Registered Nurse - 4 NORTH MS

Garnet Health•Mechanicstown, NY

1d•Onsite

About The Position

The Registered Nurse on the 4 North MS team at Garnet Health Medical Center-Middletown provides patient-centered nursing care guided by the New York State Nurse Practice Act, the ANA Code of Ethics and nursing practice guidance, Jean Watson’s Nursing Philosophy and Science of Caring, and Garnet Health Medical Center’s nursing quality, safety, and strategic plans. Clinical nurses are empowered to provide safe, timely, effective, equitable, and patient-centered care. The role embraces professional nursing through caring relationships, attention to patients’ experiences and responses to health and illness, informed assessment and clinical judgment, evidence-based diagnosis and treatment, scholarly inquiry, and advocacy for safe, quality care. The position involves contact with patients in varied circumstances, responding to unpredictable situations and emergencies, and working collaboratively while managing competing priorities and interruptions. Nurses must follow patient and staff safety procedures, use required personal protective equipment, report hazards and errors, and participate in safety improvement activities. Work schedules may include irregular hours, nights, and weekends. The role’s hourly range is $56.58–$62.48; compensation may depend on factors such as location, specialty, relevant experience, education, credentials, and internal equity. The listed range excludes bonuses, incentive pay, differentials, and other compensation or benefits.

Requirements

Active New York State Nursing License in good standing.
Associate, bachelor’s, master’s, or doctoral degree in nursing from an accredited school of nursing.
Current BLS training; clinical nurses must keep this training current.
Ability to foster collaborative relationships, work well under pressure, organize and synthesize new information, prioritize tasks, and apply critical thinking and analytical skills.
Ability to multitask and maintain detailed attention in an environment with uncontrolled interruptions; sensitivity to customer needs and expectations.
Ability to meet the role’s physical demands, including considerable standing, walking, reaching, stooping, bending, kneeling, crouching, and visual demands; new hires must meet RN essential physical-functioning demands as determined by Employee Health/Pre-Screening Assessment.
Ability to perform essential responsibilities with or without reasonable accommodation.
Ability to work schedules that may include irregular hours, nights, and weekends.

Nice To Haves

Baccalaureate degree in nursing is preferred.
American Nurses Association-endorsed certification or Academy of Medical-Surgical Nurses certification is preferred, based on certification specialty hours-of-work requirements.
One year of medical-surgical experience is preferred.
ACLS is required within one year after the probationary period.
For 5 North, peritoneal dialysis training is required within six months of hire or transfer.

Responsibilities

Provide safe, timely, effective, equitable, patient-centered nursing care.
Establish caring relationships that facilitate health and healing, and attend to patients’ experiences and responses to health and illness.
Integrate assessment information with knowledge of the patient or group and apply clinical judgment and critical thinking to diagnosis and treatment.
Provide safe, quality, evidence-based nursing practice and contribute to professional nursing knowledge through scholarly inquiry.
Recognize and follow patient and staff safety precautions; identify and report potentially dangerous situations and take appropriate action to minimize injury risk.
Report errors to a supervisor and in the MIDAS RDE incident-reporting system when appropriate, and participate in Root Cause Analysis or other efforts to reduce risk.
Use required personal protective equipment and participate in Safe Patient Handling Initiatives.
Complete required annual and mandatory training, and maintain current BLS training.