Staff Nurse- MedicalSurgical Float Pool-Mount Sinai West- Full Time- Night Shift

Strength Through Diversity

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Roles & Responsibilities:

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 patients 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.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

1. Conducts Nursing assessment based on interview examination observation and review of records of the patient
2. Ensures that the patients progress or lack of progress is reflected in progress notes and in the revised care plans
3. Discharge planning consistent with the patients status and reflects interdepartmental and interagency communication
4. Communicates information to the patient based on the patients level of awareness and readiness to learn
5. Supports orientation of new staff members by observing professional behaviors providing feedback to the staff member and by acting as a preceptor role model and a resource person
6. Functions as a professional role model and mentor for students and volunteers.
7. Patient care assignments reflecting an awareness of patient needs and skill level of personnel
8. Organization of provision of care to meets priority needs of patients and unit
9. Communicates condition of patients and unit requiring additional intervention to the leadership person in the relevant discipline
10. Participates in the development of other staff members
11. Communicates with peers in an appraisal of practice as it relates to self and other nursing personnel
12. Reflects a collaborative effort in meeting the needs of the patient and unit through communication and nursing actions
13. Provides direction assistance and support
14. Assumes accountability and responsibility for completion and quality of assigned tasks
15. Identifies and communicates to immediate supervisor the need for further staff education
16. Reflects awareness of authorities and responsibilities of nursing management levels by communication with nursing leadership
17. Seeks and utilizes nursing leaders as role models and resource persons
18. Reflects collaborative effort in meeting patient and unit needs by communication with other disciplines
19. Reflects the philosophy goals and objectives of the Department of Nursing and the Hospital Center in communication and interaction with families and other groups

Requirements:

Graduation from an accredited Nursing program. Bachelors Degree in Nursing or active matriculation in a Bachelors Degree in Nursing Program preferred.

At least one year of acute RN Experience required.

Medical/ Surgical RN experience Medical Surgical Float Pool experience highly preferred

BLS certification required/ACLS certification preferred

Microsoft Office Suite Basic Computer Skills

Moderate Level of Physical Activity Required

Moderate Physical Activity (e.g. occasional to prolonged standing lifting bending filing typing etc.

Exposure to Infectious Materials (e.g. fluids solids tissue and/or other waste products)

Current New York State Registered Nurse/ RN License (or willingness and eligibility to obtain)

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 Sinais 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 sidebyside in support of colleagues who experience discrimination
• Inspiring and fostering an environment of antiracist behaviors among and between departments and coworkers
• 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 professionally advance. We share the belief that all employees regardless of job title or expertise contribute to the patient experience and quality of patient care.

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Who We Are

Over 38000 employees strong the mission of the Mount Sinai Health System is to provide compassionate patient care with seamless coordination and to advance medicine through unrivaled education research and outreach in the many diverse communities we serve.

Formed in September 2013 The Mount Sinai Health System combines the excellence of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai with seven premier hospitals including Mount Sinai Beth Israel Mount Sinai Brooklyn The Mount Sinai Hospital Mount Sinai Queens Mount Sinai West (formerly Mount Sinai Roosevelt) Mount Sinai Morningside Formerly St Lukes) and New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai.

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.

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