Clinical Nurse-Med-Surge-GI-Stepdown-10E-Mount Sinai Hospital-PT/Nights

Mount Sinai Health Systems•New York, NY

1d•$65 - $65•Onsite

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, based on nursing theory and research. The position delivers patient-centered care through the nursing process, evidence-based practice, and Mount Sinai’s Relationship Centered Care model. The nurse assesses and manages patient needs, collaborates with the interdisciplinary care team, educates patients and caregivers, and supports safe transitions of care. The nurse promotes a positive patient experience, maintains therapeutic relationships, conducts purposeful hourly rounding, and responds to patient or family concerns. The role supports quality and safety initiatives, accurate clinical documentation, efficient use of resources, and patient throughput. It also contributes to professional development, shared decision-making, nursing research and evidence-based practice, and may serve as a preceptor or perform charge nurse duties as assigned.

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 issued by the American Heart Association.

Responsibilities

Deliver patient care using the nursing process, professional practice standards, research, and evidence-based practice.
Assess and evaluate patient care needs and apply critical thinking and relevant nursing interventions.
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.
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, and discharge wrap-up.
Consider patients’ values, preferences, expressed needs, and knowledge in all aspects of care.
Establish therapeutic relationships and use evidence-based practices to understand patients’ perceptions of care.
Initiate service recovery and escalate patient or family concerns to appropriate clinical leaders or Patient Relations.
Conduct purposeful hourly rounding on assigned patients, addressing the 4 Ps.
Identify and escalate safety barriers, hazards, and opportunities for improvement; support compliance with quality and safety requirements.
Participate in process improvement, peer and institutional review, quality improvement projects, evidence-based practice activities, and nursing research.
Document nursing practice accurately and thoroughly in compliance with hospital, regulatory, and legal requirements.
Perform charge nurse duties as assigned and help ensure supplies and staffing resources are sufficient for patient care.
Use patient-focused, cost-effective approaches to equipment, staffing, supplies, and other resources.
Facilitate patient throughput during the shift.
Support colleagues, patients, families, and healthcare team members; advance clinical competence and maintain professional conduct.
Participate in shared decision-making through specialty councils, nursing committees, and unit initiatives.
Serve as a professional role model and preceptor for new staff and students.
Contribute to nursing through professional organizations and promote scholarship, lifelong learning, innovation, research, and evidence-based practice.