Job Description

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Job Title

RN Part Time - Telemetry/Neurology

Location

Port St Lucie

Facility

Tradition Hospital

Department

TMC 8th Floor-Cleveland Clinic Martin Health

Job Code

000648

Shift

Nights

Schedule

7:00pm-7:30am

Join Cleveland Clinic Tradition Hospital’s team of caregivers that provide top-quality patient care to the Port St. Lucie area. Opening its doors in 2013 and expanding in 2017, thisstate-of-the-artacute care facility has 177 patient rooms and offers a wide variety of services to meet community needs. Here, you will be supported as you follow your dreams and find where you belong, here at Tradition Hospital

TheTelemetry/Neurology Unitat Tradition Hospitalspecializes inthe monitoring ofvarious neurological conditions and diagnoses.Many of these patients are post-stroke patients who have been downgraded from the PCU or ICU.As an RNon thisteam,you willassistfellow caregivers in delivering exceptional care, frominitialintroduction to final send-off. In this role, you will interact directly with patients,families,and visitors, offering the opportunity to enhance their experience and supply healthcare education as needed. Additionally, the Cleveland Clinic system provides nurses with many professional development resources,including furtheringeducation and online/in-person courses to enhanceyourskills.

A caregiver in this position worksnightsfrom 7:00PM – 7:30AM.

A caregiver who excels in this role will:

• Provide direct nursing care.

• Implement, monitor, evaluate,updateand revise patient care plans

• Monitor, record, document and communicate patients’ conditions

• Administerprescribed medications and treatmentsin accordance withapproved nursing protocol.

• Note and carry out physician and nursing orders

• Assess andcoordinatepatients’ discharge needs.

• Educate patients and their families, considering cultural issues and other special concerns

• Serve as a primary coordinator of all disciplines for well-coordinated patient care.

• Maintain professional growth and development through ongoing formal and informal education and clinical nursingstudy

Minimum qualifications for the ideal future caregiver include:

• Graduate from an accreditedSchool of Professional Nursing(Diploma,ADNor BSN program)

• Current state licensure as a Registered Nurse (RN)

• Basic Life Support (BLS)Certification through the American Heart Association (AHA)or American Red Cross

• One year of current acute care RN experienceORlicensed military RN experience

Preferred qualifications for the ideal future caregiver include:

• Bachelor’sofScience inNursing (BSN)

• Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) Certification through the American Heart Association (AHA) or American Red Cross – if you do not hold this certification, you will need to obtain it within one year of hire

• NIH Stroke Scale Certification – if you do not hold this certification, you will need to obtain it within30 daysof hire

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.

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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