Join Cleveland Clinic Fairview Hospital and experience world-class healthcare at its best. Fairview Hospital provides state-of-the-art healthcare to all its patients. On our team, you will provide stellar patient care to patients assigned to your unit. Cleveland Clinic is recognized as one of the top hospitals in the nation. Cleveland Clinic Fairview Hospital is a proud Magnet Hospital awarded by the American Nurses Credentialing Center. This designation is the highest honor an organization can receive for professional nursing practice.

Cleveland Clinic's Surgical Intensive Care Unit (SICU) delivers exceptional patient care to various surgical patient populations, including heart, vascular, trauma, neurology, orthopeadics, pulmonary, and gastrointestinal. The nursing caregivers within the SICU consider the use of state-of-the-art technology a priority when caring for patients and consistently use advanced technology such as ventilators, ventriculostomy, ICP monitoring, continuous renal placement therapy, intra-aortic balloon pumps, pulmonary artery catheters, continuous cardiac output monitoring, infusion pumps for multiple drips and new ergonomically sensitive equipment for patient mobility.

The ideal candidate is someone who:

• Thrives in a strong team environment.

• Is passionate about critical care.

• Has excellent critical thinking skills and decisive judgement.

• Demonstrates a strong work ethic.

• Is patient, compassionate, and empathetic.

This is an excellent opportunity for someone who seeks to enhance their critical care nursing skills through learning opportunities and professional development. This opportunity also offers a flexible schedule and tuition reimbursement.

At Cleveland Clinic, we know what matters most. That's why we treat our caregivers as if they are our own family, and we are always creating ways to be there for you. Here, you'll find that we offer: resources to learn and grow, a fulfilling career for everyone, and comprehensive benefits that invest in your health, your physical and mental well-being and your future. When you join Cleveland Clinic, you'll be part of a supportive caregiver family that will be united in shared values and purpose to fulfill our promise of being the best place to receive care and the best place to work in healthcare.

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).

• Proof of Basic Life Support (BLS) certification must be presented upon hire. 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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Cleveland Clinic Health System is pleased to be an equal employment employer: Women / Minorities / Veterans / Individuals with Disabilities