RN, Per Diem - Pain Management, Santa Monica

The clinical nurse is a professional Registered Nurse who assumes responsibility and accountability for a group of patients for a designated time frame and provides care to these patients using the nursing process in accordance with the standards of professional nursing practice. The clinical nurse performs in the professional role as described by the American Nurses Association (ANA); engaging in activities related to ethics, education, evidence-based practice and research, quality improvement, leadership, collaboration, professional practice evaluation, resources utilization, environmental health, and patient advocacy as appropriate to clinical nursing practice. The clinical nurse’s roles and responsibilities include, but are not limited to providing care in the preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative phases of care. Your role and shift may be variable to meet departmental needs.