req#: 125308
Location: Cleveland, OH
Facilities: Cleveland Clinic Main Campus,
Professional Area: Nursing – New Grad
Department: 2816 H71 Ddi Surg Ortho-Nursing Institute
Job Code: F99938
Schedule: Full Time
Shift: Day/Night Rotation
Job Description Summary The H71 Digestive Disease General Surgery Unit at Cleveland Clinic Main Campus provides world-class care for patients needing many complex abdominal surgeries, including: Total Abdominal Reconstruction, Whipple, HIPEC, MAL’s, Bowl Resection, Gastrectomy, Splenectomy, Liver Resection, Fistula Maintenance and Repair, and Pancreatectomy. Patients come to our unit from all over the world seeking our expertise in surgical intervention and care. Additionally, H71 receives overflow patients from other surgical areas, such as Orthopedics, Bariatrics, Gynecology, Urology, Plastic Surgery, ENT and Neurology. Our unique patient population allows our nursing caregivers the opportunity to care for many different types of patients – continually widening the knowledge base of our nurses and nursing assistants. Our highly dedicated nursing staff is well trained to meet the needs of our patients. Our unit prides itself on nurse education and training. To help new nurses enhance their knowledge and skills, we provide new staff registered nurses a variety of learning opportunities in orientation with IV training, shadowing with AMET, and access to resources such as dedicated Ostomy/wound care and skin care nurses. We also support our new nurses with highly trained coaches that help guide them to success throughout orientation. Join our team and have the opportunity to provide world-class care to a wide variety of complex surgical patients. Unit Highlights: -Skill Mix: RN; PCNA -36-Bed Unit -Telemetry Monitoring -12-Hour Shifts, Every Other Weekend -Flexible Self-Scheduling -Highly Supportive, Collaborative Environment -BLS Certification Required -ANCC Magnet Designated Hospital 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. Transitions to RN Resident II upon successful completion of the core curriculum.
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).
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Basic Life Support (BLS) through American Heart Association (AHA).
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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.
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