Job Description

Job Description

Description

The Public Health Nurse is a Registered Professional Nurse who provides safe, competent, quality care based on a designated group of patients and significant others in the community health continuum of care.

Responsibilities

• Assists in development, implementation, and evaluation of standards of care and professional practice in collaboration with members of the health care team and in accordance with institutional policies and regulatory agency requirements.
• Assesses and evaluates patient needs for and responses to care rendered and applies sound nursing judgment in patient care management decisions.
• Provides direct, continuous care (where applicable), and management for a caseload of 12 to 15 scheduled patients daily and up to 5 walk in patients through application of the nursing process and approved Department of Nursing and institutional standards.
• Administer vaccines for scheduled patients as well as those prescribed by the PCP in the clinic on a daily basis. These include but are not limited to:
• Influenza vaccine; Pneumonia vaccine; T-dap; Hepatitis A; Hepatitis B; MMR; Varicella; HPV; PPD, Polio; Typhoid; Pain medication, Vitamin B12 injections, Contraceptive and Hormone injections.
• Perform bi-weekly blood pressure checks of patients with a diagnosis of Hypertension uncontrolled by medication or patients who need follow up after being prescribed a new medication.
• Conduct Coumadin Clinic in collaboration with the PCP for patients and adjust medication based on the patient's INR.
• Perform wound care cleaning and dressing wounds and providing patient education on how to change a dressing if there is a need.
• Triage: Assess and evaluate walk in patients based on their complaints and triage them to the appropriate level of care.
• Communication: Manage telephone encounters for the PCP and call center and route them (based on severity of complaints) to the appropriate level of care.
• Collaborate with the physicians in Community Based Outreach Programs (including schools, practice site specific) where families are educated about their health and given a chance to ask questions about the medical field.
• Community Based Health: Health and educational screening which includes Hypertension teaching and Blood Pressure checks performed on the parents, Breast Self-Examination teaching, Diabetic Teaching, and Colon Cancer screening.
• Participate in monthly Mammogram screening with the Community Mammogram Van which comes to specific sites monthly including weekends.
• Coordinate care with Outside agencies such as VNSNY, Labcorp, Quest Diagnostics, Physicians’ Offices, other specialty clinics and Pharmacies.
• Collaborate with the physicians to coordinate care for the Population Health Panel and measure compliance with Federal Mandated Metrics by closing required care gaps.
• Perform Weight Management Education for patients with elevated BMI’s who are candidates for Bariatric Surgery.
• Coordinates patient care activities, based on established priorities, including teaching not limited to:
• Diabetic education: Congestive Heart Failure (CHF) education; New Onset Hypertension education; Venous Stasis Ulcer education; Weight Management education.
• Coordinates patient care activities including huddling, counseling, discharge planning and directs/delegates appropriately to members of the health care team.
• Communicates effectively and professionally with patients, significant others, and members of the health care team about the patient's plan of care.
• Participates in performance improvement, nursing quality, nursing research activities and utilizes same in clinical practice.
• Participates in the design, measurement, and assessment of care related structures, processes, and outcomes to improve the quality of patient care.
• Participates in maintaining a safe, therapeutic, and consumer oriented environment.
• Respects and values each patient's unique, individual needs, beliefs, and diversity and incorporates these into planning and delivery of care.
• Collaborates with members of the health care team, the patient, and significant others to plan and implement the patient's care.
• Coordinates transfer to Emergency Room, Urgent Care, or alternate care facility as needed.
• Conducts post admission discharge phone calls on selected patients.
• Participates in departmental and interdisciplinary committees which determine policy, standards and clinical procedures that affect nursing/PA practice.
• Utilizes and participates in the development of Hospital, Departmental and Care Center standards, interdisciplinary clinical/pathways, policies, procedures and guidelines as well as regulatory agency standards as appropriate resources.
• Participates in the development and implementation of a continuous quality improvement program/processes.
• Treats co-workers, patients and families with dignity and respect.
• Is open and responsive to the diverse backgrounds and experience of other people, and promotes and environment that is sensitive to cultural diversity.
• Performs charge responsibilities, as assigned.

