Registered Nurse-Emergency Department--Night Shift - Alternate weekend

bNYU Langone Hospital—Suffolkb

NYU Langone Hospital—Suffolk is a 306‑bed medical center that serves residents of eastern Long Island. The facility houses the Knapp Cardiac Care Center—an advanced heart disease diagnostic and treatment center—along with a modern ambulatory surgical pavilion that offers women’s imaging, a sleep laboratory, and bariatric surgery. Our provisional Level 2 Trauma Center provides comprehensive care for patients with traumatic injuries. The Stroke Center is a primary stroke center, staffed by neurologists available 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

Additional outpatient sites include wound care, hemodialysis, and primary care and specialty offices.

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We have an exciting opportunity to join our team as a Registered Nurse—Emergency Department—Full Time—Night Shift, Alternate Weekend—NSG—Emergency Department. In this role, the successful candidate provides professional nursing care in accordance with physician treatment plans to promote the comfort and well‑being of patients and their families. The RN assesses patient needs, plans and implements treatment plans, documents the patient’s progress, works collaboratively with the interdisciplinary health team to meet holistic patient needs, directs other nursing staff, and participates in new employee orientation.

• The registered nurse collects patient health data by involving the patient, family and other health care providers.
• Performs initial assessment based on patient presentation.
• Records 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.
• Analyses the assessment data and identifies actual or potential problems validated with the patient, family and other health care providers.
• Identifies 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 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 patient and performs appropriate patient monitoring.
• Adapts nursing procedures to meet the needs of the individual patient.
• Provides education to the patient and family utilizing the educational assessment.
• Recognizes hazards to patient safety and takes action to maintain a safe environment.
• Works collaboratively with other team members to implement…