Registered Nurse - Patient Care Leader & Mentor

Mount Sinai Health System; New York (NY); On-site; USD 76,000 - 83,000; Full time

Job summary

Mount Sinai Health System in New York is seeking a dedicated nurse to oversee care activities, assess patient needs, plan interventions and guide the care team to achieve optimal outcomes.

The role emphasizes discharge planning, patient education, and collaboration with physicians and staff, with opportunities to mentor students and volunteers while upholding high standards of professional nursing.

Responsibilities

• Conducts Nursing assessment based on interview, examination, observation and review of records of the patient
• Ensures that the patient’s progress, or lack of progress, is reflected in progress notes and in the revised care plans
• Discharge planning consistent with the patient’s status and reflects inter-departmental and inter-agency communication
• Communicates information to the patient based on the patient’s level of awareness and readiness to learn
• 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
• Functions as a professional role model and mentor for students and volunteers.
• Patient care assignments reflecting an awareness of patient needs and skill level of personnel
• Organization of provision of care to meets priority needs of patients and unit
• Communicates condition of patients and unit requiring additional intervention to the leadership person in the relevant discipline
• Participates in the development of other staff members
• Communicates with peers in an appraisal of practice as it relates to self and other nursing personnel
• Reflects a collaborative effort in meeting the needs of the patient and unit through communication and nursing actions
• Provides direction, assistance and support
• Assumes accountability and responsibility for completion and quality of assigned tasks
• Identifies and communicates to immediate supervisor the need for further staff education
• Reflects awareness of authorities and responsibilities of nursing management levels by communication with nursing leadership
• Seeks and utilizes nursing leaders as role models and resource persons
• Reflects collaborative effort in meeting patient and unit needs by communication with other disciplines

Skills

Nursing

Job description

Mount Sinai Health System in New York is seeking a dedicated nurse to oversee care activities, assess patient needs, plan interventions and guide the care team to achieve optimal outcomes.

The role emphasizes discharge planning, patient education, and collaboration with physicians and staff, with opportunities to mentor students and volunteers while upholding high standards of professional nursing.