RN Hospital Resident I - Nurse Resident

Company: Cleveland Clinic Indian River Hospital
Location: Vero Beach
Posted on: March 16, 2023

Job Description:

RN Hospital Resident IJob Profile Summary:

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.

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

Languages:

* N/A

Certifications:

* Current state licensure as a Registered Nurse (RN).
* Basic Life Support (BLS) through American Heart Association (AHA).
* If in an ED, Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) through American Heart Association (AHA) upon hire or within one year of beginning work in the Emergency Department.

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.

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