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Virtual Care Nurse - Virtual Care at Home - 12-Hour - Per Diem - Nights
Job Description
Grow your career at Cedars-Sinai!
Why work here?
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center has been ranked the #1 hospital in California by U.S. News & World Report, 2022‑23! When you join our team, you’ll gain access to our groundbreaking biomedical research facilities and sophisticated medical education programs. We offer learning programs, tuition reimbursement and performance-improvement projects so you can achieve certifications and degrees while gaining the knowledge and experience needed to advance your career.
We take pride in hiring the best, most hard-working employees. Our dedicated doctors, nurses and staff reflect the culturally and ethnically diverse community we serve. They are proof of our dedication to creating a dynamic, inclusive environment that fuels innovation and the gold standard of patient care we strive for.
What you will be doing:
The Virtual Care Nurse will be working in close collaboration with a diverse and high functioning patient care delivery team, the Virtual Care Nurse is a central resource in caring for patients remotely. The overreaching goal of the Virtual Care Nurse is being responsible and accountable for coordinating timely, safe, effective care to remote patients using a high level of technical and organizational skills as well as critical thinking ability.
The Virtual Care Nurse coordinates all remote patient care activities, including screening, triage, coordination of a multi-disciplinary team for safe, timely and high-quality care. This responsibility requires the Virtual Care Nurse to be a proficient and experienced clinician possessing an in-depth knowledge in all aspects of nursing care. It also requires frequent collaboration with customers, physicians, and leaders, requiring expert level communication skills.
- Use monitoring, assessment, planning, intervention, and critical thinking skills to care for acute care patients in a virtual/remote patient care program. Observes, evaluates and expeditiously alters plan of care based on signs and symptoms of illness, reactions to medications/treatments, general behavior, and/or general physical condition.
- Demonstrates advanced assessment skills, integrating appropriate data sources to assess the signs, symptoms, reactions, behaviors, or general appearance to determine normal versus abnormal characteristics. Uses nursing knowledge to identify, solve, and prevent complex patient problems.
- Conducts virtual patient care visits for diverse patient populations as directed by the care team and protocol. Plans and implements individualized patient care in collaboration with interdisciplinary teams based on observations. Implements appropriate reporting, referrals and care in accordance with standardized procedures. Initiates emergency procedures when indicated.
- Uses the resources and knowledge of the virtual care team and service provider network to implement collaborative workflows, policies, protocols, and guidelines that support safe, reliable, high-quality, evidence-based care with clinical protocols as the foundation
- Delegates activities or tasks related to patient care while retaining accountability for the outcome and responsibility for the delivery of nursing care
- Actively facilitates new patient admissions; assumes additional patient intake responsibilities as directed by program leadership; implements established guidelines throughout intake process
- Provides and precisely documents nursing process components and relevant interventions for direct and indirect patient care services that ensures the safety, comfort, personal hygiene, and protection of patients in a timely manner.
Qualifications
Educational/Certification Requirements:
- Associates Degree in Nursing (ADN) is required.
- Bachelor's Degree in Nursing (BSN) preferred.
Licenses/Certifications Requirements:
- California RN License is required.
- Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS/ALS) is required.
- ANCC Specialty Certificate is required.
Experience Requirements:
- Five (5) years of acute care nursing experience in a specialty area is required.
- Three (3) years of acute care nursing experience in critical care is preferred.
- One (1) year of Charge or Supervisory experience is preferred.
- One (1) year of Clinical Nurse III experience for CSMC employees is preferred.
- One (1) year of Virtual Care Nurse and/or nursing informatics experience is preferred.
Req ID : 12717
Working Title : Virtual Care Nurse - Virtual Care at Home - 12-Hour - Per Diem - Nights
Department : Virtual Care at Home
Business Entity : Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Job Category : Nursing
Job Specialty : Nursing
Overtime Status : NONEXEMPT
Primary Shift : Night
Shift Duration : 12 hour
Base Pay : $68.00 - $79.00
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Diversity and Inclusion at Cedars-Sinai
We are caretakers and innovators committed to the pursuit of equitable healthcare. But health equity is not possible without representation. Our commitment to diversity goes beyond demographics or checking boxes. Our people must reflect the diverse identities, experiences and geographies of the communities and patients we serve – because that’s what our patients, colleagues and communities deserve Quality Care and Research—For All, By All.
Our compensation philosophy
We offer competitive total compensation that includes pay, benefits, and other recognition programs for our employees. The base pay range shown above takes into account the wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions, including knowledge/skills; relevant experience and training; education/certifications/licensure; and other business and organizational factors. This base pay range does not include our comprehensive benefits package and any incentive payments that may be applicable to this role. Pay Transparency Non-Discrimination Provision (PDF).
Cedars-Sinai is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer.
Cedars-Sinai does not unlawfully discriminate on the basis of the race, religion, color, national origin, citizenship, ancestry, physical or mental disability, legally protected medical condition (cancer-related or genetic characteristics or any genetic information), marital status, sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy, age (40 or older), military and/or veteran status or any other basis protected by federal or state law. If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, please contact us by email at Applicant_Accommodation@cshs.org and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information. Requests for accommodation will be considered on a case-by-case basis. Please note that only inquiries concerning a request for reasonable accommodation will be responded to from this email address.
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