RN Specialty - Pre Op/PTU PACU - Jules Stein Eye Institute

You can use your expertise, compassion, and kindness to transform the patient experience. When you join UCLA Health as a nurse, you’ll deliver leading-edge care as you build an exceptional career with a health system that’s consistently ranked among the best in the country. 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).  The clinical nurse’s roles and responsibilities include but are not limited to providing care in the preoperative, intraoperative, and post-operative phases of care. In the intraoperative phase of care, clinical nurses are expected to perform the role as circulating and/or scrub nurse to meet the departmental needs. In addition, the clinical nurse will be proficient with laser and/or minor procedures performed in the laser/procedure room.