Graduate Nurse Fulltime Nights

Registered Nurse

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. Core Job Responsibilities include identifying patient care requirements, establishing personal rapport with patients and families, understanding of plan of care throughout the patient's experience, establishing a compassionate environment by providing emotional, psychological, and spiritual support to patients, friends and families, promoting patient independence by establishing patient care goals, teaching patient, friends and family to understand disease process, medications, and self-care skills, providing time to answer questions, assuring quality care by adhering to therapeutic standards, making or recommending adjustments to the patient's needs, ensuring operation of equipment, protecting patients, employees by adhering to infection control policies and protocols, utilizing universal precautions, maintaining a safe and clean working environment, documenting patient care service, maintaining continuity of care with the nursing team, maintaining patient confidence and protecting operations, maintaining nursing supplies inventory, maintaining professional and technical knowledge, engaging in quality improvement initiatives, maintaining a cooperative relationship among the healthcare team, providing service excellence to patients and their families/visitors, professionally managing patient and family/visitor needs and concerns, responding to patient requests, making active referrals, providing culturally sensitive care, meeting all MVHS and department competencies and training requirements, and performing other duties as required.

Education/Experience Requirements include a graduate of an accredited nursing program with an associate's degree, one or more years of experience in a related setting, and current New York State licensure as a Registered Nurse. Basic Life Support certification is preferred.

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