Staff Nurse-Intensive Care Unit Float Pool- Mount Sinai Hospital-Full Time- Days

Mount Sinai Health Systems • New York, NY

17d • $71 - $71

About The Position

The Clinical Nurse for the Mount Sinai nursing float pool is a Registered Professional Nurse who provides safe, competent, quality care based on nursing theory and research to a designated group of patients on a variety of assigned units. The role applies the nursing process, evidence-based practice, and approved organizational standards while collaborating with the interdisciplinary healthcare team and supporting patient-centered care, quality and safety, unit operations, and professional development.

Requirements

• Graduation from an accredited nursing program.
• Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing (BSN), or an Associate’s Degree in Nursing (ADN) with RN matriculation in a BSN program and expected graduation within the year.
• An ADN RN with nursing experience requires approval 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 Saver (BCLS) certification issued by the AHA.

Responsibilities

• Deliver patient care using the professional practice model of Relationship Centered Care and the nursing process, grounded in theory, research, evidence-based practice, and 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, including teaching, rounding, coaching, discharge planning, and appropriate delegation.
• Educate patients and caregivers about plans of care, transitions of care, health promotion, and disease prevention.
• Communicate effectively and professionally with patients, families, and members of the interdisciplinary care team.
• Manage assignments under the Modified Primary Nursing care delivery model and allocate 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 collaboration.
• Consider patients’ values, preferences, expressed needs, and knowledge in all aspects of care, and establish 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 family members have concerns and escalate issues as needed.
• Demonstrate caring, respect, compassion, empathy, and active listening in interactions.
• Conduct Purposeful Hourly Rounding on assigned patients, addressing the 4 Ps.
• Provide safe, efficient, patient-centered care; identify and escalate barriers, improvement opportunities, safety hazards, and gaps from best practice.
• Apply clinical knowledge and skills, process-improvement strategies, high-reliability principles, and required quality and safety compliance measures.
• Participate in peer and institutional reviews, quality-improvement projects, evidence-based practice activities, and nursing research studies.
• Document nursing practice using institutional information technology to support quality and performance improvement, and maintain accurate records in compliance with hospital, regulatory, and legal requirements.
• Perform charge nurse duties as assigned and coordinate supply use and inventory with clinical leadership.
• Escalate material or staffing resource deficits and use equipment, staff, supplies, and other resources in a patient-focused and cost-effective manner.
• Facilitate patient throughput on a shift basis.
• Support clinical colleagues, patients, families, and healthcare team members in the care environment.
• Advance clinical competence and acquire knowledge and skills relevant to the role, patient population, specialty, and community health needs.
• Model professionalism, incorporate ethical principles into 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, and advance as a clinical leader through charge, throughput facilitator, and resource roles.
• Articulate the value and application of research and evidence-based practice, and contribute to nursing through professional organizations.

What This Job Offers

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