Job Description

The Cedars-Sinai Neuroscience Critical Care Unit (Neuro-ICU) is a specialized, 24-bed facility within the Saperstein building. Our team treats critically ill neurological patients with conditions such as stroke, brain injury, seizures, and hemorrhage.

We are seeking a dedicated and skilled Nurse Practitioner to join our Neuro ICU team at Cedars-Sinai. As a teaching hospital, we are committed to education and collaboration, working closely with residents and fellows to provide a comprehensive learning environment. The Cedars-Sinai Neuroscience Critical Care Unit (Neuro-ICU) is a specialized, 24-bed facility within the Saperstein building, treating critically ill neurological patients with conditions like stroke, brain injury, seizures, and hemorrhage. Utilizing advanced monitoring and a multidisciplinary team, including neurointensivists, NPs, pharmacists, residents, and fellows, we are a leading Level 1 Trauma & Comprehensive Stroke Center.

Key Responsibilities

• Clinical Management: Provide comprehensive care to Neuro ICU patients, managing their critical care needs through the healthcare continuum, including preventative, acute, discharge, and ambulatory care.
• Nursing Process: Responsible for the application and supervision of the nursing process, including clinical practice, research involvement, consultative services, and patient care management.
• Collaboration and Leadership: Incorporate independent decision-making and collaboration with physicians to deliver expert care. Provide leadership in patient management across the healthcare continuum.
• Patient Care: Provide individualized care in line with CSHS philosophies, Nursing Standards of Care, and departmental policies. Deliver care sensitive to age, developmental milestones, and cultural diversity.
• Diagnostic and Therapeutic Procedures: Perform appropriate procedures such as venipuncture, arterial puncture, lumbar puncture, and more, following standardized protocols. Document results and follow-up as necessary.
• Education and Mentorship: Provide patient and family education, support staff in clinical practices, and mentor graduate Nursing students. Participate in and lead committee work, influencing clinical policy and practice standards.
• Program Development: Develop and supervise programs aligning with patient needs and organizational goals. Analyze and implement new skills, technologies, and equipment for clinical efficacy and safety.
• Clinical Judgment: Educate and mentor staff on clinical judgment to promote positive patient outcomes. Address ethical dilemmas in clinical practice, providing direction and support to nursing staff.

Qualifications

Education:

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

Experience:

• One (1) plus years? experience as Nurse Practitioner managing Neuro ICU patients highly preferred.

Licensure/Certifications Requirements:

• Current CA RN License.
• Nurse Practitioner and Furnishing License.
• National Certification as a Nurse Practitioner.
• Current DEA License (schedule 2-5)

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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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