Staff Nurse-Intensive Care Unit Float Pool- Mount Sinai Hospital-Full Time- Days

Mount Sinai Health System•New York, NY

17d

About The Position

The Clinical Nurse for the Mount Sinai nursing float pool is a Registered Professional Nurse who provides safe, competent, quality care based on nursing theory and research to a designated group of patients on a variety of assigned units. The position applies the nursing process and evidence-based practice, collaborates with interdisciplinary teams, supports patient experience and safety, and contributes to unit operations and professional development.

Requirements

Graduation from an accredited nursing program.
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 the year.
An ADN-prepared RN with nursing experience requires approval by the CNO.
Relevant clinical competence in the assigned area of nursing practice; new graduates must have current knowledge of the nursing process and its application.
Current registration as a registered nurse in New York State.
Basic Life Saver (BCLS) certification issued by the AHA.

Responsibilities

Deliver patient-centered nursing care using the professional practice model of Relationship Centered Care and the nursing process, based on theory, research, evidence-based practice, and organizational standards.
Assess and evaluate patient care needs, apply critical thinking, and integrate 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, planning for post-hospital care, and appropriate delegation.
Educate patients and caregivers about plans of care, transitions, health promotion, and disease prevention.
Communicate effectively and professionally with patients, families, and members of the interdisciplinary patient 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, purposeful hourly rounding, medication review, discharge wrap-up, and unit collaboration.
Consider patients’ values, preferences, expressed needs, and knowledge; establish therapeutic relationships with patients and families.
Use evidence-based practices to understand patients’ perceptions of care and support staff in doing so.
Initiate service recovery for patients and families with concerns and escalate issues 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, process-improvement strategies, high-reliability principles, and required compliance measures.
Participate in peer and institutional review, quality improvement projects, evidence-based practice activities, and nursing research studies.
Document nursing practice using institutional information technology to support quality and performance improvement, and meet hospital, regulatory, legal, and standards-of-care requirements.
Perform charge nurse duties as assigned.
Coordinate with nursing leadership to ensure appropriate use of supplies and sufficient inventory, and escalate material or staffing resource deficits.
Use patient-focused and cost-effective approaches to equipment, staffing, supplies, and other resources.
Facilitate patient throughput on a shift basis.
Support the care environment for clinical colleagues, patients, families, and healthcare team members.
Advance clinical competence, maintain a professional image, and incorporate ethical principles into decision-making.
Promote scholarship, inquiry, lifelong learning, innovation, and acquisition of knowledge and skills relevant to the role and patient population.
Participate in shared decision-making through specialty practice councils, nursing department committees, and unit initiatives.
Serve as a professional role model and preceptor for new staff and students, and advance as a clinical leader and unit resource.
Articulate the value and application of research and evidence-based practice, and contribute to the nursing profession through professional organizations.