Mount Sinai Hospital is seeking a Staff Nurse for the Operating Room on an 11 AM to 9:30 PM schedule. This is a full-time position requiring 4 days per week plus on-call weekend availability. You will deliver safe, competent, quality patient care based on nursing theory, research, and evidence-based practice within the Operating Room setting.
Responsibilities
- Assess and evaluate patient care needs and apply critical thinking skills in patient care management
- Deliver patient care incorporating the tenets of Relationship Centered Care and the nursing process
- Integrate relevant assessment and intervention skills in the delivery of nursing care
- Collaborate with the interdisciplinary healthcare team in the development, implementation, and evaluation of the plan of care
- Prioritize all aspects of patient care including teaching, rounding, coaching, and planning after hospital care
- Educate patients and caregivers about their plan of care, transition of care, health promotion, and disease prevention
- Communicate effectively and professionally with patients, family, and all members of the Interdisciplinary Patient Care Team
- Manage assignments within the Modified Primary Nursing Care Delivery Model and demonstrate effective allocation of material resources
- Role model Mount Sinai Relationship Centered Care through facilitation of admission welcome, bedside shift report, HELP protocol, AM/PM care, purposeful hourly rounding, medication review, discharge wrap-up, and MD/RN unit collaboration
- Consider patients' values, preferences, expressed needs, and knowledge in all aspects of care
- Establish and maintain therapeutic relationships with patients and families
- Conduct Purposeful Hourly Rounding on assigned patients
- Practice safe and efficient patient-centered care, identifying and escalating barriers and opportunities for improvement
- Implement process improvement strategies based on institutional evidence-based procedures
- Engage in formal and informal peer and institutional review processes
- Collaborate with interdisciplinary teams to create and implement quality improvement projects and evidence-based practice activities
- Contribute to quality and safety practices and required compliance measures
- Implement principles of high reliability to identify and avoid high-risk behaviors
- Escalate potential safety hazards or gaps from best practice following institutional chain of command protocol
- Utilize institutional information technology by documenting nursing practice to support quality and performance improvement initiatives
- Perform charge nurse duties as assigned
- Coordinate with Clinical Coordinator, Clinical Nurse Manager, Assistant Nurse Manager, or Nursing Administrator to ensure supplies are appropriately utilized and inventory is sufficient
- Escalate material or staffing resource deficits to appropriate leadership
- Demonstrate patient-focused and cost-effective approaches to patient care
- Document in an accurate and thorough manner in compliance with hospital, regulatory, and legal requirements
- Facilitate patient throughput on a shift basis
- Contribute to the environment of care to support clinical colleagues, patients, families, and healthcare team members
- Advance clinical competence in nursing practice
- Project a professional image and communicate with styles and methods that demonstrate caring, respect, compassion, and empathy
- Incorporate ethical principles into decision making
- Encourage and demonstrate a spirit of scholarship, inquiry, lifelong learning, and innovation
- Acquire knowledge and skills relative to the role, patient population, clinical specialty, and local and global health community needs
- Participate in shared decision making through specialty practice councils, nursing department committees, and unit initiatives
- Serve as a professional role model and preceptor for new staff and students
- Advance as a clinical leader through acting in the charge role, as a patient throughput facilitator, and resource person for the unit
- Articulate the values of research and evidence-based practice and its application to nursing practice
- Contribute to the profession of nursing through participation in professional organizations
Required Qualifications
- Graduation from an accredited nursing program with either a Bachelor's Degree in Nursing (BSN) or Associate's Degree in Nursing (ADN)
- For ADN graduates: either matriculation in a BSN program with graduation date within the year, or nursing experience (which requires approval by the Chief Nursing Officer)
- Licensed as a registered nurse with current registration in New York State
- Current Basic Life Support (BLS) certification from the American Heart Association (AHA)
- Relevant clinical competence in nursing practice; new graduates must possess current knowledge of the nursing process and its application
Preferred Qualifications
- Operating room experience
Schedule
- 11 AM to 9:30 PM
- Full-time, 4 days per week
- On-call weekend availability required
Compensation
- Hourly rate: $64.85
- Actual salaries depend on a variety of factors, including experience, education, and operational need
- Salary range does not include bonuses, incentive pay, differential pay, or other forms of compensation or benefits
Union
- Collective bargaining unit: NYSNA-MSH
