Travel Nurse RN - Pediatric Behavioral Health
New York, New York
Mount Sinai Morningside

Registered Nurse – Child Adolescent Psychiatric (Contract)

Location: New York, NY
Employment Type: Staffing - Supplier Sourced
Contract Length: 13 weeks (89 days ≈ 13 weeks)
Shift: Day shift, 7:00 AM – 7:30 PM, every other weekend required
Unit Details:

• Psychiatric unit with 29 beds
• Average census: 20 patients
• Staffing ratio: 1 nurse to 6 patients
• Schedule: 3 shifts of 12 hours each

Job Summary

Provide safe, competent, quality nursing care to child and adolescent psychiatric patients using evidence-based practice and nursing theory. Collaborate with interdisciplinary teams to assess, plan, implement, and evaluate patient care. Promote therapeutic relationships with patients and families while supporting patient-centered care and safety.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

Patient Care

• Deliver nursing care based on professional practice models and nursing process.
• Assess and evaluate patient needs using critical thinking.
• Integrate assessment and intervention skills in care delivery.
• Collaborate with healthcare team on care plans.
• Prioritize patient care including education, rounding, coaching, and discharge planning.
• Educate patients and caregivers on care plans, health promotion, and disease prevention.
• Communicate effectively with patients, families, and care team members.
• Manage assignments within a Modified Primary Nursing care delivery model.

Patient Experience

• Facilitate patient-centered care activities 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 and maintain therapeutic relationships with patients and families.
• Use evidence-based practices to understand patient perceptions of care.
• Address patient and family concerns and escalate as needed.
• 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 process improvement, peer review, and quality initiatives.
• Collaborate on quality improvement projects and nursing research.
• Follow high reliability principles to avoid high-risk behaviors.
• Escalate safety hazards according to protocol.
• Document nursing practice accurately to support quality initiatives.

Operations

• Perform charge nurse duties as assigned.
• Coordinate supply and inventory management with leadership.
• Escalate resource deficits appropriately.
• Use cost-effective approaches to patient care resources.
• Document thoroughly in compliance with regulatory and legal standards.
• Facilitate patient throughput during shifts.

Professional Development

• Support clinical colleagues, patients, families, and healthcare team members.
• Advance clinical competence from novice to expert.
• Maintain a professional image and communicate with empathy and respect.
• Apply ethical principles in decision-making.
• Promote lifelong learning, inquiry, and innovation.
• Acquire knowledge relevant to role, specialty, and community health needs.
• Participate in shared decision-making through specialty councils and committees.

Required Qualifications

• Current New York State Registered Nurse (RN) license
• Basic Life Support (BLS) certification
• Minimum 2 years RN experience
• Minimum 2 years experience in geriatric psychiatric nursing
• For travel positions: at least 1 year prior travel experience required
• EPIC electronic health record experience highly preferred

Additional Information

• Unit census averages 20 patients with 29 beds total
• Staffing ratio is 1 nurse to 6 patients
• Schedule includes 3 twelve-hour shifts with weekend coverage required

This position is ideal for experienced psychiatric RNs with a background in geriatric psychiatric care and a commitment to patient-centered, evidence-based nursing practice.