Registered Nurse - Pediatrics - Regular time; FTE UTICA, NY

Job Summary

The Registered Nurse promotes and restores patient’s health by completing the nursing process: collaborating with physicians and multidisciplinary team members, providing support to patients, visitors, and families. Responsible for assessing, planning, promoting, and evaluating quality patient care. The Registered Nurse provides teaching to patients, families, and the public. The Registered Nurse will follow the mission, vision, values, policies, and procedures of Mohawk Valley Health System.

• Identify patient care requirements, establish personal rapport with patients and families, and understand the plan of care throughout the patient’s experience.
• Establish a compassionate environment by providing emotional, psychological, and spiritual support to patients, friends, and families.
• Promote patient independence by establishing patient care goals; teach patients, friends, and family to understand the disease process, medications, and self‑care skills, and provide time to answer questions.
• Assure quality care by adhering to therapeutic standards, measuring health outcomes against patient care goals and standards, and making or recommending adjustments to the patient’s needs.
• Determine the appropriate delegation of tasks, consistent with the nurse’s obligation to provide optimum patient care.
• Ensure operation of equipment by completing preventive maintenance requirements, following manufacturer’s instructions, troubleshooting malfunctions, calling for repairs, maintaining equipment inventories, and evaluating equipment and techniques.
• Protect patients and employees by adhering to infection control policies and protocols, medication administration and controlled substance regulations, and utilizing universal precautions.
• Maintain a safe and clean working environment by complying with procedures, rules, and regulations and calling for assistance from health care staff.
• Document patient care service by charting in patients’ medical records accurately and timely in accordance with licensure and regulatory/hospital standards.
• Maintain continuity of care with the nursing team by communicating the plan of care and following through with the multidisciplinary team, ensuring that patient administration of care for all services provided is organized, planned, and delivered.
• Maintain patient confidence and protect operations by keeping information confidential.
• Maintain nursing supplies inventory: checking stock to determine inventory and PAR levels, anticipating needs, placing and expediting orders for supplies, verifying receipt of supplies, and using equipment and supplies.
• Maintain professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops, mandatory in‑services, reviewing professional publications, establishing personal networks, and participating in professional societies.
• Participate in the advancement of the profession through contributions to practice, education, administration, and knowledge development.
• Engage in quality improvement initiatives including continuing education, participation in hospital‑wide and unit‑specific teams, and identifying nursing practice areas for quality improvement and safe outcomes.
• Maintain a cooperative relationship among the healthcare team by communicating information, responding to requests, building rapport, and participating in team problem solving.
• Provide service excellence to patients and their families/visitors that meets or exceeds patient expectations through offering empathetic and compassionate patient‑centered care.
• Professionally manage patient and family/visitor needs and concerns using AIDET and positive service recovery methods.
• Respond to patient requests and make active referrals to subject matter experts/decision makers who can fulfill the patient request.
• Provide culturally sensitive care.
• Meet all MVHS and department competencies and training requirements.
• Perform other duties as required.

• Graduate of an accredited nursing program with an associate’s degree (required).
• Bachelor of Science in Nursing from an accredited nursing program or higher degree (preferred).
• One or more years of experience in a related setting (preferred).

• Current New York State licensure as a Registered Nurse (required).
• Basic Life Support certification (preferred).

Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, religion, national origin, ethnicity, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, etc.), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, protected veteran status, or disability. Successful candidates may be required to undergo a background verification with an external vendor.