Registered Nurse II - Therapeutic Apheresis - 10 Hour Days
About The Position
Are you ready to bring your expert clinical competencies to a world-class facility recognized as one of the top ten in the country? Do you have a passion for the highest quality and patient happiness? Then please respond to this dynamic opportunity available with one of the best places to work in Southern California! We would be happy to hear from you. The Therapeutic Apheresis Unit is a patient care unit embedded in the Transfusion Medicine Division. The unit provides excellent patient care by providing the following procedures such as therapeutic plasma exchange, red cell exchange, photopheresis, stem cell collections, and more. The gift of blood helps save lives, and the demand for blood and blood products is great. Every 2 seconds, someone in the U.S. needs blood, and more than 50,000 units of blood are needed each year at Cedars-Sinai alone. Our Blood Donor Services team knows how to make the donors' experience as comfortable as possible and respects their time and compassion. We take that extra step to make sure blood donors get the highest-quality experience possible. Summary of Duties: The Therapeutic Apheresis RN functions under supervision by charge nurse or senior licensed technical/clinical personnel in the Therapeutic Apheresis Unit and Blood Donor area.
Responsibilities
- Responsible for performing and monitoring therapeutic apheresis procedures, which involve separating and removing blood components to treat patients with various medical conditions. This includes managing apheresis machines, monitoring patient vital signs, educating patients, and ensuring proper documentation
- Collecting whole blood from voluntary blood donors and performing blood component collection in house and on mobile blood drive sites
- Serves as a problem-solving resource
- Performs routine and specialized operational and support functions, such as assessment of health histories of blood and apheresis donors, stocking up supplies and assisting with setting up and breaking down of mobile blood drive sites with equipment and supplies
- Performs blood component collection by apheresis for red cells, platelets and plasma
- Participates in special projects and assignments as specified
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
Number of Employees
5,001-10,000 employees
