Registered Nurse- Ambulatory Surgery Center, Part-time, Days

NYU Langone Health • Mineola, NY

220d • $61 - $87

About The Position

NYU Langone Hospital—Long Island is a 591-bed university-affiliated medical center, which offers sophisticated diagnostic and therapeutic care in virtually every specialty and subspecialty of medicine and surgery. We are a major regional healthcare resource with a deep commitment to medical education and research, offering a full complement of inpatient and outpatient services. At NYU Langone Health, equity and inclusion are fundamental values. We strive to be a place where our exceptionally talented faculty, staff, and students of all identities can thrive. We embrace inclusion and individual skills, ideas, and knowledge. We have an exciting opportunity to join our team as a Registered Nurse- Ambulatory Surgery Center, Part-time, Days. In this role, the successful candidate carries out patient care responsibilities with emphasis on decision-making related to the steps in the nursing process to include assessment, diagnosis, identification of expected outcomes, planning, implementation and evaluation. Provides competent, safe and compassionate care based on established NYU WUH Patient Care and Nursing Standards.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Nursing 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.

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.
• 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.
• Complies with unit based and organizations professional standards, New York State Nurse Practice Act and regulations of relevant outside agencies.
• 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.
• 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 need and promote professional development in clinical practice.
• Adheres to patient care and nursing standards in care delivery, and uses clinical practice guidelines.
• Participates in standard development and practice evaluation.
• Contributes to and utilizes the unit practice council structure to critically appraise and influence practice.
• Analyzes unit level quality data and participates in improvement efforts to achieve organizational goals within the quality and safety performance improvement plan.

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits and wellness package.
• Access to financial security benefits.
• Generous time-off program.
• Employee resources groups for peer support.
• Holistic employee wellness program focusing on physical, mental, nutritional, sleep, social, financial, and preventive care.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Part-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Industry: Hospitals
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree