STAFF NURSE (FLEX)-Nursing Emergency Services - Mount Sinai Morningside - Full-Time Evening/Mid; EOW

Mount Sinai Health System•New York, NY

About The Position

Responsible for the care activities and goal achievements of assigned patients by assessing, diagnosing, planning, and intervening in actual or potential health problems and evaluating patients’ responses to care. Provides health teaching and discharge planning. Serves as a member of a designated care team and collaborates with, coordinates, and guides team members in planning patient care activities. Demonstrates the scientific knowledge, judgment, and teaching skills of a professional nurse. The position is in Nursing Emergency Services at Mount Sinai Morningside. The schedule is full-time evening/mid, with every other weekend (EOW).

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 an expected graduation date within one year. An ADN RN with nursing experience requires CNO approval.
Documented previous experience or educational preparation to support credentials.
New York RN credential: RN (1 Year), issued by the DOH / Office of Professions.
BCLS certification from the American Heart Association.
Special skills or experience may be required in specialized areas.

Responsibilities

Conduct nursing assessments through patient interviews, examinations, observations, and review of records.
Document patient progress or lack of progress in progress notes and revise care plans accordingly.
Plan discharges in a manner consistent with patient status and interdepartmental and interagency communication.
Communicate information to patients based on 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 person.
Serve as a professional role model and mentor for students and volunteers.
Make patient-care assignments that reflect patient needs and personnel skill levels.
Organize care to meet patients’ and the unit’s priority needs.
Communicate patient or unit conditions requiring additional intervention to the appropriate leadership person.
Participate in developing other staff members.
Communicate with peers to appraise practice as it relates to self and other nursing personnel.
Collaborate through communication and nursing actions to meet patient and unit needs.
Provide direction, assistance, and support.
Take accountability and responsibility for completion and quality of assigned tasks.
Identify and communicate to the immediate supervisor the need for further staff education.
Communicate with nursing leadership in keeping with the authorities and responsibilities of nursing management levels.
Seek and utilize nursing leaders as role models and resource persons.
Collaborate with other disciplines to meet patient and unit needs.
Reflect the philosophy, goals, and objectives of the Department of Nursing and the Hospital Center in communications and interactions with families and other groups.