Per Diem Staff Nurse - Operating Room - Mount Sinai Morningside - Days
Mount Sinai Health Systems•New York, NY
•$86 - $86
About The Position
The Staff Nurse is responsible for the care activities and goal achievement of assigned patients by assessing, diagnosing, planning, and intervening in actual or potential health problems and evaluating patients’ responses to care. The role includes health teaching and discharge planning. As a member of a designated care team, the nurse collaborates with, coordinates, and guides team members in planning patient care activities, demonstrating the scientific knowledge, judgment, and teaching skills of a professional nurse.
Requirements
- Graduation from an accredited nursing program.
- Bachelor’s degree in Nursing.
- Two years of Operating Room experience.
- Licensed and currently registered, or otherwise duly authorized, to practice as a professional nurse in New York State.
- BLS certification.
Responsibilities
- Conduct nursing assessments based on patient interviews, examinations, observations, and record reviews.
- Document patient progress or lack of progress in progress notes and revise care plans as needed.
- Plan discharges in accordance with patient status, coordinating interdepartmental and inter-agency communication.
- Communicate information to patients according to their awareness and readiness to learn.
- Support new staff orientation by observing professional behaviors, providing feedback, and serving as a preceptor, role model, and resource.
- Serve as a professional role model and mentor for students and volunteers.
- Make patient care assignments with awareness of patient needs and personnel skill levels.
- Organize care to meet the priority needs of patients and the unit.
- Communicate patient or unit conditions requiring additional intervention to the appropriate leadership person.
- Participate in developing other staff members.
- Communicate with peers when appraising the practice of oneself and other nursing personnel.
- Collaborate through communication and nursing actions to meet patient and unit needs.
- Provide direction, assistance, and support.
- Accept accountability and responsibility for completing assigned tasks and maintaining their quality.
- Identify and communicate staff education needs to the immediate supervisor.
- Communicate with nursing leadership in accordance with the authorities and responsibilities of nursing management levels.
- Seek and utilize nursing leaders as role models and resources.
- Collaborate and communicate with other disciplines to meet patient and unit needs.
- Reflect the philosophy, goals, and objectives of the Department of Nursing and Hospital Center when communicating and interacting with families and other groups.
