Job Description

At Cedars-Sinai, the work you do every day directly impacts others' lives. Our passionate and dedicated culture has earned us six Magnet designations for nursing excellence. Join us and see why U.S. News & World Report recognizes us as one of America's Best Hospitals!

Our expert surgeons provide care for a wide range of conditions, from routine to complex. Each year, we perform approximately 32,000 surgeries in 42 operating rooms, with over one-third applying minimally invasive, laparoscopic, and robotic techniques.

Responsibilities:

• Provide direct patient care under the supervision of a physician for inpatient settings.
• Conduct physical exams, collect and document data, and perform diagnostic and therapeutic procedures.
• Order and interpret diagnostic tests, prescribe interventions and medications, and coordinate patient care and discharge.
• Maintain clinical responsibility for applying the Nurse Practitioner (NP) standard of care, including patient care, consultation, education, and other assigned duties.
• Develop and implement patient management plans in collaboration with attending and consulting physicians.
• Facilitate patient discharge and document care within the Epic system. Perform surgical procedures when within scope and privileges.
• Participate in research and educational activities to improve professional development, including continuing education and professional organizations.
• Assess and improve patient care delivery, bringing to bear evidence-based standards and protocols for positive outcomes.
• Initiate emergency resuscitation and stabilization in compliance with hospital safety and infection control regulations.
• Demonstrate procedural experience, particularly in managing drains, wound care, and chest tubes.

Qualifications

Education:

• Master of Nursing Degree.
• Graduate of an accredited Nurse Practitioner program approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing.

Licensure/Certifications Requirements:

• Current, unrestricted CA RN License.
• Current, unrestricted Nurse Practitioner and Furnishing License.
• Certification at the national level as a Nurse Practitioner.
• Current DEA License (schedule 2-5).
• Current ACLS required.

Experience:

• A minimum of 2 years working as a Nurse Practitioner in General Surgery or Emergency General Surgery.

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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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