Marketing Statement
NYC Health + Hospitals/Gouverneur is a 295-bed Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF) with a 5-Star CMS Quality Rating, located in Manhattan’s Lower East Side neighborhood. Gouverneur offers enhanced, cutting edge healthcare services in a state-of-the-art space. It provides 24-hour care for individuals in need of sub-acute care, long-term care or hospice care which include services like physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech and vocational rehabilitation. Gouverneur is an academic affiliate of NYU School of Medicine and Rusk Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine.
From more than 600 Nursing Homes in New York, Gouverneur ranks #2 in the State, and #1 in New York City, in Newsweek’s Best Nursing Homes in New York 2026; and also received high-performance ratings for Long-term Care and Short-term Rehabilitation from U.S. News & World Report’s Best Nursing Homes in America 2026.
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.
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
How To Apply
If you wish to apply for this position, please apply online by clicking the "Apply for Job" button.
NYC Health + Hospitals/Gouverneur is a 295-bed Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF) with a 5-Star CMS Quality Rating, located in Manhattan’s Lower East Side neighborhood. Gouverneur offers enhanced, cutting edge healthcare services in a state-of-the-art space. It provides 24-hour care for individuals in need of sub-acute care, long-term care or hospice care which include services like physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech and vocational rehabilitation. Gouverneur is an academic affiliate of NYU School of Medicine and Rusk Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine.
From more than 600 Nursing Homes in New York, Gouverneur ranks #2 in the State, and #1 in New York City, in Newsweek’s Best Nursing Homes in New York 2026; and also received high-performance ratings for Long-term Care and Short-term Rehabilitation from U.S. News & World Report’s Best Nursing Homes in America 2026.
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.
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.
- 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).
- Prior nursing experience in long term care or with geriatric population preferred.
How To Apply
If you wish to apply for this position, please apply online by clicking the "Apply for Job" button.
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