RN - Med/Surg & Orthopaedics

                    

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Job Title

RN - Med/Surg & Orthopaedics

                        

Location

Avon

                    

Facility

Avon Hospital

                     

Department

NRS-5 Med-Surg-Avon Hospital

                      

Job Code

F00165

                     

Shift

Nights

                       

Schedule

7:00pm-7:30am

                       

Job Summary

                         

Job Details

Join Cleveland Clinic Avon Hospital and experience world-class healthcare at its best. Avon Hospital provides state-of-the-art healthcare to all its patients and 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.  

  

Avon Hospital’s 5th Floor Complex Medical Care unit has a collaborative, dedicated and multi-disciplinary team of caregivers that provide perioperative and postoperative care to medical-surgical and orthopaedic patients with the goal of ensuring discharge readiness and patient safety. With telemetry monitoring capabilities, this unit also provides continuous cardiac monitoring for adult non-ICU medical-surgical patients. As an RN on this team, you will deliver exceptional care, throughout the patient care journey. In this role, you will interact directly with patients and their families, offering the opportunity to enhance their experience and provide healthcare education as needed.    

How You’ll Benefit 

• Take advantage of industry leading benefits, including our RN Loan Repayment program, which helps pay off student debt, and our Tuition Reimbursement program to reinvest in your career. And if you’re relocating to join us, you could be eligible for relocation assistance.
• Our Center for Workplace Violence Prevention and Caregiver Well-Being sets caregiver safety as a priority, identifying, reporting and responding to incidents and providing safety resources. 

A caregiver in this role works nights from 7:00 p.m. – 7:30 a.m. with weekend and holiday requirements.

A caregiver who excels in this role will:

• Provide direct nursing care
•  Implement, monitor, evaluate, and revise patient care plans
• Monitor, record, document, and communicate patients’ conditions
• Administer prescribed medications and treatments
• Follow and carry out physician and nursing orders
• Assess and coordinate patients’ discharge needs
• Educate patients and their families
• Prioritize patients, including fresh post-ops, high fall risk, and pain management needs
• Assist with early ambulation, often same-day or next-day post-op
• Reinforce weight-bearing restrictions and mobility precautions
• Apply and monitor braces, splints, or immobilizers
• Collaborate closely with PT and OT during patient mobilization
• Educate patients on post-op care and recovery expectations
• Recognize and escalate complications such as infection signs, blood clots, and other post-op concerns
• Adjust care plans quickly in a fast-paced environment

Minimum qualifications for the ideal future caregiver include:  

• Graduate from an accredited school of professional nursing (Diploma, ADN or 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 experience OR licensed military RN experience 

Preferred qualifications for the ideal future caregiver include: 

• Bachelor’s 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 grea