Registered Nurse – Radiology
Long Island City, New York
Mount Sinai Queens

Job Summary: Registered Nurse - Radiology (Travel)

Location: Long Island City, New York
Specialty: Radiology Nursing
Employment Type: Contract
Contract Length: 9 weeks

Job Description

As a Clinical Nurse in the Radiology Department, you will provide safe, competent, and quality nursing care based on nursing theory, research, and evidence-based practice to patients and their families. You will work collaboratively with the interdisciplinary healthcare team to assess, plan, implement, and evaluate patient care.

Key Responsibilities

Patient Care

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

Patient Experience

• Role model Relationship Centered Care through admission welcome, bedside shift reports, purposeful rounding, medication review, discharge wrap-up, and collaboration with physicians.
• Respect patient values, preferences, cultural diversity, and expressed needs.
• Establish 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.
• Support staff in evidence-based patient care practices.
• Conduct Purposeful Hourly Rounding addressing key patient needs.

Quality and Safety

• Practice safe, patient-centered care and identify barriers to quality.
• Demonstrate clinical skills essential to patient safety.
• Implement process improvements based on evidence and institutional standards.
• Participate in peer and institutional review processes.
• Collaborate on quality improvement projects and nursing research.
• Contribute to compliance with quality and safety measures.
• Apply high reliability principles to avoid high-risk behaviors.
• Escalate safety hazards following institutional protocols.
• Document nursing practice accurately to support quality initiatives.

Operations

• Perform charge nurse duties as assigned.
• Coordinate with management to ensure adequate supplies and inventory.
• Escalate material or staffing shortages appropriately.
• Use patient-focused and cost-effective approaches to resource management.
• 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 respect and empathy.
• Incorporate ethical principles in decision-making.
• Promote lifelong learning, scholarship, and innovation.
• Acquire knowledge and skills relevant to role and specialty.
• Participate in shared decision-making through councils and committees.

Qualifications & Skills

• Current New York State RN License
• BLS and ACLS certification
• Minimum 2 years RN experience, including ambulatory outpatient and radiation safety experience
• 1 year travel nursing experience preferred (not required for Per Diem)
• EPIC electronic health record experience highly preferred
• Bachelor of Science in Nursing preferred; Associate degree considered with relevant experience or active BSN matriculation
• Schedule: 3 shifts of 12 hours each

This position offers an opportunity to work in a dynamic radiology environment, providing high-quality nursing care while advancing your professional skills in a supportive healthcare system.