Outpatient Cardiology Registered Nurse
New York, New York
Mount Sinai West

Registered Nurse (RN) - Outpatient - Contract

Location: New York, NY
Employment Type: Contract
Shift: 9 AM – 5 PM (No weekends)
Hours: Approximately 37.5 hours per week (3 shifts of 12 hours noted, but actual shift is 9 AM–5 PM)
Contract Length: 9 weeks

Job Summary

Provide safe, competent, quality ambulatory care nursing based on nursing theory, research, and evidence-based practice to a designated patient population in an outpatient setting.

Key Responsibilities

Patient Care

• Deliver nursing care using Relationship Centered Care principles and the nursing process.
• Assess and evaluate patient needs, applying critical thinking in care management.
• Collaborate with interdisciplinary healthcare 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, disease prevention, and transitions of care.
• Communicate professionally with patients, families, and healthcare team members.
• Manage assignments within a Modified Primary Nursing care delivery model.

Patient Experience

• Role model patient-centered care practices such as bedside shift reports, 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 empathy, respect, compassion, and active listening.

Quality and Safety

• Practice safe, efficient, patient-centered care and escalate safety concerns.
• Apply clinical skills essential to quality and safety in the patient population served.
• Participate in quality improvement projects, evidence-based practice activities, and nursing research.
• Follow high reliability principles to avoid high-risk behaviors and maintain a safe environment.
• Document nursing practice accurately to support quality and performance improvement initiatives.

Operations

• Perform charge nurse duties as assigned.
• Coordinate supply and inventory management to ensure adequate resources for patient care.
• Escalate material or staffing shortages as needed.
• Facilitate patient throughput during shifts.
• Document in compliance with regulatory and legal standards.

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 caring, respect, and empathy.
• Incorporate ethical principles into decision-making.
• Engage in lifelong learning, scholarship, inquiry, and innovation.
• Participate in shared decision-making through specialty councils and committees.

Required Qualifications

• Valid Registered Nurse (RN) license in New York State
• Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN)
• Minimum 2 years of ambulatory care nursing experience, including experience within the last year
• Experience in an outpatient setting
• Minimum 2 years of cardiology experience
• Current Basic Life Support (BLS) certification
• Current Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS) certification
• Proficient IV skills
• Experience in charge nurse roles
• Knowledge and application of quality improvement principles
• Adherence to high reliability principles in clinical practice