Registered Nurse - Mount Sinai Brooklyn - Chemotherapy Suite - Full-time day

Job Description

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 patient's response to care.

Responsible health teaching and discharge planning

Acts as a member of a designated care team and collaborates, coordinates and guides team members in planning patient care activities.

Demonstrates behaviors, which reflect the scientific knowledge, judgment and teaching skills of a professional nurse

Responsibilities

Roles & Responsibilities :

The Registered Nurse (RN) provides and coordinates the care of patients / families and significant others in the ambulatory care office practice setting by assessing, diagnosing, planning and intervening in actual or potential health problems, including evaluation of the patient's response to the care.

These responsibilities also include patient / family / significant other education and health maintenance strategies. The RN is a member of a designated health care team and collaborates, coordinates and guides team members in planning patient care and achieving goals.

• Performs chemo, therapeutic treatments and therapeutic phlebotomies.
• Performs conscious sedation and other procedures specific to specialty practices.
• Administer blood and blood products, specific to specialty areas.
• Administer oral / IM / IV / SQ / Inhaled medications
• Responsible for all unit enabling clinical operations including patient flow, assignment, ordering and medical record preparations.
• Triage all sick and walk-in patients.
• Responsible for telephone communication, telephone triage, communicate test results in collaboration with provider including appropriate follow-up.
• Accesses and maintains central lines / ports for blood drawing and medication administration.
• Provides and initiates respiratory interventions according to standards.
• Coordinates delegates and / or provides all other patient care activities.
• Initiates CPR
• Coordinates in-patient admissions and ER referrals.
• Identifies learning family / patient needs, including level of comprehension.
• Informs about treatments, tests, preps, OR procedures.
• Instructs on home and self-care.
• Evaluates client outcomes through return demonstration and / or verbalization of understanding.
• Maintains an environment that is conducive to meeting patient care needs and that facilitates patient flow.
• Promotes and provides for patient safety in accordance with state and federal guidelines.
• Practices and monitors infection control. Maintains a clean, quiet, organized patient care environment
• Demonstrates a professional, courteous, and respectful attitude in dealing with patients families and significant others.
• May be required to perform other duties as assigned or perform other duties when necessary.

Qualifications

Requirements :

• Bachelors Degree preferred, Current NY State Registered Nurse License required
• Minimum 2 years Medical Oncology Nursing Experience Required
• Oncology Nursing Society (ONS) Active Chemotherapy - Biotherapy Provider Card required
• Certification in area of specialty is highly recommended, BLS, ACLS required
• Ability to lift and move heavy objects / patients.
• Proficient in medical terminology and HIPAA guidelines
• Ability to handle multiple priorities and to deal calmly with individuals under stress; ability to organize the activities of multiple patients;

effective interpersonal and communications skills required, excellent telephone etiquette; ability to communicate effectively with patients and families

• Effective organizational skills, basic computer skills, Effective interpersonal skills, Ability to problem solve using critical thinking.
• Must be able to adapt to a growing and changing environment

Collective bargaining unit : SEIU 1199-MSB-RN

SEIU 1199 at Mount Sinai Brooklyn for Registered Nurses, BUK - Chemotherapy Suite - BKL, Mount Sinai Brooklyn

About Us

Strength Through Diversity

The Mount Sinai Health System believes that diversity, equity, and inclusion are key drivers for excellence. We share a common devotion to delivering exceptional patient care.

When you join us, you become a part of Mount Sinai's unrivaled record of achievement, education, and advancement as we revolutionize medicine together.

We invite you to participate actively as a part of the Mount Sinai Health System team by :

• Using a lens of equity in all aspects of patient care delivery, education, and research to promote policies and practices to allow opportunities for all to thrive and reach their potential.
• Serving as a role model confronting racist, sexist, or other inappropriate actions by speaking up, challenging exclusionary organizational practices, and standing side-by-side in support of colleagues who experience discrimination.
• Inspiring and fostering an environment of anti-racist behaviors among and between departments and co-workers.

We work hard to acquire and retain the best people and to create an inclusive, welcoming and nurturing work environment where all feel they are valued, belong and are able to professional advance.

We share the belief that all employees, regardless of job title or expertise contribute to the patient experience and quality of patient care.

Explore more about this opportunity and how you can help us write a new chapter in our history!

About the Mount Sinai Health System :

Mount Sinai Health System is one of the largest academic medical systems in the New York metro area, with more than 43,000 employees working across eight hospitals, more than 400 outpatient practices, more than 300 labs, a school of nursing, and a leading school of medicine and graduate education.

Mount Sinai advances health for all people, everywhere, by taking on the most complex health care challenges of our time - discovering and applying new scientific learning and knowledge;

developing safer, more effective treatments; educating the next generation of medical leaders and innovators; and supporting local communities by delivering high-quality care to all who need it.

Through the integration of its hospitals, labs, and schools, Mount Sinai offers comprehensive health care solutions from birth through geriatrics, leveraging innovative approaches such as artificial intelligence and informatics while keeping patients' medical and emotional needs at the center of all treatment.

The Health System includes approximately 7,400 primary and specialty care physicians; 13 joint-venture outpatient surgery centers throughout the five boroughs of New York City, Westchester, Long Island, and Florida;

and more than 30 affiliated community health centers. We are consistently ranked by U.S. News & World Report's Best Hospitals, receiving high "Honor Roll" status, and are highly ranked : No.

1 in Geriatrics and top 20 in Cardiology / Heart Surgery, Diabetes / Endocrinology, Gastroenterology / GI Surgery, Neurology / Neurosurgery, Orthopedics, Pulmonology / Lung Surgery, Rehabilitation, and Urology.

New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai is ranked No. 12 in Ophthalmology. U.S. News & World Report's "Best Children's Hospitals" ranks Mount Sinai Kravis Children's Hospital among the country's best in several pediatric specialties.

The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai is ranked No. 14 nationwide in National Institutes of Health funding and in the 99th percentile in research dollars per investigator according to the Association of American Medical Colleges.

Newsweek's "The World's Best Smart Hospitals" ranks The Mount Sinai Hospital as No. 1 in New York and in the top five globally, and Mount Sinai Morningside in the top 20 globally.

The Mount Sinai Health System is an equal opportunity employer. We comply with applicable Federal civil rights laws and does not discriminate, exclude, or treat people differently on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, religion, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression.

We are passionately committed to addressing racism and its effects on our faculty, staff, students, trainees, patients, visitors, and the communities we serve.

Our goal is for Mount Sinai to become an anti-racist health care and learning institution that intentionally addresses structural racism."

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