Staff Nurse - NICU - Mount Sinai Hospital - Full Time Nights

Mount Sinai Health Systems•New York, NY

2d•$65 - $65

About The Position

The Clinical Nurse is a Registered Professional Nurse who provides safe, competent, quality care to an assigned group of patients and their significant others. The nurse applies nursing theory, research, evidence-based practice, and organizational standards within Mount Sinai’s Relationship Centered Care professional practice model and Modified Primary Nursing care delivery model. The role encompasses direct patient care, patient and caregiver education, coordination with the interdisciplinary healthcare team, patient experience, quality and safety, operational support, and ongoing professional development. The nurse documents care in accordance with hospital, regulatory, legal, and professional standards; supports patient throughput; and may perform charge nurse duties as assigned.

Requirements

Graduation from an accredited nursing program.
Bachelor’s degree in Nursing (BSN), or an Associate’s Degree in Nursing (ADN) RN matriculated in a BSN program with a graduation date within the year. An ADN RN with nursing experience must be approved 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 New York State registered nurse license and registration.
Basic Life Support (BLS) certification from the American Heart Association.
Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP) certification.
One year of inpatient RN experience.

Nice To Haves

NICU experience preferred.

Responsibilities

Deliver patient care using the nursing process, evidence-based practice, research, and approved organizational nursing 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 activities, including teaching, rounding, coaching, discharge planning, and appropriate delegation.
Educate patients and caregivers about care plans, transitions of care, health promotion, and disease prevention.
Communicate professionally with patients, families, and members of the interdisciplinary patient care team.
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, purposeful hourly rounding, medication review, discharge wrap-up, and MD/RN unit collaboration.
Consider patient values, preferences, expressed needs, and knowledge in all aspects of care; establish and maintain 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 when patients or families raise concerns and escalate issues as needed.
Demonstrate caring, respect, compassion, empathy, and active listening.
Practice safe, efficient, patient-centered care; identify and escalate barriers, improvement opportunities, safety hazards, and gaps from best practice.
Apply clinical skills and knowledge relevant to the population served and contribute to quality, safety, and compliance measures.
Participate in process improvement, peer and institutional review, quality improvement projects, evidence-based practice activities, and nursing research studies.
Use institutional information technology to document nursing practice and support quality and performance improvement initiatives.
Perform charge nurse duties as assigned.
Coordinate supply use and inventory with clinical leadership, and escalate material or staffing resource deficits.
Use patient-focused, cost-effective approaches to equipment, staffing, supplies, and other resources.
Document accurately and thoroughly in accordance with hospital, regulatory, legal, and standards-of-care requirements.
Facilitate patient throughput during the shift.
Support the care environment for clinical colleagues, patients, families, and the healthcare team.
Advance clinical competence and acquire knowledge and skills relevant to the role, patient population, specialty, and community health needs.
Use ethical principles in decision-making and encourage scholarship, inquiry, lifelong learning, and innovation.
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.
Develop clinical leadership through charge responsibilities, patient throughput facilitation, and serving as a unit resource person.
Communicate the value and application of research and evidence-based practice in nursing.
Contribute to the nursing profession through participation in professional organizations.