Job Description

Engage with a dedicated healthcare team and access innovative facilities to support your efforts in achieving something remarkable-for yourself and for others. Join our team and experience why U.S. News & World Report distinguishes us as one of America?s Leading Hospitals!

Care for critically ill patients in our 24-bed Surgical, Trauma and Transplant ICU.

• Responsible and accountable for the application of the care plan, supervision of clinical practice, research involvement, consultative services, inter and intradepartmental liaison, education, leadership, and patient care management across the healthcare continuum including preventative care, acute care through discharge, and ambulatory care environments.
• Collaborates with diverse healthcare professionals to deliver outstanding patient care using independent decision-making skills.
• Reports to the Medical Director, the Lead Nurse Practitioner, and the Chief Nursing Officer (CNO) and functions as an integral part of the medical team.
• Supplies personalized care that aligns with CSHS philosophies, encompassing care consistent with Standards of Care/Practice, the Nursing Care Provision Plan, the Patient Care Provision Plan, the Performance Improvement Plan, the Patient Education Plan, the Standards of Professional Organizations, Code of Conduct, and hospital and departmental policies and procedures.
• Provides care to special patient populations and those with diverse cultural backgrounds.
• Performs all job duties with sensitivity and attention to age and developmental achievements of the population(s) served, which may include adolescent, adult, and geriatric.
• Recognizes safety issues, implements safety measures, and assesses patients with developmental achievements in mind.

Qualifications

Education:

• Graduate of an accredited Physician Assistant (PA-C) program approved by the California Board of Registered.

Experience:

• Minimum of two years of experience in an Intensive Care Unit (ICU), preferably in a surgical, trauma, or transplant setting.
• Experience with critically ill trauma and solid organ transplant patients is highly desirable.

Licensure/Certifications Requirements:

• Current, unrestricted California PA-C License.
• National PA Certification.
• Current DEA License.
• Current ACLS required.

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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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