Registered Nurse - 7N Ortho Care- 12hr Nights - Los Angeles, CA

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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 happiness, passion, 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. From working with a team of dedicated healthcare professionals to using state-of-the-art facilities, you'll have everything you need to do something incrediblefor yourself, and for others.

7North is our 64-bed Orthopedic (Ortho) unit. We specialize in providing quality care for orthopedic surgery, injury, and disease, specifically, joint replacement, orthopedic oncology, geriatric fracture, and trauma. We also provide overflow for spine and general surgery as well as medical patients.

As a Registered Nurse on 7North, you are responsible and accountable for the application of the nursing process and the delivery of patient care for the specialty patient population. You will also:

• Provide and accurately document direct and indirect patient care services that ensures the safety, comfort, personal hygiene, and protection of patients in a timely manner
• Provide patient education on disease prevention and restorative measures
• Provide administration of medications and therapeutic agents necessary to implement treatment, disease prevention, or rehabilitative plan of care
• Perform skin tests, immunizations, phlebotomy, and the initiation of peripheral venous access
• Observe and assess signs and symptoms of illness, reactions to medications/treatments, general behavior, and/or general physical condition to determine normal versus abnormal characteristics and initiate emergency procedures when indicated
• Plan and implement individualized patient care based on observations
• Implement appropriate reporting, referrals, and care in accordance with standardized procedures while providing care to special patient populations and patients with diverse cultural backgrounds
• Identify patients' readiness for learning and their ability to follow directions/instructions and give consent while identifying and assessing patient safety concerns with respect to age and developmental considerations
• Demonstrate the knowledge and the ability to identify and make special adjustments as required to the specific populations' needs, including cultural, spiritual, age, psychosocial, communication, gender, sexual orientation, economic, education, family, and condition needs