RN license Current license to practice as a Registered Professional Nurse in New York State, required.
Term
Permanent
Do you qualify?
License
Registered Professional NurseCurrent license to practice as a Registered Professional Nurse in New York State, required.Check your license
Education
Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing (BSN)Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing (BSN) required.
Experience
4-6 years of nursing experience4-6 years of nursing experience and 0-2 years of leadership/management experience, required.
Experience
0-2 years of leadership/management experience
Preferred
Certification
Specialized certificationsSpecialized certifications, as needed.
What it pays
Pay reviews
base salary determined by location, specialty, service line, years of relevant experience, education, credentials, negotiated contracts, budget and internal equity
manages and leads team members, operations and patient care activities during assigned shift1.Manages and leads team members, operations and patient care activities within a patient care unit during assigned shift.
Day to day
collaborates with team members and nursing management in developing patient care approaches2.Collaborates with team members and nursing management in the development of methods, techniques and analytical approach to patient care.
Day to day
guides team members toward achieving department objectives3.Communicates, builds consensus, and guides team members toward achieving department objectives.
Day to day
promotes and maintains patient and family centered care in a healing environment4.Promotes and maintains high quality patient and family centered care in a healing environment.
Day to day
creates a work environment encouraging respect, engagement, accountability and optimal patient outcomes5.Creates a professional work environment that encourages team member respect, engagement, accountability and optimal patient outcomes.
Day to day
promotes appreciative inquiry and evidence-based, ethical and compassionate practice6.Promotes appreciative inquiry and evidence-based, ethical and compassionate practice.
Day to day
provides direction and guidance to unit team members during assigned shift7.Provides direction and guidance to patient care unit team members during assigned shift.
Day to day
may conduct performance reviews and provide input into hiring, promotions and corrective actions8.May conduct performance reviews and provide input into hiring, promotions and corrective actions.
Day to day
serves as role model for clinical, educational and leadership standards9.Serves as a role model for standards of professional practice (clinical, educational and leadership).
Day to day
educates team members in new and existing department procedures and systems10.Educates team members in new and existing department procedures and systems (information systems, fiscal responsibility, etc.).
Day to day
provides input on department budget allocations11.Provides input on department budget allocations to nursing management.
Day to day
ensures adherence to established care delivery model12.Ensures adherence to the established care delivery model, using knowledge of scope and standards of practice.
Day to day
facilitates continual regulatory and hospital standards compliance13.Faciliates continual patient care unit compliance with the JC, CMS, New York State, DOH, Public Health Law, HIPPA regulations and System, hospital and department standards.
Day to day
demonstrates core clinical competencies to supervise and provide direct patient care14.Demonstrates core clinical competencies for patient population of oversight in order to supervise and provide direct patient care.
Day to day
maintains current knowledge of scope, practice standards, healthcare legislation, and population health15.Maintains current knowledge of scope and standards of practice, healthcare legislation, and population health.
Day to day
interprets policies, procedures and technical methods for team members16.Interprets policies, procedures and technical methods for team members.
Day to day
identifies opportunities and recommends evidence-based improvements to care delivery and team effectiveness17.Identifies opportunities and makes recommendations that improve patient care delivery and team effectiveness using evidence-based strategies and solutions.
Manages team members, operations, and patient care activities of a patient care unit during assigned shift. Maintains a professional work environment that supports delivery of high-quality patient and family centered care.
Job Responsibility
Manages and leads team members, operations and patient care activities within a patient care unit during assigned shift.
Collaborates with team members and nursing management in the development of methods, techniques and analytical approach to patient care.
Communicates, builds consensus, and guides team members toward achieving department objectives.
Promotes and maintains high quality patient and family centered care in a healing environment.
Creates a professional work environment that encourages team member respect, engagement, accountability and optimal patient outcomes.
Promotes appreciative inquiry and evidence-based, ethical and compassionate practice.
Provides direction and guidance to patient care unit team members during assigned shift.
May conduct performance reviews and provide input into hiring, promotions and corrective actions.
Serves as a role model for standards of professional practice (clinical, educational and leadership).
Educates team members in new and existing department procedures and systems (information systems, fiscal responsibility, etc.).
Provides input on department budget allocations to nursing management.
