Registered Nurse, Per Diem -Solid Organ Transplant - NIGHTS -min Requ

Position : Registered Nurse, Per Diem -Solid Organ Transplant - NIGHTS -2 yrs min relevant experience Requ[...]\nLocation : New York\n\nNYU Langone Health is a fully integrated health system that consistently achieves the best patient outcomes through a rigorous focus on quality that has resulted in some of the lowest mortality rates in the nation. Vizient Inc. has ranked NYU Langone the No. 1 comprehensive academic medical center in the country for three years in a row, and U.S. News & World Report recently placed nine of its clinical specialties among the top five in the nation.\n\nNYU Langone offers a comprehensive range of medical services with one high standard of care across 6 inpatient locations, its Perlmutter Cancer Center, and over 320 outpatient locations in the New York area and Florida. With $14.2 billion in revenue this year, the system also includes two tuition-free medical schools, in Manhattan and on Long Island, and a vast research enterprise with over $1 billion in active awards from the National Institutes of Health.\nPosition Summary : \n\nWe have an exciting opportunity to join our team as a Registered Nurse, Per Diem – Solid Organ Transplant – NIGHTS – 2 yrs min relevant experience Required. In this role, the successful candidate carries out patient care responsibilities with emphasis on decision-making related to the steps in the nursing process to include assessment, diagnosis, identification of expected outcomes, planning, implementation, and evaluation.\n\nThe RN provides competent, safe and compassionate care based on established NYU Langone Health patient care and nursing standards. As a member of the interdisciplinary health-care team, the RN formulates the initial plan of care with the provider (physician or nurse practitioner) and collaborates to implement a comprehensive patient-centered plan of care to achieve expected outcomes, utilizing principles of assignment and delegation consistent with the New York State Nurse Practice Act.\nJob Responsibilities : \n

• Demonstrates a solid foundation and understanding of organizational goals as outlined within the quality and safety performance improvement plan and nurse sensitive quality indicators (include unit based quality measures e.g. HAPU, CAUTI, CLABSI, Falls).\n
• Collects, assesses and documents patient healthcare data.\n
• Involves patient / family and interdisciplinary team to identify a plan of care and outcomes that are realistic and measurable.\n
• Prioritizes care based upon data collected.\n
• Documents assessment and reassessment in medical records.\n
• Implements interventions in the coordination of patient care in a safe, timely and appropriate manner and applies escalation process.\n
• Considers needs and behaviors of specific patient age groups and cultural groups in all patient care activities.\n
• Documents interventions per hospital standard.\n
• Educates the patient / family regarding health status and established plan of care.\n
• Determines learning needs of the patient / family. Implements an educational plan. Collaborates with the interdisciplinary team to modify expected outcomes.\n
• Documents learning outcomes of patient / family and revises education plan (include utilization of EHR education tools).Evaluates the patient's progress toward expected outcomes. Involves the patient / family and interdisciplinary team in the evaluation process, recognizes changes in patient condition, reports documents and evaluates the effectiveness of the intervention(s).\n
• Participates in and contributes to unit activities to provide patient care in a healing, humane and caring environment.\n
• Demonstrates understanding of and contributes to unit throughput efficiencies and metrics (include unit throughput measures e.g. DBN, door to triage, assign to occupy, first case starts, room turnover).\n
• Complies with unit based and organizations professional standards, New York State Nurse Practice Act and regulations of relevant outside agencies, e.g. NY State Department of Health, The Joint Commission, regulatory requirements etc.\n
• Exhibits appropriate judgement in delegated activities.\n
• Demonstrates ability to differentiate those activities which are in scope of professional nursing practice, and those that may be delegated to ancillary staff.\n
• Complies with annual education and mandatory / regulatory requirements (include learning…