Staff Nurse-PAC

About NYC Health + Hospitals

NYC Health + Hospitals/Coler is a certified 815-bed nursing facility with a 5-Star CMS Quality Rating located on Roosevelt Island, nestled between Manhattan and Queens. Coler offers long term and subacute care, rehabilitation, and a dedicated memory care unit, comprised of 150 beds featuring an acclaimed music and memory program. The facility features a robust rehabilitation therapy program with expansive gym space for residents. Coler also offers full time physician staff, psychiatry, dental services, an onsite 8-chair dialysis den for hemodialysis, and on-site medical clinics to meet the clinical needs of its residents.

From more than 600 Nursing Homes in New York, Coler ranks #10 in Newsweek's Best Nursing Homes in New York 2026; earned 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; and received a 2024 Silver Beacon Award for Memory Care.

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

3:30 P.M - 11:45 P.M

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:

1. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

11. Participates in development and maintenance of a system of evaluation of nursing care, practices and

procedures, including evaluation of nursing personnel.

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

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

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

Minimum Qualifications

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

2. 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:

1. 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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