Clinical Nurse-Med-Surge-SpineCenter-8C-Mount Sinai Hospital-PT/Nights

Mount Sinai Health Systems•New York, NY

17h•$65 - $65•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 position serves patients in the Med-Surge Spine Center at Mount Sinai Hospital and is designated part-time, nights. The nurse delivers patient-centered care using the nursing process, evidence-based practices, and organizational nursing standards. The role includes assessing patient needs, collaborating with the interdisciplinary healthcare team, educating patients and caregivers, coordinating transitions of care, maintaining therapeutic relationships, supporting patient experience, contributing to quality and safety initiatives, documenting care, managing resources, and facilitating patient throughput. Charge nurse duties may be 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; ADN 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 American Heart Association.
NRP certification for Labor and Delivery or NICU departments.
ACLS certification for the listed applicable departments, including ED, PACU/ASU, ICUs, Telemetry Units, SDU, IR, Interventional Cardiology, L&D, Endoscopy, and APN Adult Oncology.
PALS certification for the listed applicable departments, including ED, PACU, Endoscopy, IR, Peds ICU, and APNs in Pediatric Oncology departments.

Responsibilities

Deliver patient care using Relationship Centered Care principles, the nursing process, evidence-based practices, and approved organizational standards.
Assess and evaluate patient care needs and apply critical thinking and relevant 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 plans of care, transitions, health promotion, and disease prevention, taking readiness to learn into account.
Communicate professionally 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.
Role-model Mount Sinai Relationship Centered Care practices, including admission welcome, bedside shift report, HELP, AM/PM care, purposeful hourly rounding, medication review, discharge wrap-up, and physician/nurse collaboration.
Consider patients’ values, preferences, expressed needs, and knowledge in all aspects of care.
Establish and maintain therapeutic relationships with patients and families, demonstrating caring, respect, compassion, empathy, and active listening.
Use evidence-based practices to understand patients’ perceptions of care and support staff in doing so.
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, safety hazards, and opportunities for improvement.
Apply clinical skills and knowledge relevant to quality and safety in the patient population served.
Implement process improvement strategies and contribute to compliance, quality improvement, evidence-based practice, and nursing research activities.
Participate in formal and informal peer and institutional review processes.
Apply high-reliability principles to identify and avoid high-risk behaviors and maintain a safe patient environment.
Document nursing practice using institutional information technology to support quality and performance improvement initiatives.
Perform charge nurse duties as assigned.
Coordinate supply utilization and inventory needs with clinical 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 compliance with hospital, regulatory, and legal requirements and standards of care.
Facilitate patient throughput on a shift basis.