Staff Nurse - Inpatient BMT Oncology - Mount Sinai Hospital - Part Time Nights

Mount Sinai Health Systems•New York, NY

25d•$65 - $65•Onsite

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. This role applies nursing theory, research, evidence-based practice, and organizational standards within Mount Sinai’s Relationship Centered Care professional practice model. The nurse collaborates with the interdisciplinary team, manages patient care and resources, supports patient experience and safety, and contributes to professional development and quality improvement.

Requirements

Graduation from an accredited nursing program.
Bachelor’s degree in Nursing (BSN), or 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 registered nurse license and registration in New York State.
Basic Life Saver (BCLS) certification issued by the American Heart Association (AHA).
One year of oncology RN experience.

Responsibilities

Deliver patient care using the nursing process, evidence-based practice, and approved organizational standards within the Relationship Centered Care model.
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 appropriate delegation.
Educate patients and caregivers about the plan of care, care transitions, health promotion, and disease prevention.
Communicate effectively and professionally with patients, families, and members of the interdisciplinary team.
Manage assignments within the Modified Primary Nursing care delivery model and use material resources effectively.
Model Mount Sinai Relationship Centered Care practices, including admission welcome, bedside shift report, purposeful hourly rounding, medication review, and discharge wrap-up.
Consider patients’ values, preferences, cultural diversity, expressed needs, and knowledge when providing care; establish therapeutic relationships with patients and families.
Use evidence-based practices to understand patients’ perceptions of care, initiate service recovery when concerns arise, and escalate concerns when needed.
Demonstrate caring, respect, compassion, empathy, and active listening; conduct purposeful hourly rounding 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 skills and knowledge, implement process improvement strategies, participate in review processes, and contribute to quality improvement, evidence-based practice, and nursing research activities.
Contribute to quality and safety practices and compliance measures, apply high-reliability principles, and document nursing practice using institutional information technology.
Perform charge nurse duties when assigned and coordinate supply utilization and inventory with nursing leadership.
Escalate material or staffing resource deficits and use equipment, staff, supplies, and other resources in a patient-focused and cost-effective manner.
Document accurately and thoroughly in accordance with hospital, regulatory, and legal requirements and standards of care.
Facilitate patient throughput during the shift.
Support colleagues, patients, families, and the healthcare team; advance clinical competence and maintain a professional, compassionate manner.
Incorporate ethical principles into decisions and encourage scholarship, inquiry, lifelong learning, and innovation.
Acquire knowledge and skills relevant to the role, patient population, specialty, and community health needs.
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, and resource roles.
Articulate the value and application of research and evidence-based practice, and contribute to nursing through participation in professional organizations.