Virtual Care Nurse - Care ; Not Remote Per Diem

Overview

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 hardworking 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 work 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 overarching goal is 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 requires the Virtual Care Nurse to be a proficient and experienced clinician possessing 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. Observe, evaluate and expeditiously alter plan of care based on signs and symptoms of illness, reactions to medications/treatments, general behavior, and/or general physical condition.
• Demonstrate advanced assessment skills, integrating appropriate data sources to assess signs, symptoms, reactions, behaviors, or general appearance to determine normal versus abnormal characteristics. Use nursing knowledge to identify, solve, and prevent complex patient problems.
• Conduct virtual patient care visits for diverse patient populations as directed by the care team and protocol. Plan and implement individualized patient care in collaboration with interdisciplinary teams based on observations. Implement appropriate reporting, referrals and care in accordance with standardized procedures. Initiate emergency procedures when indicated.
• Use 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.
• Delegate 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; assume additional patient intake responsibilities as directed by program leadership; implement established guidelines throughout intake process.
• Provide and precisely document nursing process components and relevant interventions for direct and indirect patient care services that ensure the safety, comfort, personal hygiene, and protection of patients in a timely manner.

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 (must be obtained within 1 year).

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 : 14518
Working Title
:
Virtual Care Nurse - Care at Home (Not Remote) - 12
- Hour - Per Diem - Days
Department
:
Virtual Care at Home
Business Entity
:
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Job Category
:
Nursing
Job Specialty
:
Nursing
Overtime Status
: NONEXEMPT
Primary Shift
:
Day
Shift Duration
: 12 hour
Base Pay
: $68.00 - $79.00