Staff Nurse- Operating Room - Mount Sinai Hospital -11AM-9:30PM- Full-Time ( 4 days, and on call weekends)

Mount Sinai Health System • New York, NY

12d • 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 significant others. This full-time operating room role at Mount Sinai Hospital is scheduled four days per week from 11:00 AM to 9:30 PM, with on-call weekends. The nurse delivers patient-centered care through the nursing process, works with interdisciplinary teams, supports patient experience and safety, documents care, contributes to quality improvement, and advances professional nursing practice.

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 one year; an ADN nurse 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 Saver (BCLS) certification issued by the American Heart Association.

Nice To Haves

• Operating room experience preferred.

Responsibilities

• Deliver patient care using Relationship Centered Care principles, the nursing process, research, evidence-based practice, and organizational nursing standards.
• Assess 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, discharge planning, and appropriate delegation.
• Educate patients and caregivers about plans of care, transitions, health promotion, and disease prevention.
• Communicate professionally with patients, families, and interdisciplinary care team members.
• Manage assignments within the Modified Primary Nursing care delivery model and use material resources effectively.
• Model Mount Sinai Relationship Centered Care practices, including admission welcome, bedside shift report, medication review, purposeful rounding, and discharge wrap-up.
• Consider patient values, preferences, expressed needs, and knowledge in all aspects of care; establish therapeutic relationships with patients and families.
• Use evidence-based practices to understand patient perceptions of care, initiate service recovery when concerns arise, and escalate issues as needed.
• Demonstrate caring, respect, compassion, empathy, and active listening; conduct purposeful hourly rounding addressing the 4 Ps.
• Provide safe, efficient, patient-centered care; identify and escalate barriers, improvement opportunities, hazards, and gaps from best practice.
• Apply clinical skills and high-reliability principles to promote quality and safety, and comply with required safety measures.
• Participate in peer and institutional reviews, quality improvement projects, evidence-based practice activities, and nursing research studies.
• Document nursing practice and patient care accurately and thoroughly using institutional information technology and in compliance with hospital, regulatory, and legal requirements.
• Perform charge nurse duties as assigned and coordinate supplies and inventory with clinical leadership.
• Escalate staffing or material resource deficits and use equipment, staff, supplies, and other resources in a patient-focused, cost-effective manner.
• Facilitate patient throughput during the shift.
• Support colleagues, patients, families, and the healthcare team; develop clinical competence and maintain a professional, ethical, compassionate approach.
• Pursue lifelong learning, scholarship, innovation, and role-specific knowledge; participate in shared decision-making through councils, committees, and unit initiatives.
• Serve as a professional role model and preceptor for new staff and students, and advance clinical leadership by acting as charge nurse, throughput facilitator, or unit resource.
• Articulate the value and application of research and evidence-based practice and participate in professional nursing organizations.

What This Job Offers

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