Job Description

Job Description

Are you an ambitious and experienced Nurse Practitioner (NP) looking to advance your career? Cedars-Sinai, a world-class healthcare organization, is seeking a highly skilled and dedicated Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner (NP) to join our Transplant team. At Cedars-Sinai, you will have the opportunity to work in a dynamic and collaborative environment, contributing to patient care and impacting the lives of our patients.

With advanced surgical and medical knowledge in lung, heart, liver, kidney, and pancreas transplantation, the Cedars-Sinai Comprehensive Transplant Center is one of the most successful facilities of its kind. Here, patients find a compassionate environment and hope for a longer, healthier life.

The Transplant Psychiatry Nurse Practitioner, in collaboration with the Multidisciplinary Team and supervising MD, will provide consultation and follow-up on patients referred for transplant evaluation and ongoing management in all inpatient and outpatient solid organ transplant programs.

Essential Duties:

• Rounding on inpatients: providing orders, instructions, education in collaboration with the Supervising Physician(s).
• Management of the health care of the pre and post transplant patient population under the supervision of the attending physician.
• Performance of history and physical examination.
• Order diagnostic testing such as lab, Imaging, EKG and utilize results for formulating treatment plan.
• Review diagnostics studies and take appropriate action.
• Order non-operative therapeutic modalities.
• Prescribe medication as needed for symptom management.
• Complete medication reconciliation as required by CSMC policy.
• Administer medications as privileged and described as part of the plan of care.
• Provide patient/family education; provide patients and family with information on the plan of care.
• Record progress notes.
• Refer to multidisciplinary teams as appropriate.
• Assist the clinical team with triaging phone calls.
• Coordinating the discharging planning of patients and patient discharge education.
• Record discharge summaries.

Qualifications

Qualifications - External

Education:

• MSN Degree required
• Graduate of an accredited Nurse Practitioner program required
• AGACNP preferred

License/Certification:

• Current State of California Registered Nurse and Nurse Practitioner License required
• National certification as an NP required - Psychiatric Mental Health NP
• Current BLS certification from the American Heart Association or American Red Cross required
• DEA license required.

Experience:

• A minimum of 3 years of acute care nursing experience preferred
• Nurse Practitioner with relevant acute care experience preferred
• Psychiatry, Mental Health, Behavioral Health experience preferred

Req ID : 3553

Working Title : Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner (NP) - Transplant - Full Time - 8hr Days

Department : Surgery - Abdominal TP

Business Entity : Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

Job Category : Nursing

Job Specialty : Advanced Practice (RN)

Overtime Status : EXEMPT

Primary Shift : Day

Shift Duration : 8 hour

Base Pay : $143,062.40 - $228,904

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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