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

11d • 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. In the operating room, the nurse delivers patient-centered care using the nursing process, evidence-based practice, and organizational nursing standards. The role includes assessing patient needs, coordinating care with the interdisciplinary team, educating patients and caregivers, maintaining a therapeutic relationship, and contributing to quality, safety, and operational effectiveness. The nurse also supports professional development, shared decision-making, and the clinical growth of colleagues.

Requirements

• Graduation from an accredited nursing program.
• Bachelor’s degree in Nursing (BSN), or an Associate’s Degree in Nursing (ADN) with the RN matriculated in a BSN program and expected to graduate within one year.
• An ADN-prepared RN with nursing experience requires approval by the Chief Nursing Officer.
• 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 (BCLS) certification issued by the American Heart Association.

Nice To Haves

• Operating room experience.

Responsibilities

• Deliver patient care using Relationship Centered Care principles, the nursing process, research, evidence-based practice, and organizational nursing standards.
• Assess and evaluate patient care needs and apply critical thinking and relevant clinical skills.
• Collaborate with the interdisciplinary healthcare team to develop, implement, and evaluate plans of care.
• Prioritize and coordinate patient care, including teaching, rounding, coaching, discharge planning, and appropriate delegation.
• Educate patients and caregivers about the plan of care, care transitions, health promotion, and disease prevention.
• Communicate professionally with patients, families, and members of the interdisciplinary care team.
• Manage assignments within the Modified Primary Nursing Care Delivery Model and use material resources effectively.
• Role-model Mount Sinai Relationship Centered Care practices, including admission welcomes, bedside shift reports, purposeful hourly rounding, medication review, and discharge wrap-up.
• Consider patients’ values, preferences, needs, and knowledge in all aspects of care, and maintain therapeutic relationships with patients and families.
• Use evidence-based practices to understand patient perceptions of care and initiate service recovery, escalating concerns when needed.
• Provide care with respect, compassion, empathy, and active listening; conduct purposeful hourly rounding addressing the 4 Ps.
• Identify and escalate safety barriers and improvement opportunities; apply clinical skills and knowledge to support quality and safety.
• Implement process-improvement strategies and participate in peer and institutional review, quality-improvement projects, evidence-based practice activities, and nursing research.
• Support compliance measures and high-reliability practices, escalate safety hazards through the chain of command, and document nursing practice using institutional information technology.
• Perform charge nurse duties as assigned.
• Coordinate supplies and inventory with clinical leadership and escalate staffing or material resource deficits.
• Use patient-focused, cost-effective approaches to equipment, staffing, supplies, and other resources.
• Maintain accurate documentation in accordance with hospital, regulatory, legal, and care standards, and facilitate patient throughput during the shift.
• Support the care environment for colleagues, patients, families, and the healthcare team; advance clinical competence and maintain a professional, caring manner.
• Apply ethical principles, lifelong learning, scholarship, inquiry, and innovation to nursing practice.
• Participate in shared decision-making through specialty practice councils, nursing committees, and unit initiatives.
• Serve as a professional role model and preceptor for new staff and students, and contribute as a clinical leader and resource person.
• Promote research and evidence-based practice and contribute to the nursing profession through professional organizations.

What This Job Offers

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