effectively and appropriately.
• Monitors patient/physician satisfaction and seeks ways to improve by ensuring continuous implementation of evidence-based practices to include, but not limited to, discharge phone calls, leadership rounding (patients, physicians and internal customers), AIDET and HML conversations

Director, Nursing, PCU Minimum Requirements:

• 1 year of leadership experience (leadership experience may include RN Unit Supervisor Role, dedicated charge nurse or Assistant Nurse Manager or equivalent role)
• 2 years of acute care nursing experience
• Education - Bachelors Degree in Nursing
• Licensed in the Commonwealth of Virginia as a Registered Nurse
• Certification - Basic Life Support upon start; Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support upon start required for Critical Care and Procedural areas, PALS upon start for Pediatric Units, and NRP upon start for NICUs

Preferred Qualifications:

• Masters degree
• Experience mentoring and developing teams

About Us:
We are Inova, Northern Virginia's leading nonprofit healthcare provider. Every day, our 26,000+ 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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