Nursing-Registered | Job Family Group

These roles are responsible for guiding patients through the healthcare system, helping them understand their treatment plans, and coordinating care across multiple providers. Care navigators ensure that patients receive timely care and have access to resources that support their treatment journey.

These roles are responsible for coordinating and managing patient care plans, especially for those with complex health needs. Case managers work closely with healthcare providers, patients, and families to ensure efficient care delivery, optimize resource utilization, and promote positive health outcomes.

These roles are responsible for providing specialized nursing care in the cardiac catheterization lab. Cath Lab RNs assist in diagnostic and interventional procedures related to cardiovascular care, monitor patients during procedures, and ensure post-procedural recovery and education.

These roles are responsible for delivering nursing care to patients in their homes. Home care nurses manage chronic conditions, provide post-surgical care, administer medications, and educate patients and families on managing health conditions at home, promoting independence and recovery.

These roles are responsible for providing comprehensive nursing care to patients admitted to the hospital. Inpatient RNs monitor patient conditions, administer medications, assist in treatments, and collaborate with the healthcare team to ensure high-quality care in various hospital units.

These roles are responsible for providing perioperative care to patients undergoing surgery in the main operating room. OR nurses prepare patients for surgery, assist surgeons during procedures, and manage post-operative recovery, ensuring patient safety and comfort throughout the surgical process.

These roles are responsible for providing comprehensive nursing care to patients admitted to the hospital. Inpatient RNs monitor patient conditions, administer medications, assist in treatments, and collaborate with the healthcare team to ensure high-quality care in various hospital units.  Family for RN Pool Nurses only.

These positions are responsible for promoting high-quality patient care, ensuring appropriate resource utilization, and supporting clinical excellence through data-driven decision-making. These roles focus on monitoring clinical outcomes, analyzing healthcare utilization patterns, implementing quality improvement initiatives, and ensuring compliance with regulatory standards and evidence-based practices.

These roles are responsible for developing, implementing, and evaluating educational programs that enhance the clinical knowledge, skills, and professional development of nursing staff, students, and other healthcare team members. These roles support continuous learning to ensure high-quality patient care, adherence to clinical standards, and compliance with regulatory requirements.

These roles are responsible for integrating nursing science, information technology, and data management to improve patient care, clinical workflows, and healthcare outcomes. These roles focus on the design, implementation, optimization, and evaluation of health information systems to support clinical decision-making, documentation, and evidence-based practice.

These roles are responsible for conducting research to improve patient care, healthcare practices, and clinical outcomes. These roles focus on designing, implementing, analyzing, and disseminating research studies that explore various aspects of nursing practice, patient safety, healthcare delivery, and evidence-based interventions.

These roles are responsible for providing nursing care in outpatient or clinic settings. Outpatient RNs assist with routine examinations, manage chronic diseases, administer medications, and educate patients on self-care practices, supporting overall patient health in a non-hospital setting.

These roles are responsible for caring for patients before, during, and after organ transplantation. Transplant RNs coordinate care, provide education about the transplant process, monitor for complications, and ensure patients adhere to post-transplant care regimens to promote successful outcomes.

These roles are responsible for providing nursing care across various settings and specialties. Nurses and leaders in this category may rotate between departments or take on diverse duties, offering flexible and adaptive care based on the needs of patients and the institution.

A career stream is a category in the Career Journeys Job Framework that describes the general type of responsibilities a position has. It reflects the nature of the work—such as professional, clinical, operational, managerial, or executive—and helps clarify the kind of contribution the role makes to the University. Career streams, combined with job families, help employees understand how their work fits into the organization and identify potential paths for growth, whether within the same stream or by moving to another.

Career Streams in Career Journeys Job Framework Include:

• Professional
• Management
• Operations and Service 
• Clinical Professional
• Clinical Technician 
• Senior Administrator
• Executive
• Athletics
   

Yes — you can move from one career stream to another if your job responsibilities change and align with the new stream.

For example, someone in the Operations and Service stream could move into the Professional stream by gaining the necessary education, training, or experience, or into the Management stream by taking on people-leadership responsibilities. Career streams aren’t fixed for life—they’re a way of describing your current role, not limiting your future opportunities

No — you don’t have to become a manager to reach the top of your career stream.

In Career Journeys, each stream has its own progression path. For example, in the Professional or Clinical Professional streams, you can advance in roles in a higher "level" that carry significant increases in influence, responsibility, and compensation without managing people.

Management is just one type of career stream, not the “top” of all streams. You can build a high-level career without shifting into people leadership—unless that’s the direction you want to go.

Levels reflect the typical knowledge, skills, and experience needed for roles at that stage. Within a career stream, several different jobs may share the same level, and not every level will always have an active position in every stream.

The differences between career levels are determined based on the scope/complexity of the position. Specifically, this means the jobs within a job family will differ in level based on duty and responsibility differences between profiles.  Factors include the nature and scope of influence, the level of autonomy the position has to make decisions at various levels of impact, the nature of communication and audience, supervisory responsibilities and number/type of teams, and the level of expertise needed to fulfill position responsibilities. 

Yes — you can move to a different job family group or job family if you apply for and are selected for a position in that area.

For example:

• You might move from the Information Technology job family group into Finance if you gain relevant skills or education and are hired into a finance role.

• Or you could shift from the Digital Media job family to Graphic Design within the Communications job family group if your work focus changes.

It’s not an automatic change — it happens when your role and responsibilities align with the requirements of the new job family group or job family, and you successfully secure that position through UVA’s traditional hiring process.

If most of a position’s responsibilities fall within one functional area, the position is assigned to the matching job family group or job family. If the work is more evenly spread across different areas, the job family group or job family is chosen based on which set of duties would be most important to highlight when recruiting for the role.

• Business Title is how you present your role day-to-day.
• Job Profile is how UVA classifies your role within the Job Framework for consistency and career planning.

Faculty and student positions are not included in the Career Journeys Job Framework. However, they still receive a unique job profile and can use Career Journeys to explore jobs that are part of the framework.

Other positions not included are: Classified Staff, Temporary Employees, Professional Research Staff, Graduate Research Assistants (GRAs), Graduate Teaching Assistants (GTAs), Student Workers, Residents and House Staff, UVA Physicians Group, and UVA Community Health.

To be classified in the management stream, a job’s main focus needs to be leading people. In most cases, this means supervising at least two team members and overseeing a distinct department as a core part of the role.

We welcome all employees to take some time to explore the Career Journeys Job Framework and get familiar with its key concepts before requesting more information or changes to their job profile. For example, it is good to know that your job profile title may not always match the business title you use every day, and supervising one employee does not automatically place a role in the management stream before reaching out.

You can learn more about your job profile and how it relates to other roles by reviewing the Job Framework resources on this page and on the training webpage. If, after doing so, you’d still like to know more about your classification, please email askhr@virginia.edu with a brief description of your questions and any relevant details. Our HR team will review your message and connect you with the right person to guide you through the next steps for understanding—or, if appropriate, reevaluating—your job profile.

If you have more questions, there are plenty of resources to help. Your manager is a great first stop, and you can also email HR for assistance. If your questions are about your personal career path, consider scheduling a meeting with Career Navigation.

Explore your Career Journeys details and jobs in your Job Family

Whether you want to learn how to use the Dashboard or navigate the Job Directory, create a new Job Requisition, or understand how Career Journeys affects specific operations in your area, this page serves as your go-to guide.

Ready to explore your path?