Advanced Practice Registered Nurse - Per Diem - Nursing Research and Quality Improvement | Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Job at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA

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  • Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
  • Los Angeles, CA

Job Description

Job Description

Make a difference every single day

When the work you do every single day has a crucial impact on the lives of others, every effort, every detail, and every second matters. This shared culture of passion, integrity and dedication pulses through Cedars-Sinai, and it???s just one of the many reasons we???ve achieved our sixth consecutive Magnet designation for nursing excellence! You???ll have everything you need to do something incredible???for yourself, and for others. Join us, and discover why U.S. News & World Report has named us one of America???s Best Hospitals!

The Nursing Research and Quality Improvement Department has an opportunity for an Advanced Practice RN (APRN) to help the older adult population improve their health and wellness with their "Elders Preserving Independence in the Community" (EPIC) research project.

As a per diem APRN on the research team, you will commute to and conduct in-home nurse visits with older adults at designated sites in the Los Angeles area using the Comprehensive Geriatric Appraisal (CGA).

Responsibilities:
  • Identify and provide tailored recommendations and negotiate health behaviors/actions.
  • Use the home setting to facilitate and to perform the physical, social, psychosocial, functional appraisal; medication review; health history reviews of chronic and acute illnesses; provide home and general environmental safety assessments and address barriers to recommendations.
  • Develop a unique relationship with the client as a knowledgeable clinical consultant, participant advocate, teacher, and facilitator.
  • Develop solutions in collaboration with participants, follow up, and facilitate adherence with recommendations.
  • Educate, consult, recommend, identify and develop support service resources for good health with an emphasis on the role of the older person as an active agent in determining their own health and well-being (empowerment and self-care)
  • Participate in Nurse Intervention APRN debriefings.
  • Document according to research protocol requirements and on provided platforms.


Qualifications

Educational Requirements:

  • Graduate of an accredited school of nursing.
  • Master of Science in Nursing (MSN) degree preferred.

License/Certification/Registration Requirements:

  • Valid California RN State License required.
  • Nurse Practitioners or Clinical Nurse Specialists.
  • American Red Cross or American Heart Association Basic Life Support (BLS) certification.
  • American Nurses Credentialling Center (ANCC) or national specialty certification required.

Experience:

  • Three years of recent acute care RN experience in specialty required.


Req ID : 4357

Working Title : Advanced Practice Registered Nurse - Per Diem - Nursing Research and Quality Improvement

Department : Nursing Research

Business Entity : Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

Job Category : Nursing

Job Specialty : Nursing

Overtime Status : NONEXEMPT

Primary Shift : Day

Shift Duration : 12 hour

Base Pay : $74.00 - $74.00

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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