RN Hospital - ED

Company: Cleveland Clinic
Location: Elyria
Posted on: November 19, 2021

Job Description:

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.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 preferredCertifications:
    • 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.
    • 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.
              Schedule: Full Time

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