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Falls Church, Virginia

Registered Nurse (RN) Patient Care Navigator - Transplant Infectious Diseases

Registered Nurse 8.0 Work-LifeNo weekendsNo nightsFull-Time

Listed compensation

$92,934 - $151,483/year

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Employment & setting
Full-Time · on-site
Call expectations
Not specified
Weekends
No weekends
Posted 1mo ago

Job Description

Inova Fairfax Hospital is looking for a dedicated Registered Nurse (RN) Patient Care Navigator to join the Transplant Infectious Disease team. This role will be full-time, day shift: Monday – Friday, 8:00 a. m. – 4:30 p. m. (must be flexible). Will require rotation between inpatient and outpatient care at Inova Fairfax Hospital and the Inova Center for Personalized Health, located near Inova Fairfax Hospital.

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.

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, & flexible work schedules.
  • Registered Nurse (RN) Patient Care Navigator - Transplant Infectious Disease Job Responsibilities:

Travel involved: rotation between inpatient and outpatient care at Inova Fairfax Hospital and the Inova Center for Personalized Health, located near Inova Fairfax Hospital.

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 with the Transplant Infectious Disease team which may include diagnostic test coordination and specialty medicine coordination and scheduling, patient education and knowledge assessment for complex treatment regimens.

Assists patients and families with accessing treatment resources by advising of options and engaging 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 patient infection and readmission rates.
  • Develops/maintains reliable systems to document, track and monitor patient data.
  • Performs other duties as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications

  • 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

Preferred Qualifications

Experience: Telemetry, Transplant, Infectious Diseases

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 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.

Qualifications

Education
Bachelor degree
Experience
2+ years of experience

Certifications

BLS

Key Skills

Patient Care NavigationCare CoordinationCase ManagementClinical DocumentationMultidisciplinary CollaborationInpatient CareTransplant CareInfectious Disease Management

Work-Life Balance Analysis

WeekdayDoc's proprietary algorithm rates Registered Nurse (RN) Patient Care Navigator - Transplant Infectious Diseases at Inova a 8.0 out of 10 for work-life balance — classified as excellent. This places the position in the top 5% in Registered Nurse roles — ranked against 5,396 active Registered Nurse roles listings on WeekdayDoc. Contributing factors include no weekend requirements, no night shifts.

Infectious Disease — Registered Nurse Career Context

Of the 40 active Registered Nurse listings this role was benchmarked against, 48% are remote, 55% have no call, 83% require no weekends.

The cost-of-living index for Virginia is 101.1 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)), so the posted ~$122k midpoint carries the purchasing power of roughly $121k in an average-cost state. 61.1% of Virginia clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).

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401k / retirement match
91%
CME allowance
35%
Sign-on bonus
22%
Loan repayment
22% this job

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Work-life snapshot

8.0/ 10
Listing-based score

Top 5% in Registered Nurse roles

  • No weekends
  • No nights
  • On-site

Living in Falls Church

Typical 3-bedroom home value
$781k
Typical market rent
$2,574/mo
Residents’ average commute
29 min
Metro price indexU.S. average = 100
108.9
State income tax
Up to 5.8%
Sources & methodology

Sources: Zillow home values (Aug 2026), Zillow market rents (Aug 2026), U.S. Census ACS 2024 five-year.

BEA 2024 · Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV metro prices. Housing figures are city-level.

City-level figures. Not a cost-of-living guarantee.

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Benefits & Perks

Medical, dental, vision coverage
Team member wellness program
Retirement: Inova matches first 5% of eligible contributions
Tuition assistance up to $5,250 per year
Student loan assistance up to $10,000
25 mental health coaching or therapy sessions per year at no cost
Paid time off
Paid parental leave