Nurse Practitioner (NP) - Neurosurgery - Full Time - 10hr Days
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Cedars-Sinai seeks an experienced Acute Care Nurse Practitioner for its inpatient Neurosurgery team. The role provides comprehensive care through daily rounding, care coordination, discharge planning, and interdisciplinary collaboration. The provider works with Neurosurgery attendings, residents, and other healthcare team members to support safe, efficient, high-quality care throughout patients’ inpatient stays.
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Job Description
At Cedars-Sinai, the tasks you carry out each day directly affect the lives of others. Our dedicated and passionate culture has brought us six Magnet recognitions for nursing excellence. Join us and find out why U.S. News & World Report recognizes us as one of America's Best Hospitals!
The Neurosurgery service provides specialized inpatient care for patients with a wide range of neurosurgical conditions. The team rounds throughout the day across multiple inpatient units and partners closely with physicians, residents, nursing staff, and consulting specialties to deliver coordinated, patient-centered care and facilitate smooth transitions from admission through discharge.
Position Summary:
We are seeking an experienced Acute Care Nurse Practitioner to join our Inpatient Neurosurgery team. This role provides comprehensive inpatient care for neurosurgical patients through daily rounding, care coordination, discharge planning, and interdisciplinary collaboration. The APP will work closely with Neurosurgery attendings, rotating residents, and other members of the healthcare team to ensure safe, efficient, and high-quality patient care throughout the inpatient stay.
This position is ideal for an independent, collaborative provider who thrives in a fast-paced inpatient environment and is passionate about patient education and multidisciplinary teamwork.
Key Responsibilities
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Organize and maintain the daily inpatient neurosurgery census.
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Perform inpatient consultations and daily patient rounds.
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Evaluate patients, develop treatment plans, and document clinical encounters.
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Place orders for medications, laboratory tests, imaging studies, and other diagnostic or therapeutic interventions within scope of practice.
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Coordinate diagnostic testing, treatments, and discharge planning.
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Collaborate with Neurosurgery attendings, rotating residents, consulting specialists, nursing staff, and ancillary teams to ensure continuity of care.
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Communicate patient status, care plans, and outstanding clinical tasks with supervising physicians.
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Provide education and support to patients, families, and nursing staff.
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Promote efficient patient flow and safe transitions of care.
Qualifications
Qualifications
Education:
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Master of Nursing Degree.
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Graduate of an accredited Nurse practitioner program approved by the California Board of Registered (ANCC).
Experience:
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Two (2) or more years of inpatient APP Neurosurgery experience preferred.
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Experience with inpatient rounding, care coordination, discharge planning, and multidisciplinary collaboration.
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Experience working with physician residents and interdisciplinary care teams
Licensure/Certifications Requirements:
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CA RN License.
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Nurse Practitioner and Furnishing License.
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National Provider Identifier (NPI)
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DEA License (schedule 2-5).
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BLS
Cedars-Sinai is an EEO 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.
How this job compares
Set against the 10,103 open Nurse Practitioner jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 3, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- California median$147–199K/yr178 salary ranges
- California median$92–115/hr132 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 390 open Nurse Practitioner jobs in California and 10,103 across the US. 3% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in California
- Sutter Health42 open
- Kaiser Permanente28 open
- Cedars-Sinai (this employer)21 open
- Experience
- Nurse Practitioner postings that state a minimum ask for 2 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 1 to 2 years (2,986 postings).
- Education
- This posting asks for a master's degree; 3,202 of the 10,103 open Nurse Practitioner jobs (32%) ask for a master's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 3, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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