PRN RN – Pediatric Short Stay

                    

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Job Title

PRN RN – Pediatric Short Stay

                        

Location

Mayfield Hts

                    

Facility

Hillcrest Hospital

                     

Department

West Center-Hillcrest Hospital

                      

Job Code

F24015

                     

Shift

Nights

                       

Schedule

7:00pm-7:30am

                       

Job Summary

                         

Job Details

Join Cleveland Clinic and experience world-class healthcare at its best. Cleveland Clinic Hillcrest Hospital is a proud Magnet Hospital awarded by the American Nurses Credentialing Center, the highest honor an organization can receive for professional nursing practice. Here, you will work alongside a dedicated team of caregivers, receive endless support and appreciation, and build a rewarding career. 

Hillcrest Hospital’s Pediatric Short Stay Unit is a dedicated 10-bed facility designed to provide short-term medical care and observation for children requiring hospital-level treatment for less than 24 to 48 hours. The unit is ideal for managing acute illnesses, post-operative recovery, diagnostic observation, and treatment requiring brief hospitalization.

As an RN on this team, you will assist fellow caregivers in delivering exceptional care by interacting directly with patients, families, and visitors, offering the opportunity to enhance their experience and supply healthcare information as needed. This position requires a caregiver who is empathetic, understanding and nurturing to ensure quality patient care and effective life-saving treatment. This role also provides the opportunity to float to the Pediatric Emergency Department.

How You’ll Benefit 

• 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 position PRN (as needed) variable shifts with one weekend within a six-week period and 2 holidays per year.

A caregiver who excels in this role will:  

• Provide direct nursing care. 

• Implement and monitor patient care plans.  

• Monitor, record and communicate patients’ conditions.  

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

• Note and carry out physician and nursing orders.  

• Assess and coordinate patients’ discharge needs. 

Minimum qualifications for the ideal future caregiver include:  

• Graduate from an accredited school of professional nursing (ADN or BSN program)  

• Current state licensure as a Registered Nurse (RN)  
• Successfully pass all prescreen competency assessments
• External applicants must have two years recent related nursing experience.
• Internal applicants with less than two years’ experience but post orientation /90 day probationary period could be considered with Chief Nursing Officer level review and approval.
• Will consider military RN experience

• Basic Life Support (BLS) certification through the American Heart Association (AHA) OR the American Red Cross
• Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) certification through the American Heart Association (AHA) OR American Red Cross
• Trauma Nursing Core Course (TNCC - adult) or Emergency Nurse Pediatric Course (ENPC - pediatric) upon hire or within 24 months of beginning work in the Emergency Department.
• Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) through the American Heart Association (AHA) OR American Red Cross within one year of hire

Preferred qualifications for the ideal future caregiver include: 

• 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.

                       

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.

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