Qualifications

• Bachelor of Science with a major in Nursing.
• Associate Degree or Diploma in Nursing with current matriculation in a BSN program with graduation date within one year of hire will be considered by the Chief Nursing Officer.
• Must have relevant clinical competence in area of nursing practice; new graduates possess current knowledge of the nursing process and its application.
• Evidence of ability to maintain interpersonal relationships, communicate appropriately to others, work effectively to solve problems and confronts issues appropriately.
• Registered Nurse license in New York State with current registration.
• Name: Basic Cardiac Life Support (BCLS) Issuing Agency: AHA.
• Name: Neonatal Resuscitation Program Certificate (Required Depts.: L&D, NICU) Issuing Authority: American Heart Association.
• Name: ACLS (Required Depts.: ED; PACU/ASU; ICUs; Telemetry Units; SDU; IR, Interventional Cardiology (CCL/EP/Echo); L Endoscopy, and APN Adult Oncology) Issuing Authority: American Heart Association.
• Name: PALS (Required Depts.: ED; PACU; IR; Peds ICU, and APNs Pediatric Oncology) Issuing Authority: American Heart Association.
  

Collective bargaining unit: NYSNA-SLW

NYSNA at Mount Sinai St. Luke's and Mount Sinai West, BWI - Medicine Clinical Staff - WST, Mount Sinai West

Employer Description

Strength Through Diversity

The Mount Sinai Health System believes that diversity, equity, and inclusion are key drivers for excellence. We share a common devotion to delivering exceptional patient care. When you join us, you become a part of Mount Sinai’s unrivaled record of achievement, education, and advancement as we revolutionize medicine together. We invite you to participate actively as a part of the Mount Sinai Health System team by:

• Using a lens of equity in all aspects of patient care delivery, education, and research to promote policies and practices to allow opportunities for all to thrive and reach their potential.
• Serving as a role model confronting racist, sexist, or other inappropriate actions by speaking up, challenging exclusionary organizational practices, and standing side-by-side in support of colleagues who experience discrimination.
• Inspiring and fostering an environment of anti-racist behaviors among and between departments and co-workers.

At Mount Sinai, our leaders strive to learn, empower others, and embrace change to further advance equity and improve the well-being of staff, patients, and the organization. We expect our leaders to embrace anti-racism, create a collaborative and respectful environment, and constructively disrupt the status quo to improve the system and enhance care for our patients. We work hard to create an inclusive, welcoming and nurturing work environment where all feel they are valued, belong and are able to advance professionally.

Explore more about this opportunity and how you can help us write a new chapter in our history!

“About the Mount Sinai Health System:

Mount Sinai Health System is one of the largest academic medical systems in the New York metro area, with more than 43,000 employees working across eight hospitals, more than 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 approximately 7,400 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. We are consistently ranked by U.S. News & World Report's Best Hospitals, receiving high "Honor Roll" status, and are highly ranked: No. 1 in Geriatrics and top 20 in 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. U.S. News & World Report’s “Best Children’s Hospitals” ranks Mount Sinai Kravis Children's Hospital among the country’s best in several pediatric specialties. The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai is ranked No. 14 nationwide in National Institutes of Health funding and in the 99th percentile in research dollars per investigator according to the Association of American Medical Colleges. Newsweek’s “The World’s Best Smart Hospitals” ranks The Mount Sinai Hospital as No. 1 in New York and in the top five globally, and Mount Sinai Morningside in the top 20 globally.

The Mount Sinai Health System is an equal opportunity employer. We comply with applicable Federal civil rights laws and does not discriminate, exclude, or treat people differently on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, religion, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression. We are passionately committed to addressing racism and its effects on our faculty, staff, students, trainees, patients, visitors, and the communities we serve. Our goal is for Mount Sinai to become an anti-racist health care and learning institution that intentionally addresses structural racism.”

EOE Minorities/Women/Disabled/Veterans

Compensation

The Mount Sinai Health System (MSHS) provides a salary range to comply with the New York City Law on Salary Transparency in Job Advertisements. The salary range for the role is $67.2682 - $67.2682 Hourly. Actual salaries depend on a variety of factors, including experience, education, and hospital need. The salary range or contractual rate listed does not include bonuses/incentive, differential pay or other forms of compensation or benefits.

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Hourly pay, Full time, Traineeship, Local area,

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