Staff Nurse-PAC

About NYC Health + Hospitals

NYC Health + Hospitals/Carter is a state-of-the-art facility with a 4-Star CMS Quality Rating, equipped with 164-bed Skilled Nursing Facility and 201-bed Long-Term Acute Care Hospital (LTACH) based in Harlem. Carter excels at providing quality medical, sub-acute, rehabilitative, and long-term specialty services for individuals in need of medically-complex care like ventilator weaning and onsite-dialysis. Every employee takes a person-centered approach that exemplifies our ICARE values (Integrity, Compassion, Accountability, Respect, and Excellence) through empathic communication and partnership.

From more than 600 Nursing Homes in New York, Carter ranks #4 in Newsweek’s Best Nursing Homes in New York2026 ; and also received a high-performance rating for Long-Term Care and Short-term Rehabilitation from U. S. News & World Report’s Best Nursing Homes in America 2026 . In 2025, Carter was awarded the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Pathway to Excellence with Distinction Award, the nation’s first long-term facility to receive it.

At NYC Health + Hospitals, our mission is to deliver high quality care health services, without exception. Every employee takes a person-centered approach that exemplifies the ICARE values (Integrity, Compassion, Accountability, Respect, and Excellence) through empathic communication and partnerships between all persons.

Work Shifts

7:00 A. M – 3:30 P. M

Required to work weekends and Holidays

Duties & Responsibilities

Purpose of Position

Under supervision, provides professional nursing care to patients/clients within an assigned unit. Diagnoses and treats responses to actual or potential health problems by means of nursing methods and techniques such as case-finding, health teaching, health counseling and provision of care supportive to and restorative of life and well-being.

Examples of Typical Tasks

• Identifies and discriminates between physical and psycho-social signs and symptoms. Selects and performs those therapeutic measures which are essential for effective execution of the nursing regimen for assigned patients/clients.

• Develops, implements and continuously evaluates the nursing regimen for assigned patients/clients.

• Records and maintains nursing care plans and progress notes on patients/clients to ensure continuity of care.

• Interprets and reports responses of patients/clients to appropriate members of the health team.

• Participates with interdisciplinary health team members to plan a comprehensive patient care program.

• Determines and assigns those components of the nursing regimen which may be carried out by allied nursing personnel.

• Provides teaching, guidance and direction to allied nursing personnel in rendering patient care.

• Participates in defining, implementing, maintaining and interpreting standards of nursing practice.

• Participates in departmental and interdisciplinary conferences pertaining to policies and procedures affecting nursing practice.

• Participates in determining conditions, resources and policies essential to the delivery of nursing care services.

• Participates in development and maintenance of a system of evaluation of nursing care, practices and procedures, including evaluation of nursing personnel.

• Interprets philosophy and objectives of agency and Nursing Department to patients/clients, families and other groups.

• Maintains professional competence through participation in continuing education and other appropriate learning experiences.

• Performs other professional nursing activities as delegated by nursing service administration.

Minimum Qualifications

• A valid New York State license and current registration to practice as a Registered Professional Nurse in New York State; and

• Holds, or obtains through facility orientation, a valid and current certification in Basic Life Support (BLS) through the American Heart Association (AHA).

Assignment Qualification Preference

• Prior nursing experience in long term care or with geriatric population preferred.

Additional Salary Compensation

In addition to base compensation, you may also receive the following based on collective bargaining:

An annual education differential if you currently possess an appropriate degree in nursing or an allied health discipline from an accredited college or university, as listed below:

• Bachelors in allied health discipline = $900

• Masters in allied health discipline = $1,200

• Bachelors of Science in Nursing (BSN) = $1,800

• Masters of Science in Nursing (MSN) = $2,000

• Doctorate in Education, Nursing Practice or PhD in Nursing (DNP) = $2,500

An annual certification differential ranging from $1,878 up to $4,878 if you currently hold appropriate certifications that are nationally recognized in the discipline or area of specialization for which you are employed.

An annual nursing experience differential ranging from $987 up to $8,190 for up to 10 years of experience if you have outside nursing experience as a Staff Nurse.

Benefits

NYC Health and Hospitals offers a competitive benefits package that includes:

• Comprehensive Health Benefits for employees hired to work 20+ hrs. per week

• Retirement Savings and Pension Plans

• Paid Holidays and Vacation in accordance with employees' Collectively bargained contracts

• Loan Forgiveness Programs for eligible employees

• College tuition discounts and professional development opportunities

• College Savings Program

• Union Benefits for eligible titles

• Multiple employee discounts programs

• Commuter Benefits Programs

How To Apply

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