Registered Nurse II - Anesthesia Pain Center - 10 Hour Days
About The Position
Cedars-Sinai is seeking a Registered Nurse (RN) for their Anesthesia Pain Center, located in the Mark Goodson Building. This center is part of the Operating Room/Anesthesia/Surgery Services and provides pre-procedure services such as phlebotomy, EKGs, health screenings, and high-risk patient assessments by an anesthesiologist. The RN will be responsible for direct and indirect patient care, including rotating through the Intra-Op RN role as an OR Circulator, and must have procedural experience. The role involves ensuring patient safety, comfort, hygiene, and protection, administering medications, performing procedures like skin tests and phlebotomy, and educating patients on disease prevention and treatment. The nurse will assess patient conditions, plan and implement care, identify learning readiness, and ensure patient safety considering age and developmental factors. The position also involves participating in evidence-based improvement initiatives and collaborating with pharmacists for medication reconciliation.
Requirements
- Associate Degree/College Diploma - minimum
- Bachelor's Degree
- Bachelor's of Science in Nursing (state accredited program) - preferred
- 1 year For external hires, acute care experience in their specialty for new hires.
- RN State License - Upon Hire minimum
- California State RN License
- Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) - Upon Hire minimum
- ACLS Certification from ARC or AHA.
- 1 Year minimum Other Competencies, as required by your specialty unit (ex. ACLS, PALS, fetal heart monitoring)
Nice To Haves
- ANCC Specialty Certification - preferred
- Any ANCC Specialty Certification strongly recommended after 2 years in specialty
Responsibilities
- Provide and document direct and indirect patient care services that ensure the safety, comfort, personal hygiene, and protection of patients.
- Provide patient education on disease prevention and restorative measures.
- Administer medications and therapeutic agents necessary to implement the treatment, disease prevention, or rehabilitative plan of care.
- Perform skin tests, immunizations, phlebotomy, and initiate peripheral venous access.
- Observe and assess signs and symptoms of illness, reactions to medications/treatments, general behavior, and/or general physical condition to determine normal versus abnormal characteristics and initiate emergency procedures when indicated.
- Plan and implement care based on observations, implementing appropriate reporting, referrals, and care in accordance with standardized procedures while providing care to special patient populations and patients with diverse cultural backgrounds.
- Identify patients' readiness for learning and their ability to follow directions/instructions and give consent while assessing patient safety concerns with respect to age and developmental considerations.
- Intervene to provide a safe environment and evaluate the efficiency of interventions for patients.
- Perform pre-op and post-op calls with patients related to Pain Management procedures.
- Reconciliation of medications in collaboration with on-site Pharmacists.
- Provide assistance during in-office procedures.
- Educate patients by phone and in-person regarding procedures, medications, side effects and other aspects of their treatment.
- Provides and accurately documents direct and indirect patient care services that ensures the safety, comfort, personal hygiene, and protection of patients in a timely manner.
- Provides care and patient education on disease prevention and restorative measures.
- Provides direct and indirect care services, including, but not limited to, the administration of medications and therapeutic agents necessary to implement treatment, disease prevention, or rehabilitative plan of care.
- Performs skin tests, immunizations, phlebotomy and the initiation of peripheral venous access.
- Observes signs and symptoms of illness, reactions to medications/treatments, general behavior, and/or general physical condition.
- Demonstrates refined assessment skills, integrating appropriate data sources to assess the signs, symptoms, reactions, behaviors, or general appearance to determine normal versus abnormal characteristics.
- Plans and implements individualized patient care based on observations.
- Implements appropriate reporting, referrals and care in accordance with standardized procedures.
- Initiates emergency procedures when indicated.
- Provides care to special patient populations and patients with diverse cultural backgrounds.
- Identifies patient’s readiness for learning and ability to follow directions/instructions and give consent.
- Demonstrates knowledge and is able to identify and make special adjustments as required to the specific populations needs, including cultural, spiritual, age, psychosocial, communication, gender, sexual orientation, economic, education, family and condition needs.
- Participates in evidence-based improvement initiatives and/or councils/committees that improve nursing outcomes and the work environment in their unit/department.
- Identifies and assesses patient safety concerns with respect to age and developmental considerations.
- Intervenes to provide a safe environment and evaluates effectiveness of intervention for patient.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
