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Job Description

Are you seeking an opportunity to demonstrate your positive interpersonal skills and high degree of respect for patients, physicians, and coworkers? Would you like to put your outstanding people skills to work in an environment dedicated to helping others? We would love to hear from you!

The Clinical Nurse, Procedural provides individualized and specialized nursing care to patients in accordance with physician's orders, recognized nursing techniques, legal aspects of current nurse practice within the state of California and Center policies and procedures. Functions collaboratively with physicians and staff, exhibiting teamwork characteristics. Demonstrates initiative, insight and good judgment in decision-making.

• Evaluates and completes an assessment of patient needs to provide supportive care before, during and after procedures.
• Maintains accurate and complete medical records and assists with completing the procedure log.
• Clearly and accurately communicates pertinent information to physicians and co-workers.
• Investigates and intervenes in problem situations, reporting information to supervisor as appropriate and providing complete and accurate documentation.
• Follows Standard Precautions and uses personal protective equipment as appropriate and required.
• Assists in maintaining an adequate inventory of supplies and medications.
• Assists the physician in the performance of procedures.
• Responsible for maintaining the sterility and cleanliness of the procedure room and for setting up and testing the functionality of endoscopy equipment prior to the start of the procedure.
• Escalates situations beyond capability or job responsibilities to appropriate personnel. Reports and communicates errors
• May be cross trained to provide pre and post-operative nursing care. Patients may require pre-operative nursing care prior to setting up and working in the procedure room. Assistance in the post-operative care area may also be required. Once trained to work in pre-and post-operative area may be assigned to cover lunches, breaks or full shifts as needed.
• Other duties as assigned

Qualifications

Job Qualifications

Education

• Associate's Degree in Nursing required
• Bachelor's Degree in Nursing preferred

Experience

• 2 years of experience in Nursing required

License & Certifications

• Valid CA RN license required
• Valid ACLS certification

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About Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

Providing healthcare for more than 100 years, Cedars-Sinai has evolved into one of the most dynamic and highly renowned medical centers in the world. Along with caring for patients, Cedars-Sinai is a hub for biomedical research and a training center for future physicians and other healthcare professionals. This attracts exceptional talent to Cedars-Sinai, including world-renowned physician-scientists who seek a place where they can both conduct research and see patients--the ideal formula for discovery and its translation into cures. Our patients benefit from access to doctors at the top of their fields, and our researchers have an ideal community in which to study the impact of healthcare challenges, and reflect that knowledge in their research. The greater Los Angeles area in which Cedars-Sinai resides possesses unparalleled cultural and ethnic diversity which offers outstanding opportunities for translational and clinical research and a dynamic environment for medical education.Although community based, Cedars-Sinai is a major teaching hospital affiliated with the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Cedars-Sinai has highly competi...tive graduate medical education programs in more than 50 specialty and subspecialty areas, a graduate program in biomedical sciences and translational medicine, a clinical scholars program directed towards junior physicians with aspirations to become clinical scientists, and post graduate training opportunities.There are more than 250 full-time faculty members at Cedars-Sinai. The voluntary medical staff, comprised of more than 2,200 specialty board-certified or board-qualified physicians, represent all of the specialties and subspecialties and collaborate with full-time medical staff in the teaching responsibilities of the graduate medical education programs.

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