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Job Title

New Grad RN Resident - Metabolic Surgery

Location

Cleveland

Facility

Cleveland Clinic Main Campus

Department

M63-Metabolic Surgery Unit-Nursing Institute

Job Code

F99938

Shift

Day/Night Rotation

Schedule

7:00am-7:00pm/7:00pm-7:00am

Job Summary

Job Details

Join Cleveland Clinic's Main Campus where research and surgery are advanced, technology is leading-edge, patient care is world-class, and caregivers are family. Cleveland Clinic is recognized as one of the top hospitals in the nation. At Cleveland Clinic, you will work alongside passionate and dedicated caregivers, receive endless support and appreciation and build a rewarding career with one of the most respected healthcare organizations in the world.

The M63 Metabolic Surgery Unit focuses on the treatment of patients undergoing Bariatric Surgery, including Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass, Gastric Banding, and Sleeve Gastrectomy. The dedicated caregivers on this 10-bed, private room, unit provide the highest quality, safest care to adult patients receiving post-surgical care. M63 has a positive, team-oriented and supportive culture with daily 7am huddles for both the night shift and day shift to start/end their shift with an optimistic mindset. We maintain a strict patient-to-staff ratio, never exceeding 5 patients per caregiver.

This is a full time role. A caregiver in this position will work day/night rotation.

A caregiver who excels in this role will:

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

Provide direct nursing care alongside a success coach.

Establish and/or revise priorities for patient care (acuity of need, patient preference and resource availability).

Respond to data indicating risk to patients’ health and initiate action to correct, reduce or prevent risk.

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

Document in patients’ medical records.

Minimum qualifications for the ideal future caregiver include:

Graduate from an accredited school of professional nursing.

Current state licensure as a Registered Nurse (RN).

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

New graduate RN OR less than one year of RN work experience.

Preferred qualifications for the ideal future caregiver include:

Bachelor of science in nursing (BSN).

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.

The policy of Cleveland Clinic Health System and its system hospitals (Cleveland Clinic Health System) is to provide equal opportunity to all of our caregivers and applicants for employment in our drug free environment. All offers of employment are followed by testing for controlled substances.

Cleveland Clinic Health System administers an influenza prevention program. You will be required to comply with this program, which will include obtaining an influenza vaccination on an annual basis or obtaining an approved exemption.

Decisions concerning employment, transfers and promotions are made upon the basis of the best qualified candidate without regard to color, race, religion, national origin, age, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, ancestry, status as a disabled or Vietnam era veteran or any other characteristic protected by law. Information provided on this application may be shared with any Cleveland Clinic Health System facility.

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