Registered Nurse- New Grad - Seizure Monitoring

• Seeks supervision, consultation, assistance when unable to perform safely and independently.
• Other duties as assigned.
• Responds to data indicating risk to individual's health and initiates action to correct, reduce, or prevent the risk.
• Initiates and/or maintains interventions to assure continuity of safe/effective care for patients.
• Uses communication strategies in order to achieve desirable outcomes.
• Complies with established hospital/department personnel policies.
• Establishes and/or revises priorities for patient care activities based on the following: acuity of need, patient preference, and resource availability.
• Provides direct nursing care, alongside a coach, in accordance with established policies, procedures and protocols of the healthcare organization.
• Participates in a residency core curriculum based on their individual learning needs.
• Documents in patient's medical record according to established guidelines.

Education:

• BSN preferred
• Graduate from an accredited school of professional nursing.

Certifications:

• 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.
• Current state licensure as a Registered Nurse (RN).
• Any registered nurse or advanced practice nurse must obtain a cancer specific certification or demonstrate ongoing qualifying education within the timeframe of the facilities accreditation cycle, if they work in medical oncology, radiation oncology, cancer center or cancer clinic and/or administer chemotherapy within an accredited Cleveland Clinic facility.
• 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:

• Physical Demand requirements are in excess of those for Light Work.
• Exposure to communicable diseases and/or body fluids.
• Requires corrected vision and hearing to normal range.
• Requires standing and walking for extended periods of time.
• Requires working under stressful conditions and irregular hours.
• Requires full range of body motion including handling and lifting patient, manual and finger dexterity, and eye-hand coordination.
• 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.

Personal Protective Equipment:

• Follows Standard Precautions using personal protective equipment as required for procedures.