Travel Nurse RN - Psychiatric
New York, New York
Mount Sinai-Behavioral Health Center

Registered Nurse (Psychiatric) - Contract

Location: New York, NY
Contract Length: 13 weeks (89 days ≈ 13 weeks)
Shift: 5x8 schedule, weekends and holidays required
Unit: Psychiatric, 31 beds

Job Summary

Provide safe, competent, quality nursing care to psychiatric patients using evidence-based practice and nursing theory. Collaborate with interdisciplinary teams to assess, plan, implement, and evaluate patient care. Support patients and families through education, therapeutic relationships, and transition planning.

Key Responsibilities

Patient Care

• Deliver nursing care based on Relationship Centered Care 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 teaching, rounding, coaching, and discharge planning.
• Educate patients and caregivers on health promotion and disease prevention.
• Communicate professionally with patients, families, and team members.
• Manage assignments within Modified Primary Nursing model.

Patient Experience

• Facilitate admission welcome, bedside shift report, purposeful hourly rounding, medication review, discharge wrap-up, and interdisciplinary collaboration.
• Respect patient values, preferences, cultural diversity, and expressed needs.
• Establish and maintain therapeutic relationships.
• Use evidence-based practices to understand patient perceptions.
• Initiate service recovery and escalate concerns as needed.
• Demonstrate caring, respect, compassion, empathy, and active listening.

Quality and Safety

• Practice safe, patient-centered care and identify barriers to improvement.
• Demonstrate clinical skills essential to patient safety.
• Implement process improvement and participate in peer and institutional reviews.
• Collaborate on quality improvement projects and nursing research.
• Follow high reliability principles to avoid high-risk behaviors.
• Escalate safety hazards per protocol.
• Document nursing practice accurately to support quality initiatives.

Operations

• Perform charge nurse duties as assigned.
• Coordinate supply and inventory management with leadership.
• Escalate material or staffing shortages appropriately.
• Use cost-effective approaches to patient care resources.
• Facilitate patient throughput during shifts.
• Maintain accurate documentation in compliance with legal and regulatory standards.

Professional Development

• Support clinical colleagues, patients, families, and healthcare team members.
• Advance clinical competence from novice to expert.
• Project a professional image demonstrating caring and empathy.
• 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 councils and committees.

Required Qualifications

• Current New York State Registered Nurse (RN) license.
• Minimum 2 years RN experience.
• Minimum 2 years current psychiatric nursing experience.
• BLS certification.
• Completion of Non-Violent Crisis Intervention Course (8 hours).
• SEL and SCR training.
• EPIC electronic health record experience highly preferred.
• Prior travel experience required for travel positions (1 year travel experience); not required for per diem roles.

Additional Information

• Staffing type: Supplier sourced staffing.
• Patient population: Psychiatric unit with 31 beds.
• Schedule includes weekends and holidays.