RN Hospital Resident
Cleveland Clinic
Join Cleveland Clinic's Fairview Hospital, founded in 1892, where we are a fully accredited hospital by The Joint Commission. Fairview Hospital is a community hospital with 488 licensed beds and was recently awarded the No.4 hospital among Cleveland hospitals and No. 5 hospital in Ohio. At Cleveland Clinic Fairview Hospital, our patients have access to our strong clinical Centers of Excellence which includes Heart, Cancer, Birthing, Surgery, and our certified Level II Trauma Center.
As a caregiver in this position, you will strive to maintain quality and safety for your patients every shift. By working with this close-knit, interdisciplinary team, you will be able to build your nursing and communication skills while assisting patients with their individual learning and care needs. Your primary duties will include:
- Providing direct nursing care, alongside coaches and team, in accordance with current policies.
- Initiating and maintaining interventions to assure safe and effective care for patients.
- Documenting and responding to data that may indicate risk for individual's health.
- Seeking supervision and assistance from the team when necessary.
The Ideal Candidate is someone who:
- Can work in a close-knit, teambuilding environment.
- Has strong communication skills.
- Can provide empathy and compassion in a patient centered environment.
- Demonstrates strong critical thinking skills.
- Currently is a Registered Nurse and has a Basic Life Support certification.
Caregivers in this position will have the ability to grow with different opportunities to take educational classes. These are tailored to caregivers needs and interests such as leadership, clinical skills, and more.
Cleveland Clinic provides what matters most: career growth, delivering world-class care to our patients, continuous learning, exceptional benefits and working for an organization that offers many long-term career paths. Join us and experience a culture where opportunities to advance and the support to get there go hand in hand.
**Responsibilities:**
+ Participates in a residency core curriculum based on their individual learning needs.
+ Provides direct nursing care, alongside a coach, in accordance with established policies, procedures and protocols of the healthcare organization.
+ Establishes and/or revises priorities for patient care activities based on the following: acuity of need, patient preference, and resource availability.
+ Initiates and/or maintains interventions to assure continuity of safe/effective care for patients.
+ Responds to data indicating risk to individual's health and initiates action to correct, reduce, or prevent the risk.
+ Seeks supervision, consultation, assistance when unable to perform safely and independently.
+ Complies with established hospital/department personnel policies.
+ Uses communication strategies in order to achieve desirable outcomes.
+ Documents in patient's medical record according to established guidelines.
+ Other duties as assigned.
**Education:**
+ Graduate from an accredited school of professional nursing.
+ BSN preferred
**Certifications:**
+ Current state licensure as Registered Nurse (RN).
+ Proof of Basic Life Support (BLS) through American Heart Association (AHA) must be presented upon hire.
+ If in a Critical Care area an Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) through American Heart Association (AHA) Certification must be presented upon hire or within first year of employment.
+ Within one year of hire RNs in Children's Hospital and Children's Hospital for Rehabilitation will achieve and maintain Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) through American Heart Association (AHA) with the exception of the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit RNs who must achieve and maintain Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP) through American Heart Association (AHA) provider status and RNs in the Special Delivery Unit, who must achieve and maintain Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) through American Heart Association (AHA).
+ ONS Chemo/Bio course complete within 1 year of employment if employed on units inpatient and/or outpatient where chemo is administered.
+ If in an Adult/Combined EDs, ACLS upon hire or within one year of beginning work in the Emergency Department.
+ If in an ED, Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) through American Heart Association (AHA) upon hire or within one year of beginning work in the Emergency Department.
+ In Dedicated Trauma Centers, Trauma Nursing Core Course (TNCC - adult) or Emergency Nurse Pediatric Course (ENPC - pediatric) upon hire or within 24 months of beginning work in the Emergency Department.
+ Vascular Access Registered Nurse (VARN) program attendance required and obtains either a Certified Registered Nurse Infusion (CRNI) or Vascular Access Board Certified (VA-BC) certification upon hire or within a year of hire in Peripherally Inserted Central Catheter (PICC) areas.
+ Any registered nurse or advanced practice nurse must obtain a cancer specific certification or demonstrate ongoing qualifying education within the timeframe of the facilities accreditation cycle, if they work in medical oncology, radiation oncology, cancer center or cancer clinic and/or administer chemotherapy within an accredited Cleveland Clinic facility.
**Complexity of Work:**
+ Requires critical thinking skills, decisive judgment and the ability to work with minimal supervision.
+ Must be able to work in a stressful environment and take appropriate action.
**Work Experience:**
+ New grad or less than one year RN work experience or if experience RN moving from non-inpatient to acute direct care clinical inpatient setting with less than one year current acute direct patient care RN experience.
**Physical Requirements:**
+ Requires full range of body motion including handling and lifting patient, manual and finger dexterity, and eye-hand coordination.
+ Requires standing and walking for extended periods of time.
+ Requires corrected vision and hearing to normal range.
+ Requires working under stressful conditions and irregular hours.
+ Exposure to communicable diseases and/or body fluids.
+ Medium Work - Exerting 20 to 50 pounds of force occasionally, and/or 10 to 25 pounds of force frequently, and/or greater than negligible up to 10 pounds of force constantly to move objects.
+ Physical Demand requirements are in excess of those for Light Work.
**Personal Protective Equipment:**
+ Follows Standard Precautions using personal protective equipment as required for procedures.
Salaries [which may be] shown on independent job search websites reflect various market averages and do not represent information obtained directly from The Cleveland Clinic. Because we value each individual candidate, we invite and encourage each candidate to discuss salary/hourly specifics during the application and hiring process.
Cleveland Clinic Health System is pleased to be an equal employment employer: Women / Minorities / Veterans / Individuals with Disabilities
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