Staff Nurse-NICU

About the role

NYC Health + Hospitals/Jacobi is a 457-bed teaching hospital affiliated with the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. The facility has earned numerous Center of Excellence designations, accreditation, and recognition for its renowned Level 1 Trauma Center, Burn Center, Surgical Intensive Care Unit, regional Stroke Center, Snakebite Treatment Center, Breast Health Center, Bariatric Surgery Center, and Cancer Service. Jacobi also offers the region’s only multi-person hyperbaric chamber, allowing up to nine patients to dive together at one time. Jacobi’s Ambulatory Care Pavilion complements its inpatient acute care, providing staff with a modern, state-of-the-art environment to deliver high-quality service.

At NYC Health + Hospitals, the mission is to deliver high-quality health services without exception. Every employee takes a person-centered approach that exemplifies the ICARE values—Integrity, Compassion, Accountability, Respect, and Excellence—through empathic communication and partnerships between all persons.

Responsibilities

• Under supervision, provides professional nursing care to patients/clients within an assigned unit.
• Diagnoses and treats responses to actual or potential health problems using nursing methods and techniques such as case-finding, health teaching, health counseling, and provision of care supportive to or restorative of life and well-being.
• Identifies and discriminates between physical and psycho-social signs and symptoms.
• Selects and performs therapeutic measures essential for effective execution of the nursing regimen for assigned patients/clients.
• Develops, implements, and continuously evaluates the nursing regimen for assigned patients/clients.
• Records and maintains nursing care plans and progress notes to ensure continuity of care.
• Interprets and reports patient responses to appropriate members of the health team.
• Participates with interdisciplinary health team members to plan a comprehensive patient care program.
• Determines and assigns components of the nursing regimen that may be carried out by allied nursing personnel.
• Provides teaching, guidance, and direction to allied nursing personnel in rendering patient care.
• Participates in defining, implementing, maintaining, and interpreting standards of nursing practice.
• Participates in departmental and interdisciplinary conferences regarding policies and procedures affecting nursing practice.
• Participates in determining conditions, resources, and policies essential to the delivery of nursing care services.
• Participates in development and maintenance of a system for evaluating nursing care, practices, and procedures, including evaluation of nursing personnel.
• Interprets the philosophy and objectives of the agency and Nursing Department to patients/clients, families, and other groups.
• Maintains professional competence through participation in continuing education and other appropriate learning experiences.
• Performs other professional nursing activities as delegated by nursing service administration.

Minimum Qualifications

• A valid New York State license and current registration to practice as a Registered Professional Nurse in New York State.
• Holds, or obtains through facility orientation, a valid and current certification in Basic Life Support (BLS) through the American Heart Association (AHA).

Special Note for Post-Acute Care Assignments

Individuals who have graduated from a nursing education program registered by the New York State Education Department (NYSED) as licensure qualifying for Registered Professional Nurse (RN) and have applied for licensure as an RN may also be considered for appointment. These unlicensed individuals may be employed to practice under the immediate and personal supervision of a New York State licensed, currently registered RN for up to 90 days immediately following graduation, pending receipt of a limited permit, which selected candidates must apply for and receive within the same 90-day period. Once a limited permit is received, individuals can practice nursing under the immediate and personal supervision of a New York State licensed, currently registered RN at a NYC Health + Hospitals health care setting for up to one year from the date of issuance of the limited permit. In addition, must hold or obtain through facility orientation a valid and current certification in Basic Life Support (BLS) through the American Heart Association (AHA).

Department Preferences

• BSN preferred.