Ambulatory Care Nurse - Cardiology - Garden City

About the role

NYU Langone Hospital—Long Island is a 591-bed university-affiliated medical center, which offers sophisticated diagnostic and therapeutic care in virtually every specialty and subspecialty of medicine and surgery. We are a major regional healthcare resource with a deep commitment to medical education and research, offering a full complement of inpatient and outpatient services.

At NYU Langone Health, equity and inclusion are fundamental values. We strive to be a place where our exceptionally talented faculty, staff, and students of all identities can thrive. We embrace inclusion and individual skills, ideas, and knowledge.

We have an exciting opportunity to join our team as a Ambulatory Care Nurse - Cardiology - Garden City. In this role, the successful candidate will support the coordination, integration, communication, implementation and evaluation of nursing practice and clinical policies and procedures.

Responsibilities

• Performs physical examinations and diagnostic tests
• Collects patient health history
• Records information in electronic health record
• Provides information, counsel, and education to patients and families regarding test results and treatment plans as directed
• Administers medications (including vaccination, IV therapy, oxygen administration), provides comprehensive wound care, and performs phone and in-person patient triage for clinical concerns
• Assesses and monitors patient responses to various treatments, procedures, and anesthesia
• Assesses and interprets patient information, making treatment decisions as appropriate
• Consults with clinical supervisors and licensed providers to determine best treatment plans for patients
• Directs, supervises, and delegates to licensed practical nurses, medical assistants and technicians as needed to support patient flow and efficiency

Clinical Responsibilities

• Supports the coordination, integration, communication, implementation and performance evaluation of nursing practice and clinical policies and procedures
• Ensures clinical compliance with Patient Safety initiatives and reporting
• Supports key quality initiatives (e.g. MIPS, Care gap management) to impact clinical outcome measures
• Demonstrates knowledge of the NYULH Service Standards and incorporates into the performance of responsibilities
• Participates in designated activities related to NYULH clinical standards and regulations of relevant outside agencies

Professional Development

• Engages in self-assessment and participates in activities to promote own professional growth and development
• Seeks, acquires and maintains current nursing knowledge and competence to fulfill responsibilities as FGP Ambulatory Nurse
• Procures and applies new knowledge related to medical treatment and technology
• Utilizes resources to meet individual learning needs and promote professional development in clinical practice

Implementation / Provision of Care

• Executes medical regimens as prescribed by licensed providers
• Assessment: Assess patients, identify unmet patient needs and plan comprehensive care to meet those needs in relation to the patient’s illness, condition or disability
• Case-finding: Identify unidentified co-morbidities or emergent complications and report to the provider so that an intervention may be ordered
• Co-ordination: Integrate care with other health care providers such as respiratory therapists, physical therapists, social workers, physicians, nurse practitioners, dieticians, navigators, and discharge planners

Communication and Message Management

• Ensures clinical in-baskets are managed and encounters closed in a timely manner
• Receives, documents, and reports critical lab values as indicated
• Relays normal and abnormal clinical results, follow up, and explanation to patients, as directed by provider

Health Promotion & Education

• Identifies, through case-finding and critical analysis, patient, family and/or community deviations from health and wellbeing
• Collects patient healthcare data systematically and continuously, using appropriate assessment techniques and instruments
• Analyzes assessment data to determine health status and nursing diagnoses

Patient Experience

• Serves as NYU Langone Health Faculty Group Practice Brand Ambassador by upholding the NYULH Mission, vision and values and promoting excellence in the patient experience, during every encounter
• Drives consistency in every patient and colleague encounter by embodying the core principles of our FGP Service Strategy CARES (Connect, Align, Respond, Ensure, and Sign-Off)

Qualifications

• Current Registered Professional Nurse in New York
• If hired after 9/1/25: Bachelors degree in Nursing from an accredited institution required; Associate Degree in Nursing may be approved contingent upon approval from Nursing Leadership, with a minimum of two years nursing experience in applicable area and enrollment in a baccalaureate nursing program to be completed within 5 years of hire