Travel Nurse RN - Med Surg
New York, New York
The Mount Sinai Hospital

Registered Nurse - Medical-Surgical (Contract)

Location: New York, NY
Employment Type: Staffing - Supplier Sourced
Shift: 7:00 PM – 7:30 AM (12-hour shifts, 3 shifts per week)
Contract Length: Approximately 13 weeks

Job Summary

Provide safe, competent, quality nursing care to a designated group of patients in surgical and medical specialties. Deliver care 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 patient-centered actions such as Admission Welcome, Bedside Shift Report, Purposeful Hourly Rounding, Medication Review, and Discharge Wrap Up.
• 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, efficient, patient-centered care and identify barriers to quality.
• Demonstrate clinical skills essential to patient safety.
• Participate in quality improvement projects, evidence-based practice activities, and nursing research.
• Escalate safety hazards or gaps following institutional protocols.
• Document nursing practice accurately to support quality and performance improvement.

Operations

• Perform charge nurse duties as assigned.
• Coordinate supply and inventory management with nursing leadership.
• Escalate material or staffing shortages appropriately.
• Promote cost-effective patient care resource utilization.
• 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.
• Apply ethical principles in decision-making.
• Encourage lifelong learning, inquiry, and innovation.
• Participate in specialty practice councils, nursing committees, and unit initiatives.

Required Qualifications

• Registered Nurse (RN) license in New York State.
• Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) required.
• Minimum 2 years of medical-surgical nursing experience in a hospital setting.
• Basic Life Support (BLS) certification.
• Prior travel nursing experience required for travel positions (minimum 1 year); not required for per diem.
• Experience with EPIC electronic health record system highly preferred.

Unit Information

• Average unit census: 33.4 patients
• Unit size: 35 beds

Note: This position requires a minimum of 2 years of medical-surgical experience and a BSN degree.