New Grad RN Resident – Med-Surg / Telemetry

About the role

Cleveland Clinic's Martin North Hospital in downtown Stuart, Florida, provides top-quality patient care to the communities in and around Martin County on the Indian River. This facility combines advanced research and surgery, leading-edge technology, and world-class patient care in a supportive caregiver environment.

Responsibilities

• Participate in a residency core curriculum based on their individual learning needs.
• Provide direct nursing care, alongside a coach, in accordance with established healthcare organization policies, procedures and protocols.
• Establish and/or revise priorities for patient care activities based on the following: acuity of need, patient preference, and resource availability.
• Initiate and/or maintain interventions to assure continuity of safe/effective care for patients.
• Respond to data indicating risk to individual's health and initiate action to correct, reduce, or prevent the risk.
• Seek supervision, consultation, assistance when unable to perform safely and independently.
• Comply with established hospital/department personnel policies.
• Use communication strategies to achieve desirable outcomes.
• Document patient's medical record according to established guidelines.

Qualifications

Minimum qualifications:

• Graduate from an accredited school of professional nursing.
• Current state licensure as a Registered Nurse (RN).
• Basic Life Support (BLS) through American Heart Association (AHA).
• Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) through American Heart Association (AHA) upon hire or within one year of beginning work in the Emergency Department.
• New graduate 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 of current acute direct patient care RN experience.
• Any registered nurse or advanced practice nurse must obtain a cancer specific certification or demonstrate ongoing qualifying education within the period 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.

Preferred qualifications:

• Bachelor of science in nursing (BSN)

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.