Registered Nurse - Spine Center - 8 Hour Per Diem Days
Cedars-Sinai•Los Angeles, CA
•$68 - $79
About The Position
The Registered Nurse provides direct and indirect patient care in a Spine Center setting, ensuring patient safety, comfort, hygiene, and protection. The role includes documenting care, educating patients, administering medications and therapeutic agents, performing selected clinical procedures, assessing patient condition, and planning individualized care. The nurse works with patients from diverse cultural backgrounds and adapts care to their specific needs.
Requirements
- Graduate of an accredited nursing program.
- Current, unrestricted California State RN License.
- BLS Certification from the American Heart Association or ARC.
- At least 1 year of acute care nursing experience.
Nice To Haves
- Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN).
- 2 or more years of Ambulatory Care experience.
Responsibilities
- Provide and accurately document direct and indirect patient care that ensures patients’ safety, comfort, personal hygiene, and protection in a timely manner.
- Provide care and patient education on disease prevention and restorative measures.
- Administer medications and therapeutic agents needed to implement treatment, disease-prevention, or rehabilitation plans of care.
- Perform skin tests, immunizations, phlebotomy, and initiation of peripheral venous access.
- Observe signs and symptoms of illness, medication or treatment reactions, behavior, and general physical condition.
- Use assessment skills and appropriate data sources to distinguish normal from abnormal patient characteristics.
- Plan and implement individualized care based on observations; make reports and referrals, provide care under standardized procedures, and initiate emergency procedures when indicated.
- Provide care to special patient populations and patients with diverse cultural backgrounds; assess readiness to learn and ability to understand instructions and give consent.
- Adapt care to patients’ cultural, spiritual, age, psychosocial, communication, gender, sexual orientation, economic, educational, family, and condition-related needs.
- Identify and assess patient safety concerns related to age and development, intervene to provide a safe environment, and evaluate the effectiveness of interventions.
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