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

Mount Sinai Health System•New York, NY

1d•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. This position serves the Med-Surge-GI-Stepdown 10E unit at Mount Sinai Hospital and is listed as part-time, nights. The nurse delivers patient-centered care using the nursing process, evidence-based practice, and Mount Sinai’s Relationship Centered Care model. The role includes assessing patient needs, collaborating with interdisciplinary teams, educating patients and caregivers, supporting a positive patient experience, promoting quality and safety, documenting care, coordinating resources and patient throughput, and contributing to professional development and unit initiatives.

Requirements

Graduation from an accredited nursing program.
A 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 licensure and registration.
Basic Life Saver (BCLS) certification from 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 nursing standards.
Assess and evaluate patient care needs and apply critical thinking and appropriate 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 delegation as appropriate.
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 welcomes, bedside shift reports, purposeful hourly rounding, medication review, discharge wrap-up, and unit collaboration.
Consider patient values, preferences, needs, and knowledge when delivering care, and establish therapeutic relationships with patients and families.
Use evidence-based practices to understand patient perceptions of care and initiate service recovery, escalating concerns as needed.
Conduct purposeful hourly rounding on assigned patients, addressing the 4 Ps.
Provide safe, efficient, patient-centered care; identify and escalate barriers, hazards, and opportunities for improvement.
Participate in quality improvement, evidence-based practice, nursing research, peer review, and compliance activities.
Use high-reliability principles and institutional information technology, including documentation that supports quality and performance improvement.
Perform charge nurse duties when assigned.
Coordinate supplies and inventory with nursing leadership, escalate material or staffing deficits, and use resources in a patient-focused and cost-effective manner.
Document care accurately and thoroughly in compliance with hospital, regulatory, and legal requirements and standards of care.
Facilitate patient throughput on a shift basis.
Support the care environment for colleagues, patients, families, and healthcare team members, and advance clinical competence through ongoing learning.
Incorporate ethical principles into decision-making and participate in shared decision-making through councils, committees, and unit initiatives.
Serve as a professional role model and preceptor for new staff and students, and contribute to nursing through professional organizations.