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

Mount Sinai Health System•New York, NY

10d•$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 their significant others. The nurse delivers care using the nursing process, evidence-based practice, and approved organizational standards, and collaborates with the interdisciplinary healthcare team to develop, implement, and evaluate plans of care. The role includes patient education, care coordination, purposeful rounding, therapeutic communication, safe resource management, and accurate documentation. The Clinical Nurse supports Mount Sinai Relationship Centered Care, contributes to quality and safety initiatives, facilitates patient throughput, and may 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 current matriculation in a BSN program and expected graduation 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 Support (BCLS) certification issued by the American Heart Association.

Nice To Haves

NRP certification for Labor and Delivery or NICU departments.
ACLS certification for designated departments and units, including ED, PACU/ASU, ICUs, Telemetry, SDU, IR, Interventional Cardiology, L&D, Endoscopy, and APN Adult Oncology.
PALS certification for designated departments, including ED, PACU, Endoscopy, IR, Pediatric ICU, and APN Pediatric Oncology.

Responsibilities

Deliver patient care using the professional practice model of Relationship Centered Care and the nursing process, incorporating theory, research, evidence-based practice, and 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, including teaching, rounding, coaching, discharge planning, and delegation as appropriate.
Educate patients and caregivers about plans of care, care transitions, health promotion, and disease prevention, taking account of their needs and 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 allocate material resources effectively.
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 MD/RN unit collaboration.
Consider patients’ values, preferences, expressed needs, and knowledge in all aspects of care; establish and maintain therapeutic relationships with patients and families.
Use evidence-based practices to understand patients’ perceptions of care and initiate service recovery, escalating concerns as needed.
Demonstrate caring, respect, compassion, empathy, and active listening; conduct purposeful hourly rounding on assigned patients addressing the 4 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 and safety practices and compliance measures, applying high-reliability principles to avoid high-risk behaviors.
Document nursing practice using institutional information technology to support quality and performance improvement, and comply with hospital, regulatory, legal, and care standards.
Perform charge nurse duties as assigned.
Coordinate supply use and inventory sufficiency with nursing leadership, and escalate material or staffing resource deficits.
Use equipment, staffing, supplies, and other resources in a patient-focused and cost-effective manner.
Facilitate patient throughput on a shift basis.