Ensures adherence to the established care delivery model, using knowledge of scope and standards of practice.
Faciliates continual patient care unit compliance with the JC, CMS, New York State, DOH, Public Health Law, HIPPA regulations and System, hospital and department standards.
Demonstrates core clinical competencies for patient population of oversight in order to supervise and provide direct patient care.
Maintains current knowledge of scope and standards of practice, healthcare legislation, and population health.
Interprets policies, procedures and technical methods for team members.
Identifies opportunities and makes recommendations that improve patient care delivery and team effectiveness using evidence-based strategies and solutions.
Performs related duties as required. All responsibilities noted here are considered essential functions of the job under the Americans with Disabilities Act. Duties not mentioned here, but considered related are not essential functions.
Job Qualification
Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing (BSN) required. Current license to practice as a Registered Professional Nurse in New York State, required. Specialized certifications, as needed. 4-6 years of nursing experience and 0-2 years of leadership/management experience, required.
*Additional Salary Detail
The salary range and/or hourly rate listed is a good faith determination of potential base compensation that may be offered to a successful applicant for this position at the time of this job advertisement and may be modified in the future. When determining a team member's base salary and/or rate, several factors may be considered as applicable (e.g., location, specialty, service line, years of relevant experience, education, credentials, negotiated contracts, budget and internal equity).
Neighborhoods+Nurses and other young professionals commonly rent in Upper Manhattan—Washington Heights, Inwood, and Hamilton Heights—plus Astoria in Queens and Brooklyn’s Sunset Park, Flatbush, Bay Ridge, Bensonhurst, and Bed-Stuy, where listed average rents run about $2,150–$3,000 versus a much higher Manhattan core. Washington Heights and Inwood sit on the Hudson with Dominican heritage, Art Deco stock, and roughly 30-minute trains to Midtown; Hamilton Heights’ A/D express from 125th Street reaches Columbus Circle in about 20 minutes. Astoria offers a livelier, still-cheaper street scene with East River access; Bay Ridge and Bayside feel more suburban; Sunset Park mixes 8th Avenue Chinatown and 5th Avenue Latin American life. If city rents still bite, Jersey City (PATH), Newark, Yonkers, Great Neck, Stamford, Bronxville, and Rye are the named 28–60 minute backups, with Hudson Valley Putnam/Dutchess towns under about 90 minutes to Grand Central.
Nurses and other young professionals commonly rent in Upper Manhattan—Washington Heights, Inwood, and Hamilton Heights—plus Astoria in Queens and Brooklyn’s Sunset Park, Flatbush, Bay Ridge, Bensonhurst, and Bed-Stuy, where listed average rents run about $2,150–$3,000 versus a much higher Manhattan core. Washington Heights and Inwood sit on the Hudson with Dominican heritage, Art Deco stock, and roughly 30-minute trains to Midtown; Hamilton Heights’ A/D express from 125th Street reaches Columbus Circle in about 20 minutes.
Astoria offers a livelier, still-cheaper street scene with East River access; Bay Ridge and Bayside feel more suburban; Sunset Park mixes 8th Avenue Chinatown and 5th Avenue Latin American life. If city rents still bite, Jersey City (PATH), Newark, Yonkers, Great Neck, Stamford, Bronxville, and Rye are the named 28–60 minute backups, with Hudson Valley Putnam/Dutchess towns under about 90 minutes to Grand Central.
Getting around+Hospital-bound trips inside the city mostly run on the subway: the A/D express from 125th Street to Columbus Circle is about 20 minutes, Harlem’s 116th Street station is 20–25 minutes to Midtown West and about 35 minutes to Union Square, and Inwood is roughly 30 minutes to Rockefeller Center and Times Square. PATH and NJ Transit from Jersey City take 20–60 minutes depending on neighborhood and whether you feed Hoboken or Secaucus; Newark Penn, Broad Street, and Liberty stations average 20–30 minutes by rail (driving 40–45 minutes off-peak, 1–1.5+ hours in rush). Metro-North from Bronxville is about 28 minutes to Grand Central; Rye, Harrison, Larchmont, and Mamaroneck 30–40 minutes; Stamford and Norwalk about an hour; LIRR from Bayside under 30 minutes. Driving is slower and, as of January 5, 2025, congestion-priced; the Seastreak Ferry from Atlantic Highlands/Highlands reaches lower Manhattan in about 30 minutes ($720 for a 40-trip book). Locals treat the subway as the default and a car as optional inside the five boroughs.
