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

Mount Sinai Health System•New York, NY

4d•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 role delivers patient-centered nursing care through Mount Sinai’s Relationship Centered Care model and the nursing process, and collaborates with the interdisciplinary healthcare team to plan, deliver, and evaluate care. The nurse supports a positive patient experience through therapeutic relationships, purposeful rounding, clear communication, patient and caregiver education, and service recovery. The role also contributes to quality and safety initiatives, accurate clinical documentation, effective use of resources, patient throughput, and professional development. The position is in the NYSNA-MSH collective bargaining unit.

Requirements

Graduation from an accredited nursing program.
Bachelor’s degree in Nursing (BSN), or an Associate’s degree in Nursing (ADN) with current matriculation in a BSN program and an expected graduation date within one year.
An ADN-prepared RN with nursing experience requires approval by the CNO.
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 licensure and registration.
Basic Life Saver (BCLS) certification issued by the American Heart Association.

Responsibilities

Deliver patient care using the professional practice model of Relationship Centered Care, the nursing process, evidence-based practice, and approved organizational nursing standards.
Assess and evaluate patient care needs, apply critical thinking, and integrate relevant assessment and intervention skills.
Collaborate with the interdisciplinary healthcare team to develop, implement, and evaluate plans of care.
Prioritize patient care, including teaching, rounding, coaching, discharge planning, and appropriate delegation.
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 use material resources effectively.
Model Mount Sinai Relationship Centered Care practices, including admission welcome, bedside shift report, AM/PM care, 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, 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, safety hazards, and opportunities for improvement.
Apply clinical skills and knowledge, institutional processes, evidence-based practices, and high-reliability principles to support quality and safety.
Collaborate on quality improvement projects, evidence-based practice activities, and nursing research studies, and participate in review and compliance processes.
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 nursing 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 the care environment for clinical colleagues, patients, families, and healthcare team members.
Advance clinical competence and acquire knowledge and skills relevant to the role, patient population, specialty, and community health needs.
Model professionalism, ethical decision-making, caring, respect, compassion, empathy, scholarship, inquiry, lifelong learning, and innovation.
Participate in shared decision-making through specialty practice councils, nursing department committees, and unit initiatives.
Serve as a professional role model and preceptor for new staff and students, and act as a clinical leader, throughput facilitator, and unit resource.
Promote the application of research and evidence-based practice in nursing and participate in professional organizations.