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Job Description

Do you have a passion for the highest quality and patient happiness? Would you like to take your nursing skills to the next level in a state-of-the-art environment recognized as a top ten hospital in the United States? 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.

Cedars-Sinai can provide every known procedure available for gastrointestinal (GI) disorders and GI tract surgery. The dedicated care team of specialists works to advance the field and improve the quality of care for patients dealing with these unique challenges. The internationally recognized IBD specialists at Cedars-Sinai are dedicated to providing outstanding, patient-centered care including for the management of IBD, and are engaged in groundbreaking research to help cure these diseases.

Summary of Essential Duties:

• As a Pre/Post-Operative PACU Registered Nurse, you will deliver nursing care for GI patients across the preoperative and postoperative period from admission to discharge.
• Care involves assessing, communicating patient status, performing nursing procedures, completing preoperative check list, coordinating with anesthesia personnel, completing preoperative orders and documenting care given.
• The Clinical Nurse II will ensure that the patient needs are met through the continuum of care, while concurrently providing support to facility staff and the operating physician.
• Maintains clinical competencies with GI Lab procedures, including EGD and colonoscopies.

Qualifications

• Graduate of an accredited nursing program required
• BSN preferred

• Current, unrestricted California RN license required
• ACLS and PALS certifications from the American Heart Association or American Red Cross required
• CGRN preferred (or willing to obtain within one year from start date)

• A minimum of 3 years of acute care nursing experience required
• At least 2 years of nursing experience in an ICU or PACU setting required
• At least 1 year of GI nursing experience preferred

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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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