Staff Nurse - Inpatient Palliative - Mount Sinai Hospital -Per Diem Nights
About The Position
The Clinical Nurse is a Registered Professional Nurse who provides safe, competent, quality care to a designated group of patients and their significant others. Care is based on nursing theory, research, evidence-based practice, and approved organizational nursing standards, and incorporates Mount Sinai’s Relationship Centered Care professional practice model and Modified Primary Nursing Care Delivery Model. The role includes direct patient care, patient and family education, coordination with the interdisciplinary healthcare team, and contributions to patient experience, quality and safety, unit operations, and professional development. The nurse documents care in accordance with hospital, regulatory, and legal requirements and may perform charge nurse duties as assigned.
Requirements
- Graduation from an accredited nursing program.
- Bachelor’s degree in Nursing (BSN); alternatively, an Associate’s Degree in Nursing (ADN) RN matriculated in a BSN program with graduation expected within one year. An ADN RN 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 license and registration.
- Basic Life Support (BLS) certification issued by the American Heart Association (AHA).
- Acute inpatient nursing experience.
Responsibilities
- Deliver patient care using the nursing process and the principles of Relationship Centered Care, evidence-based practice, and approved 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 delegation as appropriate.
- 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 and conduct purposeful hourly rounding for assigned patients.
- Establish therapeutic relationships with patients and families, demonstrate compassion and active listening, and address concerns through service recovery and escalation when needed.
- Practice safe, efficient, patient-centered care; identify and escalate barriers, safety hazards, and opportunities for improvement.
- Apply clinical skills and knowledge to support quality and safety, participate in improvement strategies and review processes, and collaborate on quality improvement, evidence-based practice, and nursing research activities.
- Document nursing practice using institutional information technology and comply with required quality, safety, regulatory, and legal standards.
- Perform charge nurse duties as assigned and coordinate with nursing leadership regarding supply use, inventory, and staffing or material resource deficits.
- Use equipment, staff, supplies, and other resources in a patient-focused and cost-effective manner.
- Support colleagues, patients, families, and healthcare team members; maintain professional conduct and incorporate ethical principles into decision-making.
- Develop clinical competence and acquire knowledge and skills relevant to the role, patient population, specialty, and community needs.
- Participate in shared decision-making, specialty practice councils, nursing committees, and unit initiatives.
- Serve as a professional role model and preceptor for new staff and students; contribute as a charge nurse, patient throughput facilitator, or unit resource person as appropriate.
- Promote scholarship, lifelong learning, innovation, research, and evidence-based practice, and participate in professional nursing organizations.
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Career Level
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