Registered Nurse - Acute Dialysis, Days

NYU Langone Health • Mineola, NY

12d • Onsite

About The Position

NYU Langone Hospital—Long Island is a 591-bed university-affiliated medical center offering sophisticated diagnostic and therapeutic care across numerous medical and surgical specialties. As a major regional healthcare resource, we are deeply committed to medical education and research, providing a comprehensive range of inpatient and outpatient services. At NYU Langone Health, equity and inclusion are core values, fostering an environment where talented faculty, staff, and students of all identities can thrive. We value individual skills, ideas, and knowledge. This role involves carrying out patient care responsibilities with an emphasis on decision-making within the nursing process, including assessment, diagnosis, planning, implementation, and evaluation. The successful candidate will provide competent, safe, and compassionate care aligned with established NYU WUH Patient Care and Nursing Standards. As part of an interdisciplinary healthcare team, you will collaborate with providers to develop and implement comprehensive, patient-centered care plans, utilizing principles of assignment and delegation in accordance with the NY State Nurse Practice Act.

Requirements

• Bachelors degree in Nursing from an accredited institution required for employees hired after 9/1/2020 (those who hired prior to 9/1/2020 are grandfathered).
• Current Registered Professional Nurse in New York.
• BLS through the American Heart Association.
• Fluent written and spoken English language skills.
• Qualified candidates must be able to effectively communicate with all levels of the organization.

Nice To Haves

• CDN/ CNN preferred
• telemetry experience
• Acute Care hospital experience
• ACLS within 6 months needed.

Responsibilities

• Performs other duties as assigned.
• Collects, assesses and documents patient healthcare data.
• Directs the patient/family and interdisciplinary team to identify a plan of care and outcomes that are realistic and measurable.
• Prioritize care based upon data collected.
• Documents assessment and reassessment in medical records.
• Directs the coordination of patient care in a safe, timely and appropriate manner.
• Applies and supports the escalation process.
• Considers needs and behaviors of specific patient age groups and cultural groups in all patient care activities.
• Documents interventions per hospital standard.
• Educates the patient/family regarding health status and established plan of care.
• Determines learning needs of the patient/family.
• Implements an educational plan.
• Collaborates with the interdisciplinary team to modify expected outcomes.
• Documents learning outcomes of patient/family; evaluates and revises education plan. (Include utilization of EHR education tools)
• Evaluates the patient's progress towards expected outcomes.
• Involves the patient/family and interdisciplinary team in the evaluation process.
• Recognizes changes in patient condition and responds to variations in patient's progress by modifying the interventions.
• Reports, documents and evaluates the effectiveness of the intervention(s).
• Coordinates and directs unit activities to provide patient care in a healing, humane and caring environment.
• Analyzes achievement of and contributes to unit throughput efficiencies and metrics. (Include unit throughput measures e.g. DBN, door to triage, assign to occupy, first case starts, room turnover)
• Complies with unit based and organizations professional standards, New York State Nurse Practice Act and regulations of relevant outside agencies, e.g., NY State Department of Health, The Joint Commission, regulatory requirements etc.
• Organizes staff assignments to ensure appropriate delegation of activities.
• Demonstrates ability to differentiate those activities which are in scope of professional nursing practice, and those that may be delegated to ancillary staff.
• Complies with annual education and mandatory/regulatory requirements (Include learning transcript and supportive documentation).
• Serves as a support, resource and preceptor for nursing staff and students.
• Engages in self-assessment and peer review; utilizes resources to meet individual learning needs and promote professional development in clinical practice.
• Adheres to patient care and nursing standards in care delivery, and uses clinical practice guidelines (CPG).
• Participates in standard development and practice evaluation.
• Contributes to and utilizes the unit practice council (UPC) structure to critically appraise and influence practice (Include supportive evidence).
• Analyzes unit level quality data and participates in improvement efforts to achieve organizational goals within the quality and safety performance improvement plan, (QSPIP) and outperform benchmarks in nurse sensitive quality indicators (Include unit based quality measures e.g. HAPU, CAUTI, CLABSI, Falls).
• On Call 3-5 days per month

Benefits

• comprehensive benefits and wellness package
• financial security benefits
• generous time-off program
• employee resources groups for peer support
• holistic employee wellness program (physical, mental, nutritional, sleep, social, financial, and preventive care)

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level