RN Surgery Resident - Vascular OR

As the No. 1 heart center in the country since 1995, every year our heart team performs thousands of cardiovascular and thoracic procedures at all levels of complexity and acuity. Nurses in Perioperative Services for the Cleveland Clinic health system provide evidence-based care in a multidisciplinary setting. The ability to manage patient populations within the surgical continuum is a unique professional experience for our nurses as they are involved in groundbreaking procedures and care for some of the sickest patients in the country and from around the world.

As a world leader in healthcare with exceptional nurses working with leading-edge technology and renowned surgeons, Cleveland Clinic is an exciting place to be a practicing perioperative nurse. Check out our OR Residency video below.
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**For ease of application, several positions are available under this requisition so you will only need to apply once for the Vascular OR – both experienced RNs and New Grad applicants welcome!

Training Experience:

Our nurse residency and nurse associate programs are unique in offering nurses in training a chance to experience a rotation in one of our 280 Cleveland Clinic ORs. And our new perioperative nurses go through an intensive onboarding program to get them up to speed in a busy and dynamic environment.

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.

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• Participates in a residency curriculum based on surgery core learning needs.
• Provides direct nursing care, alongside a coach, in accordance with established policies, procedures and protocols of the healthcare organization.
• Establishes and revises priorities for patient care activities based on; acuity of need, patient preference, and resource availability.
• Initiates and maintains interventions to assure continuity of safe and 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 and department personnel policies.
• Uses communication strategies that are intended to achieve desirable outcomes and a perception of satisfaction by those involved.
• 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)

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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Recommended Skills

• Ablation
• Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (Acls)
• Angioplasty
• Artificial Cardiac Pacemakers
• Basic Life Support
• Cnor Certification