RN Main Campus Opportunity

As a Registered Nurse in the Cardiovascular Step-down unit, you will provide care to patients receiving coronary artery bypass surgery, valve repair or replacement, and minimally invasive or off-pump coronary bypass surgery.

Key Responsibilities:

• Participate in a residency core curriculum based on individual learning needs.

• Provide direct nursing care alongside a coach in accordance with established policies, procedures, and protocols.

• Establish and/or revise priorities for patient care activities based on acuity of need, patient preference, and resource availability.

• Initiate and/or maintain interventions to assure continuity of safe/effective care for patients.

• Respond to data indicating risk to individual's health and initiate action to correct, reduce, or prevent the risk.

• Seek supervision, consultation, assistance when unable to perform safely and independently.

• Comply with established hospital/department personnel policies.

• Use communication strategies in order to achieve desirable outcomes.

• Document in patient's medical record according to established guidelines.

Requirements:

• Graduate from an accredited school of professional nursing.

• BSN preferred.

• 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 completed within two years of hire if employed on units 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.

• 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.

Cleveland Clinic offers:

• Resources to learn and grow.

• A fulfilling career for everyone.

• Comprehensive benefits that invest in your health, your physical and mental well-being, and your future.

• A supportive caregiver family that will be united in shared values and purpose to fulfill our promise of being the best place to receive care and the best place to work in healthcare.

At Cleveland Clinic, we know what matters most.

That's why we treat our caregivers as if they are our own family, and we are always creating ways to be there for you.