Hospital-bound trips inside the city mostly run on the subway: the A/D express from 125th Street to Columbus Circle is about 20 minutes, Harlem’s 116th Street station is 20–25 minutes to Midtown West and about 35 minutes to Union Square, and Inwood is roughly 30 minutes to Rockefeller Center and Times Square. PATH and NJ Transit from Jersey City take 20–60 minutes depending on neighborhood and whether you feed Hoboken or Secaucus; Newark Penn, Broad Street, and Liberty stations average 20–30 minutes by rail (driving 40–45 minutes off-peak, 1–1.5+ hours in rush).
Metro-North from Bronxville is about 28 minutes to Grand Central; Rye, Harrison, Larchmont, and Mamaroneck 30–40 minutes; Stamford and Norwalk about an hour; LIRR from Bayside under 30 minutes. Driving is slower and, as of January 5, 2025, congestion-priced; the Seastreak Ferry from Atlantic Highlands/Highlands reaches lower Manhattan in about 30 minutes ($720 for a 40-trip book).
Locals treat the subway as the default and a car as optional inside the five boroughs.
Outdoors+Central Park’s 843 acres—zoo, carousel, Bethesda Fountain, reservoir, Wollman Rink pickleball and ice skating, sledding on Pilgrim Hill and Cedar Hill after six-plus inches of snow—function as the city’s default backyard. Prospect Park (summer concerts and festivals, zoo, rink, carousel) sits just north of Flatbush; Brooklyn Bridge Park, Riverside Park, Washington Square Park, the High Line, Little Island, and Governors Island are named local favorites. Riverbank State Park (28 acres atop a treatment plant) gives Hamilton Heights Hudson views; Inwood holds one of the city’s last natural forests; Sunset Park overlooks the Statue of Liberty and Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge. Further out: Branch Brook Park in Newark, Calf Pasture Beach and the Sheffield Island Ferry in Norwalk, and Sandy Hook National Recreation Area near Red Bank. The Bronx Zoo and New York Botanical Garden are standard day trips; summer thunderstorms make an umbrella standard kit.
Central Park’s 843 acres—zoo, carousel, Bethesda Fountain, reservoir, Wollman Rink pickleball and ice skating, sledding on Pilgrim Hill and Cedar Hill after six-plus inches of snow—function as the city’s default backyard. Prospect Park (summer concerts and festivals, zoo, rink, carousel) sits just north of Flatbush; Brooklyn Bridge Park, Riverside Park, Washington Square Park, the High Line, Little Island, and Governors Island are named local favorites.
Riverbank State Park (28 acres atop a treatment plant) gives Hamilton Heights Hudson views; Inwood holds one of the city’s last natural forests; Sunset Park overlooks the Statue of Liberty and Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge. Further out: Branch Brook Park in Newark, Calf Pasture Beach and the Sheffield Island Ferry in Norwalk, and Sandy Hook National Recreation Area near Red Bank.
The Bronx Zoo and New York Botanical Garden are standard day trips; summer thunderstorms make an umbrella standard kit.
New York is the rare U.S. city where a nurse can leave a 12-hour shift and still find bagels, Veselka’s 24-hour pierogi, or a Broadway understudy—density is the point. The tradeoff is cost and space: citywide rents run about $3,930 to over $5,000, so newcomers cluster in Washington Heights, Inwood, Hamilton Heights, Astoria, Sunset Park, Flatbush, or Bay Ridge, where $2,150–$3,000 buys pre-war walk-ups, Dominican and Caribbean streets, and 20–30 minute A/D, LIRR, or PATH rides toward Midtown hospitals. Skip the car inside the boroughs (congestion pricing started 2025); Jersey City, Newark, Bronxville, and Rye are 28–60 minute rail or Seastreak ferry backups. Central Park’s 843 acres, Prospect Park, the High Line, and Riverbank State Park are the backyard. Expect four sharp seasons, summer storms, tiny apartments, block-by-block safety, and a first-year neighborhood hop. Food, 24/7 transit, and 1,700 parks keep people; rent and noise push them out.
