NICU Registered Nurse
New York, New York
Mount Sinai West

NICU Registered Nurse (RN) - Contract

Location: New York, NY
Specialty: NICU Nursing
Employment Type: Staffing - Supplier Sourced
Contract Length: 13 weeks (89 days ≈ 13 weeks)

Job Summary

Provide safe, competent, quality nursing care to NICU patients and their families, applying nursing theory, research, and evidence-based practice within a collaborative interdisciplinary team.

Key Responsibilities

Patient Care

• Deliver patient care based on Relationship Centered Care and nursing process.
• Assess and evaluate patient needs using critical thinking.
• Integrate assessment and intervention skills in nursing care delivery.
• Collaborate with interdisciplinary teams to develop and evaluate care plans.
• Prioritize patient care 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 care team members.
• Manage assignments within Modified Primary Nursing care delivery model.

Patient Experience

• Role model Relationship Centered Care practices 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 patient perceptions of care.
• Initiate service recovery and escalate concerns appropriately.
• Demonstrate caring, respect, compassion, empathy, and active listening.

Quality and Safety

• Practice safe, patient-centered care and identify barriers to quality.
• Demonstrate clinical skills essential to patient safety.
• Implement process improvement strategies and participate in peer/institutional reviews.
• Collaborate on quality improvement projects, evidence-based practice, and nursing research.
• Follow 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 supply and inventory management with leadership.
• Escalate material or staffing shortages appropriately.
• Use patient-focused, cost-effective approaches to resource utilization.
• 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.
• Project a professional image demonstrating caring, respect, compassion, and empathy.
• Incorporate ethical principles in decision-making.
• Promote scholarship, inquiry, lifelong learning, and innovation.
• Acquire knowledge and skills relevant to role, patient population, and specialty.
• Participate in shared decision-making through specialty councils and committees.

Qualifications

• Current New York State RN License required
• BLS and NRP certifications required
• Minimum 2 years NICU nursing experience required
• Minimum 2 years RN experience required
• Travel experience preferred but not required for Per Diem positions
• EPIC electronic health record experience highly preferred

Unit Information

• Average Unit Census: 18 patients
• Unit Beds: 21
• Staffing Guidelines: Varies
• Typical Schedule: 3 shifts per week, 12 hours each (3x12)

This position offers an opportunity to work in a high-acuity NICU environment with a focus on quality, safety, and patient-centered care within a collaborative healthcare team.