Clinical Nurse-Med-Surge-Spine Center-8C-Mount Sinai Hospital-PT/Days

Mount Sinai Health System•New York, NY

9d•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. Care is based on nursing theory and research and follows Mount Sinai’s Relationship Centered Care professional practice model, the nursing process, evidence-based practice, and approved organizational standards. The nurse assesses patient needs, applies critical thinking and clinical skills, and collaborates with the interdisciplinary healthcare team to develop, implement, and evaluate plans of care. The role includes patient and caregiver education, care coordination and discharge planning, effective communication, resource management, and documentation that complies with hospital, regulatory, and legal requirements. The Clinical Nurse also supports quality and safety initiatives, patient experience practices, and patient throughput, and may perform charge nurse duties as assigned.

Requirements

Graduation from an accredited nursing program.
A Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing (BSN), or an Associate’s Degree in Nursing (ADN) with the RN matriculated in a BSN program and expected to graduate within the year. An ADN 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 Support (BCLS) certification from the American Heart Association.

Responsibilities

Deliver patient care using the Relationship Centered Care model, the nursing process, evidence-based practice, and organizational nursing standards.
Assess and evaluate patient care needs and apply critical thinking and relevant clinical skills in care management.
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 the plan of care, care transitions, health promotion, and disease prevention, while considering readiness to learn.
Communicate effectively and 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, HELP, AM/PM care, five-minute sit-downs, 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 therapeutic relationships with patients and families.
Use evidence-based practices to understand patient perceptions of care, initiate service recovery when needed, and escalate concerns appropriately.
Conduct purposeful hourly rounding on assigned patients, addressing the four Ps.
Provide safe, efficient, patient-centered care; identify and escalate barriers, improvement opportunities, safety hazards, and gaps from best practice.
Apply clinical skills and knowledge relevant to the patient population and implement process-improvement strategies based on institutional and evidence-based procedures.
Participate in peer and institutional review processes and collaborate on quality-improvement projects, evidence-based practice activities, and nursing research studies.
Contribute to quality, safety, and compliance practices and apply high-reliability principles to reduce risk.
Document nursing practice using institutional information technology to support quality and performance improvement initiatives.
Perform charge nurse duties as assigned.
Coordinate with nursing leadership to ensure appropriate supply utilization and adequate inventory; 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 during the shift.