Job Description

Make a difference every single day!

When the work you do every single day has a crucial impact on the lives of others, every effort, every detail, and every second matters. This shared culture of happiness, passion and dedication pulses through Cedars-Sinai, and it?s just one of the many reasons we?ve achieved our sixth consecutive Magnet designation for nursing excellence. From working with a team of dedicated healthcare professionals to using state-of-the-art facilities, you?ll have everything you need to do something incredible-for yourself, and for others. Join us, and discover why U.S. News & World Report has named us one of America?s Best Hospitals.

At the Cedars-Sinai S. Mark Taper Foundation Imaging Center, we have a wide range of imaging technologies crafted to image the heart and the coronary arteries. Our team of fellowship-trained cardiac imaging physicians specialize in the interpretation of cardiac exams.

The Nurse Practitioner (NP) in the Department of Imaging, is responsible and accountable for the application of the nursing process, supervision of both exercise and pharmacological stress tests, pace maker interrogation for MRI patients and triage of interventional patient clinic operations, consultative services, inter and intradepartmental liaison, education, leadership, and patient care management across the health care continuum from preventative, acute care through discharge.

Summary Of Essential Job Duties:

• Provide guidance, direction, and assistance to the health care team in performing and in maintaining optimum quality of nursing care of patients in the Department of Imaging.
• Incorporate both independent decision-making abilities and collaboration with the board certified/eligible physician to deliver expert care to the patients.
• Participate in creation and preparation of publications and presentations.
• Responsible to the medical director and the chief nursing executive (CNE) and functions as an integral part of the medical team.
• Enhance competency skills through continuing education programs.
• Demonstrate the ability to deliver care to special patient population and those with diverse cultural background.
• Conduct evaluations of cardiac pacemakers.
• Place pacemakers in MRI safe mode to ensure patient safety during scans.
• Monitor patients with pacemakers during MRI exams to maintain safety and proper device functioning.

Qualifications

Education:

• MSN Degree required
• Graduate of an accredited Nurse Practitioner program required.

License/Certification:

• Current State of California Registered Nurse, Nurse Practitioner and Furnishing License.
• National Certification as a Nurse Practitioner.
• Current DEA License.
• ACLS from American Heart Association or American Red Cross.

Experience:

• Two years? experience in an acute cardiac care setting preferred. 
• Experience with Cardiac Implantable Electronic devices.

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