New Grad RN – Neurosciences Specialty Unit

Join our team at Cleveland Clinic and experience world-class healthcare at its best. Cleveland Clinic is recognized as one of the top hospitals in the country. At Cleveland Clinic, you will be part of a talented, compassionate, and driven team of caregivers. You will work with state-of-the-art technology and provide stellar patient care. At Cleveland Clinic you will build a rewarding career with one of the most respected healthcare organizations in the world.  

Cleveland Clinic’s Neurological Institute is home to one of the nation’s top Neurology and Neurosurgery programs. We pride ourselves on our nationally recognized and certified Stroke Center, staffed by highly trained specialists in advanced neurological assessment techniques.

Our H60 Neurosciences Unit is hiring a Registered Nurse that is looking to join a fast paced and collaborative environment. The neurosciences unit sees adult patients with a multitude of complex neurological issues. In this role, you will not only be performing acute patient care but also taking part in complex surgical procedures with highly trained specialists, all while gaining your stroke certification.

This role has robust orientation training, which includes:

· Clinic and operating room observations.

· One on one work with your preceptor.

· Weekly progress meetings.

H60 Neurosciences Unit is ideal for someone who wants to gain a wealth of knowledge and build a strong foundation of skill sets for their nursing career. The ideal candidate is a critical thinker who can work independently and work in a team environment.

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 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.