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

Mount Sinai Health System • New York, NY

3d

About The Position

The Staff Nurse is responsible for the care activities and goal achievements of assigned patients. The role assesses, diagnoses, plans, and intervenes in actual or potential health problems, and evaluates patients’ responses to care. It also includes health teaching and discharge planning. As a member of a designated care team, the nurse collaborates with, coordinates, and guides team members in planning patient care activities, demonstrating 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 through interviews, examinations, observations, and review of patient records.
• Ensure patient progress or lack of progress is reflected in progress notes and revised care plans.
• Plan discharges consistent with patient status and coordinate interdepartmental and inter-agency communication.
• Communicate information to patients in consideration of 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.
• 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 provision to meet patients’ and the unit’s priority needs.
• Communicate patient or unit conditions requiring additional intervention to the appropriate leadership person.
• Participate in the development of other staff members.
• Communicate with peers when appraising nursing practice, including one's own practice and that of 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 the completion and quality of assigned tasks.
• Identify and communicate the need for further staff education to the immediate supervisor.
• Communicate with nursing leadership in recognition of the authorities and responsibilities of nursing management levels.
• Seek and use nursing leaders as role models and resources.
• Collaborate with other disciplines to meet patient and unit needs.
• Reflect the philosophy, goals, and objectives of the Department of Nursing and Hospital Center in communication and interactions with families and other groups.

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