RN Resident

Cleveland Clinic's Medina Hospital offers a unique opportunity for registered nurses to advance their careers in a world-class healthcare organization. With over 75 years of providing top-quality patient care, Medina Hospital is a 148-bed community-based hospital that specializes in general medical surgical care for adult and geriatric patients.

The 3 South nursing unit is a 32-bed unit that delivers care to various conditions, including pneumonia, diabetes, sepsis, GI bleed, cellulitis, COPD exacerbation, various cancers, kidney stones, and bowel obstructions. This unit also cares for patients undergoing hysterectomies, thyroidectomies, colon resections, and appendectomies.

As a Registered Nurse (RN) Resident I, you will participate in a year-long residency program that provides direct nursing care, coaching, and support. The ideal future caregiver is someone who puts patients first, provides care with compassion, empathy, and patience, critically thinks and problem-solves for patients' best interests, demonstrates a strong work ethic, and thrives in a team environment.

Cleveland Clinic values and supports our nurses by offering student loan repayment and tuition reimbursement to eligible full- and part-time RNs. We treat our caregivers as family and offer resources to learn and grow, a fulfilling career for everyone, and comprehensive benefits that invest in your health, well-being, and future.

Responsibilities:

• Participates in a residency core curriculum based on individual learning needs.
• Provides direct nursing care alongside a coach in accordance with established policies, procedures, and protocols.
• Establishes and/or revises priorities for patient care activities based on acuity of need, patient preference, and resource availability.
• Initiates and/or maintains interventions to ensure 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 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 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 one year of employment.
• 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.

Personal Protective Equipment:

• Follows Standard Precautions using personal protective equipment as required for procedures.