Clinical Nurse-Med-Surge-Ortho-8E-Mount Sinai Hospital-FT/Nights

Mount Sinai Health System•New York, NY

5d•Onsite

About The Position

The Clinical Nurse is a Registered Professional Nurse who provides safe, competent, quality care based on nursing theory and research to a designated group of patients and significant others. The role delivers patient-centered nursing care using the nursing process, evidence-based practice, and organizational standards, while collaborating with the interdisciplinary healthcare team and educating patients and caregivers. The Clinical Nurse works within the Care Delivery Model of Modified Primary Nursing and contributes to patient experience, quality and safety, unit operations, and professional development.

Requirements

Graduation from an accredited nursing program.
Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing (BSN), or an Associate’s Degree in Nursing (ADN) with matriculation in a BSN program and an expected graduation date within one year. An ADN-prepared RN with nursing experience requires 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 from the American Heart Association.

Responsibilities

Deliver patient care using Relationship Centered Care principles, the nursing process, research, evidence-based practice, and approved organizational nursing standards.
Assess and evaluate patient care needs, apply critical thinking, and integrate relevant assessment and intervention skills into nursing care.
Collaborate with the interdisciplinary healthcare team to develop, implement, and evaluate the plan of care.
Prioritize patient care activities, including teaching, rounding, coaching, discharge planning, and delegation as appropriate.
Educate patients and caregivers about plans of care, transitions of care, health promotion, and disease prevention.
Communicate professionally and effectively with patients, families, and members of the interdisciplinary patient care team.
Manage assignments within the Modified Primary Nursing care delivery model and allocate material resources effectively.
Model Mount Sinai Relationship Centered Care practices, including admission welcomes, bedside shift reports, purposeful hourly rounding, medication review, discharge wrap-up, and unit collaboration.
Consider patients’ values, preferences, expressed needs, and knowledge in all aspects of care; establish and maintain therapeutic relationships with patients and families.
Initiate service recovery when patients or family members have concerns and escalate issues as needed.
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 relevant to quality and safety for the patient population served; participate in review, quality improvement, evidence-based practice, and nursing research activities.
Document nursing practice using institutional information technology and comply with hospital, regulatory, legal, and care standards.
Perform charge nurse duties as assigned and coordinate supply use and inventory with unit leadership.
Escalate material or staffing resource deficits and use equipment, staff, supplies, and other resources in a patient-focused and cost-effective manner.
Facilitate patient throughput on a shift basis.
Support colleagues, patients, families, and the healthcare team; maintain professional conduct and incorporate ethical principles into decision-making.
Advance clinical competence, pursue lifelong learning and innovation, and acquire knowledge and skills relevant to the role, specialty, patient population, and community needs.
Participate in shared decision-making through practice councils, nursing department committees, and unit initiatives.
Serve as a professional role model and preceptor for new staff and students; contribute as a charge nurse, patient throughput facilitator, and unit resource person.
Promote and articulate the value of research and evidence-based practice and participate in professional nursing organizations.