Job Description

Are you ready to bring your expert clinical skills to an elite facility recognized as 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 Charge Nurse is responsible for assessing, planning, implementing and coordinating patient care from admission to the pre-op through discharge from the Center, including care provided in the Pre-op, Procedure Room and PACU. Sets and manages staffing schedule, oversees the day to day operational flow. Works closely with the Administrator/Clinical Director, Nurse Manager, Medical Director and all staff. Provides leadership through example and sets the pace for an efficient, quality care focused, team oriented endoscopy center.

• Leads all aspects of the performance of tasks related to direct patient care in the pre-op, procedure rooms and PACU. Acts as a resource on clinical issues to all nursing and clinical ancillary staff.
• Serves as the team leader in the continuity of patient care in the clinical areas and acts as the Administrator/Clinical Director in the Director's absence.
• Defines and coordinates the adequate staffing of the pre-op, procedure rooms and PACU based on patient daily census and special patient needs.
• Ensures that all vital equipment and supplies are ordered for the clinical area and that inventory par levels are maintained.
• Is responsible for the ordering of medication and supplies on a weekly basis based on upcoming patient census.
• Directs the orientation, in-service training and education of assigned personnel, and conducts annual and off-cycle proficiency training.
• Holds monthly staff meetings to keep staff apprised of policy additions and revisions, findings of QI studies and implications, to relay pertinent information, and to allow employees to share ideas and concerns.
• Active member of the QAPI Committee, compiles QI data and assists in achieving compliance to QI measures at the Center.
• Assists the Safety Officer in implementing the Safety Program at the Center and ensures that environmental and electrical safety policies and procedures are followed.
• Assists the Infection Control Coordinator in implementing the Safety Program at the Center and ensures that infection control policies and procedures are followed.

Qualifications

Job Qualifications

Education

• Associates Degree in Nursing required
• Bachelor's Degree Preferred

Work Experience

• 5 years Nursing experience preferred
• 1 year Charge Nurse experience required
• 1 year Nursing experience in Hospital, ASC or Endoscopy center preferred

Licenses and Certifications

• Valid CA RN license required
• ACLS required
• BLS 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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