Clinical Nurse-GI-Med-Surge-Stepdown-9E-Mount Sinai Hospital-FT/Nights
About The Position
The Clinical Nurse is a Registered Professional Nurse who provides safe, competent, quality care to a designated group of patients and their significant others. The role applies nursing theory, research, evidence-based practice, and approved organizational nursing standards within Mount Sinai’s Relationship Centered Care model and Modified Primary Nursing care delivery model. The position is based in the GI-Medical-Surgical-Stepdown unit at Mount Sinai Hospital and is listed as full-time nights. The Clinical Nurse assesses and manages patient care needs, collaborates with interdisciplinary teams, educates patients and caregivers, and supports a positive patient experience. The role also contributes to quality and safety initiatives, operational coordination, accurate documentation, professional development, shared decision-making, and the education and support of colleagues and students.
Requirements
- Graduation from an accredited nursing program.
- Bachelor’s degree in Nursing (BSN), or an Associate’s Degree in Nursing (ADN) with enrollment in a BSN program and expected graduation within one year. ADN-prepared RNs with nursing experience require CNO approval.
- 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 Saver (BCLS) certification issued by the AHA.
- ACLS certification is required for specified departments, including telemetry and stepdown units, among others.
Responsibilities
- Deliver patient care using Relationship Centered Care principles, the nursing process, evidence-based practice, research, and organizational standards.
- Assess and evaluate patient care needs and apply critical thinking and relevant clinical assessment and intervention skills.
- Collaborate with the interdisciplinary healthcare team to develop, implement, and evaluate plans of care.
- Prioritize patient care activities, including teaching, rounding, coaching, discharge planning, and appropriate delegation.
- Educate patients and caregivers about care plans, transitions of care, health promotion, and disease prevention, while considering readiness to learn.
- Communicate effectively and professionally with patients, families, and interdisciplinary team members.
- 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 MD/RN collaboration.
- Consider patients’ values, preferences, expressed needs, and knowledge in all aspects of care; establish therapeutic relationships with patients and families.
- Use evidence-based practices to understand patients’ perceptions of care and initiate service recovery when concerns arise, escalating as needed.
- Demonstrate caring, respect, compassion, empathy, active listening, and purposeful hourly rounding 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 required compliance measures to support quality and safety.
- Participate in peer and institutional review and collaborate on quality improvement projects, evidence-based practice activities, and nursing research studies.
- Document nursing practice accurately and thoroughly using institutional information technology and in compliance with hospital, regulatory, and legal requirements.
- Perform charge nurse duties as assigned and coordinate supplies and inventory with unit leadership.
- Escalate material or staffing resource deficits and use equipment, staff, supplies, and other resources in a patient-focused, cost-effective manner.
- Facilitate patient throughput during the shift.
- Support the care environment for colleagues, patients, families, and the healthcare team, and advance clinical competence through ongoing learning.
- Apply ethical principles in decision-making and participate in shared governance, specialty practice councils, nursing committees, and unit initiatives.
- Serve as a professional role model and preceptor for new staff and students, and act as a charge nurse, throughput facilitator, and unit resource person as appropriate.
- Promote scholarship, inquiry, lifelong learning, innovation, and the application of research and evidence-based practice to nursing.
- Participate in professional nursing organizations.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
