Per Diem Staff Nurse - Operating Room - Mount Sinai Morningside - Days

Mount Sinai Health System•New York, NY

3d•Onsite

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 nurse provides health teaching and discharge planning and serves as a member of a designated care team, collaborating, coordinating, and guiding team members in patient-care planning. The role demonstrates 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 review of records.
Ensure patient progress or lack of progress is reflected in progress notes and revised care plans.
Plan for discharge consistent with patient status, including interdepartmental and interagency communication.
Communicate information to patients in accordance with their awareness and readiness to learn.
Support orientation of new staff 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 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 leadership person in the relevant discipline.
Participate in the development of other staff members.
Communicate with peers in appraising 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 while demonstrating awareness of the authorities and responsibilities of nursing management levels.
Seek and use nursing leaders as role models and resource persons.
Collaborate with other disciplines through communication to meet patient and unit needs.
Reflect the Department of Nursing and Hospital Center philosophy, goals, and objectives in communication and interaction with families and other groups.