Cleveland Clinic Hiring for RN Hospital Observation Unit at Warrensville Heights, Ohio Full Time

Job ID: 95131

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 a Registered Nurse (RN).

• Basic Life Support (BLS) through American Heart Association (AHA).

• 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.

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.

Cleveland Clinic is pleased to be an equal employment/affirmative action employer: Women/Minorities/Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities.