Registered Nurse-Multispecialty-Yonkers, NY-Full Time, Day-Offsite

JOB DESCRIPTION

Registered Nurse-Multispecialty-Yonkers, NY-Full Time, Day-Offsite

The Offsite Registered Nurse is a Registered Professional Nurse who provides safe, competent, quality care based on nursing theory and research to a designated group of patients and significant others.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Assists in development, implementation, and evaluation of standards of care and professional practice in collaboration with members of the health care team and in accordance with institutional policies and regulatory agency requirements.

Assesses and evaluates patient needs for, and responses to, care rendered and applies sound nursing judgment in patient care management decisions.

Provides direct, continuous, (where applicable), care for a specific caseload of patients through application of the nursing process based upon theory, research, and approved Department of Nursing and institutional standards.

Coordinates patient care activities, based on established priorities, including teaching, rounding, counseling, and discharge planning, and directs / delegates appropriately to members of the health care team.

Communicates effectively and professionally with patients, significant others, and members of the health care team about the patient's plan of care.

Participates in performance improvement, nursing quality, nursing research activities and utilizes same in clinical practice.

Participates in the design, measurement, and assessment of care related structures, processes, and outcomes to improve the quality of patient care.

Demonstrates responsibility and accountability for nursing practice and the delivery of safe, competent patient care.

Participates in maintaining a safe, therapeutic, and consumer oriented environment.

Respects and values each patient's unique, individual needs, beliefs, and diversity and incorporates these into planning and delivery of care.

Collaborates with members of the health care team, the patient, and significant others to plan and implement the patient's care.

Coordinates discharge planning from the day of admission to day of discharge or transfer to alternate care continuum. Conducts discharge phone calls on selected patients.

Performs charge responsibilities, as assigned.

Maintains clinical competence and is responsible for own professional growth and development along the continuum from advanced beginner to expert.

Functions as a professional role model and preceptor for students, new hires, and staff. Supports the mission, philosophy, standards, and objectives of the institution and department.

Demonstrates a professional commitment to patients, significant others, and members of the health care team.

Participates in identification, response to, and investigation of potential and actual risk management issues.

Projects a professional image and maintains a positive attitude.

Incorporates ethical principles in decision making.

Utilizes available financial and other resources prudently.

Promotes positive consumer interactions and upholds the Patient Bill of Rights.

Participates actively in institutional committees, community agencies, and professional organizations.

Encourages scholarship, a spirit of inquiry, life-long learning, innovation, and research in self and colleagues.

Treats co-workers, patients and families with dignity and respect.

Is open and responsive to the diverse backgrounds and experience of other people and promotes an environment that is sensitive to cultural diversity.

QUALIFICATIONS

Bachelors degree in Nursing

Must have relevant clinical competence in area of nursing practice; new graduates possess current knowledge of the nursing process and its application

Must have relevant clinical competence in area of nursing practice; new graduates possess current knowledge of the nursing process and its application

BLS from AHA

Non-Bargaining Unit, 950 - Riverside Overhead - OFFS, Mount Sinai Hospital

REQUIRED SKILLS

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Word

Outlook

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.

At Mount Sinai, our leaders strive to learn, empower others, and embrace change to further advance equity and improve the well-being of staff, patients, and the organization.

We expect our leaders to embrace anti-racism, create a collaborative and respectful environment, and constructively disrupt the status quo to improve the system and enhance care for our patients.

We work hard to create an inclusive, welcoming and nurturing work environment where all feel they are valued, belong and are able to advance professionally.

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.

EOE Minorities / Women / Disabled / Veterans

Requisition ID : 3000556