RN - Med Surg
New York, New York
Mount Sinai West

Registered Nurse (RN) - Medical Surgical Unit (Contract)

Location: New York, NY
Shift: Night Shift (7:00 PM – 7:30 AM), every other weekend and holiday required
Contract Length: Approximately 9 weeks (61 days)
Schedule: 3x12 hour shifts

Job Summary

Provide safe, competent, and quality nursing care to a designated group of patients on a Medical Surgical unit. Care delivery is based on nursing theory, research, evidence-based practice, and organizational standards.

Key Responsibilities

Patient Care

• Deliver patient care using Relationship Centered Care principles and the nursing process.
• Assess and evaluate patient needs, applying critical thinking in care management.
• Collaborate with interdisciplinary teams to develop, implement, and evaluate care plans.
• Prioritize patient care activities including teaching, rounding, coaching, discharge planning, and delegation.
• Educate patients and caregivers on care plans, health promotion, and disease prevention.
• Communicate professionally with patients, families, and healthcare team members.
• Manage assignments within a Modified Primary Nursing care delivery model.

Patient Experience

• Facilitate admission welcome, bedside shift reports, purposeful hourly rounding, medication review, discharge wrap-up, and interdisciplinary collaboration.
• Respect patient values, preferences, cultural diversity, and expressed needs.
• Establish therapeutic relationships with patients and families.
• Use evidence-based practices to understand and improve patient perceptions of care.
• Initiate service recovery and escalate patient/family concerns appropriately.
• Demonstrate caring, respect, compassion, empathy, and active listening.

Quality and Safety

• Practice safe, patient-centered care and identify barriers or opportunities for improvement.
• Demonstrate clinical skills essential to quality and safety.
• Participate in process improvement, peer review, quality projects, and nursing research.
• Follow high reliability principles to avoid high-risk behaviors and maintain a safe environment.
• Escalate safety hazards or gaps according to institutional protocols.
• Document nursing practice accurately to support quality and performance initiatives.

Operations

• Perform charge nurse duties as assigned.
• Coordinate supply and inventory management with nursing leadership.
• Escalate material or staffing shortages appropriately.
• Apply cost-effective approaches to patient care resources.
• Facilitate patient throughput during shifts.
• Maintain thorough and compliant documentation.

Professional Development

• Support clinical colleagues, patients, families, and healthcare team members.
• Advance clinical competence from novice to expert.
• Project a professional image demonstrating caring, respect, compassion, and empathy.
• Incorporate ethical principles in decision-making.
• Promote lifelong learning, inquiry, and innovation.
• Acquire knowledge relevant to role, patient population, and specialty.
• Participate in shared decision-making through specialty councils and committees.

Unit Details

• Average census: 30 patients
• Unit beds: 34
• Staffing ratio: 1 nurse to 5 patients

Required Qualifications

• Valid Registered Nurse (RN) license in New York State
• Minimum 2 years of Medical Surgical nursing experience, including experience within the last year
• Basic Life Support (BLS) certification
• Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN)
• Minimum 1 year of travel nursing experience (required for travel positions)