Per Diem – Day – Clinical Nurse – Renal Treatment Center – Mount Sinai Hospital – 12:30PM – 10:30PM

Mount Sinai Health System • New York, NY

9h • Onsite

About The Position

The per diem Clinical Nurse is a Registered Professional Nurse who provides safe, competent, quality care to a designated group of patients and their significant others, based on nursing theory and research. The role delivers patient-centered care using the nursing process, evidence-based practice, and Mount Sinai’s Relationship Centered Care model. The nurse collaborates with the interdisciplinary team, supports patient and family education, contributes to quality and safety initiatives, documents care, and participates in professional development. The position is in the Renal Treatment Center at Mount Sinai Hospital and lists hours of 12:30 PM–10:30 PM.

Requirements

• Graduation from an accredited nursing program.
• Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN), or an Associate Degree in Nursing (ADN) with current matriculation in a BSN program and an expected graduation date within one year.
• An ADN-prepared RN with nursing experience requires approval by the Chief Nursing Officer.
• Relevant clinical competence in the assigned area of nursing practice; new graduates must have current knowledge of the nursing process and its application.
• Current New York State Registered Nurse license and registration.
• Basic Life Support (BLS) certification issued by the American Heart Association.

Nice To Haves

• ACLS certification for roles in the listed areas: ED, PACU/ASU, ICUs, Telemetry Units, SDU, IR, Interventional Cardiology (CCL/EP/Echo), L&D, Endoscopy, and APN Adult Oncology.

Responsibilities

• Deliver patient care in accordance with the professional practice model of Relationship Centered Care, the nursing process, research, evidence-based practice, and organizational nursing standards.
• Assess and evaluate patient care needs and apply critical thinking and appropriate assessment and intervention skills.
• Collaborate with the interdisciplinary healthcare team to develop, implement, and evaluate plans of care.
• Prioritize patient care, including teaching, rounding, coaching, discharge planning, and appropriate delegation.
• Educate patients and caregivers about care plans, transitions of care, health promotion, and disease prevention.
• Communicate professionally with patients, families, and members of the interdisciplinary care team.
• Manage assignments within the Modified Primary Nursing care delivery model and use material resources effectively.
• Model Mount Sinai Relationship Centered Care practices, including admission welcome, bedside shift report, purposeful hourly rounding, medication review, discharge wrap-up, and unit collaboration.
• Establish therapeutic relationships with patients and families and use evidence-based practices to understand patients’ perceptions of care.
• Initiate service recovery when patients or families have concerns and escalate issues as needed.
• Demonstrate caring, respect, compassion, empathy, and active listening.
• Conduct purposeful hourly rounding on assigned patients, addressing the 4 Ps.
• Provide safe, efficient, patient-centered care; identify and escalate barriers, improvement opportunities, safety hazards, and gaps from best practice.
• Apply clinical knowledge and skills, institutional procedures, high-reliability principles, and process-improvement strategies to support quality and safety.
• Participate in peer and institutional reviews, quality-improvement projects, evidence-based practice activities, and nursing research studies.
• Meet required quality, safety, compliance, and documentation standards, using institutional information technology to document nursing practice.
• Perform charge nurse duties as assigned.
• Coordinate supply use and inventory with clinical and nursing leadership, and escalate material or staffing resource deficits.
• Use equipment, staffing, supplies, and other resources in a patient-focused and cost-effective manner.
• Document accurately and thoroughly in accordance with hospital, regulatory, and legal requirements and standards of care.
• Support the care environment for clinical colleagues, patients, families, and the healthcare team.
• Advance clinical competence and maintain knowledge and skills relevant to the role, patient population, specialty, and community needs.
• Model professional conduct and incorporate ethical principles into decisions for patients and families.
• Promote scholarship, inquiry, lifelong learning, and innovation; participate in shared decision-making, specialty councils, committees, and unit initiatives.
• Serve as a professional role model and preceptor for new staff and students, and contribute as a charge nurse, patient throughput facilitator, and unit resource.
• Explain the value of research and evidence-based practice and contribute to the nursing profession through participation in professional organizations.

What This Job Offers