Registered Nurse- Critical Care Float Nights

NYU Langone Hospital—Suffolk is a 306-bed medical center, providing care to residents of eastern Long Island. The hospital facility is home to the Knapp Cardiac Care Center—an advanced heart disease diagnostic and treatment facility—as well as a modern ambulatory surgical pavilion with specialized services including women's imaging, a sleep laboratory, and bariatric surgery. Our provisional Level 2 Trauma Center delivers comprehensive and specialized care for patients with traumatic injuries.

The Stroke Center at NYU Langone Hospital—Suffolk is designated by the New York State Department of Health as a Primary Stroke Center, with expert neurologists available to provide treatment 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Additionally, NYU Langone Hospital—Suffolk has multiple outpatient sites, including an outpatient wound care center, a hemodialysis center, and various primary care and specialty offices.

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We have an exciting opportunity to join our team as a Registered Nurse
- Critical Care Float
- Full Time, Nights. In this role, the successful candidate executes professional nursing care in accordance with physician treatment plans in order to provide for the comfort and well-being of patients and their family or support system. In doing so, assesses the patient's needs, plans and implements the treatment plan, observes and evaluates the patient's progress and documents pertinent observations. Works collaboratively with the interdisciplinary health team to meet the holistic needs of the patient.

Directs the delivery of nursing care by the other members of the nursing team. Participates in the orientation process of new employees.

• The registered nurse collects patient health data by involving the patient, family and other health care providers
• Performs initial assessment based on patient's presentation
• Records relevant data on the nursing component of the Interdisciplinary Admission Assessment
• Demonstrates awareness of the special needs of each age group or culture served as well as those patients with disabilities
• Ongoing assessments are performed as established by department policy and as warranted by the patient's response
• Incorporates discharge planning into the admission process
• Analyzes the assessment data in determining problem identification. Identifies expected outcomes individualized to the patient
• Demonstrates the ability to combine theoretical knowledge and clinical expertise to anticipate and plan for the identified patient and family care needs
• Analyzes the assessment data and identifies actual or potential problems that are validated with the patient, family and other health care providers
• Identifies any cultural, ethnic, and spiritual aspects of patient/family dynamics related to the patient's care
• Recognizes the patient's comfort/pain management needs that may impact on the plan of care and desired outcome
• Identifies actual or potential knowledge deficits for the patient and/or family
• Communicates expected outcomes to the patient, family and other health care providers to promote continuity of care
• Develops a plan of care that prescribes interventions to attain expected outcome
• Collaborates with the patient, family and appropriate healthcare providers in developing the plan of care
• Formulates a family centered plan of care consistent with the assessment of the patient's needs and the physician's treatment plan;
  Integrates identified cultural, ethnic and spiritual aspects of care into the plan
• Incorporates teaching and learning principles in the plan of care based on the identified learning needs and developmental level
• Assists the patient and family in identifying and securing services to address health related needs
• Communicates the plan of care to the patient, family and other health care providers to promote continuity of care
• Documents the initial plan of care and provides updates as required
• Establishes realistic goals, sets appropriate priorities and uses time efficiently
• Implements the plan of care for each…