Staff Nurse - Radiation Oncology- Mount Sinai West- Full Time Days (5 days/week)

About the Role

Responsible for the care activities and goal achievements of assigned patients by assessing, diagnosing, planning, and intervening in actual or potential health problems and evaluating patient's response to care. Provides health teaching and discharge planning. Acts as a member of a designated care team, collaborating, coordinating, and guiding team members in planning patient care activities. Demonstrates behaviors that reflect the scientific knowledge, judgment, and teaching skills of a professional nurse.

Responsibilities

• Conducts Nursing assessment based on interview, examination, observation, and review of records of the patient.
• Ensures that the patient's progress, or lack of progress, is reflected in progress notes and in the revised care plans.
• Discharge planning consistent with the patient's status and reflects inter-departmental and inter-agency communication.
• Communicates information to the patient based on the patient's level of awareness and readiness to learn.
• Supports orientation of new staff members by observing professional behaviors, providing feedback, and acting as a preceptor, role model, and resource person.
• Functions as a professional role model and mentor for students and volunteers.
• Patient care assignments reflecting an awareness of patient needs and skill level of personnel.
• Organization of provision of care to meet priority needs of patients and unit.
• Communicates condition of patients and unit requiring additional intervention to the leadership person in the relevant discipline.
• Participates in the development of other staff members.
• Communicates with peers in an appraisal of practice as it relates to self and other nursing personnel.
• Reflects a collaborative effort in meeting the needs of the patient and unit through communication and nursing actions.
• Provides direction, assistance, and support.
• Assumes accountability and responsibility for completion and quality of assigned tasks.
• Identifies and communicates to immediate supervisor the need for further staff education.
• Reflects awareness of authorities and responsibilities of nursing management levels by communication with nursing leadership.
• Seeks and utilizes nursing leaders as role models and resource persons.
• Reflects collaborative effort in meeting patient and unit needs by communication with other disciplines.
• Reflects the philosophy, goals, and objectives of the Department of Nursing and the Hospital Center in communication and interaction with families and other groups.

Qualifications

• Graduation from an accredited Nursing program.
• Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing (BSN).
• Associate’s Degree in Nursing (ADN) RN who is matriculated in a BSN Program with a graduation date within the year.
• Any Associate’s Degree in Nursing (ADN) RN with Nursing experience must be approved by the CNO.
• Documented previous experience or educational preparation to support credentials. Special skills/experience may be required in specialized areas.
• 1 year of oncology RN experience required.
• Basic Cardiac Life Support (BCLS) certification from the American Heart Association.

About the Organization

The Mount Sinai Health System is one of the largest academic medical systems in the New York metro area, with more than 48,000 employees working across eight hospitals, over 400 outpatient practices, more than 300 labs, a school of nursing, and a leading school of medicine and graduate education. Mount Sinai advances health for all people, everywhere, by taking on the most complex health care challenges of our time — discovering and applying new scientific learning and knowledge; developing safer, more effective treatments; educating the next generation of medical leaders and innovators; and supporting local communities by delivering high-quality care to all who need it.

Through the integration of its hospitals, labs, and schools, Mount Sinai offers comprehensive health care solutions from birth through geriatrics, leveraging innovative approaches such as artificial intelligence and informatics while keeping patients’ medical and emotional needs at the center of all treatment. The Health System includes more than 9,000 primary and specialty care physicians; 13 joint-venture outpatient surgery centers throughout the five boroughs of New York City, Westchester, Long Island, and Florida; and more than 30 affiliated community health centers.

Mount Sinai is consistently ranked by U.S. News & World Report's Best Hospitals, receiving high "Honor Roll" status, and is highly ranked in specialties such as Geriatrics, Cardiology/Heart Surgery, Diabetes/Endocrinology, Gastroenterology/GI Surgery, Neurology/Neurosurgery, Orthopedics, Pulmonology/Lung Surgery, Rehabilitation, and Urology. New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai is ranked No. 12 in Ophthalmology, and Mount Sinai Kravis Children's Hospital is ranked among the country’s best in several pediatric specialties. The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai is ranked No. 11 nationwide in National Institutes of Health funding.

Pay

The salary range for this role is $64.2353 per hour. Actual salaries depend on a variety of factors, including experience, education, and operational need.