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Join the Cleveland Clinic team where you will work next to talented caregivers and provide exceptional and highly ranked care. Cleveland Clinic's Taussig Institute provides complete cancer care enhanced by internationally recognized research efforts, offering the most effective techniques to achieve long-term survival and improve patients' quality of life. The care we provide integrates the delivery of multidisciplinary care to a complex patient population from admission to discharge.
We have an opening for a Registered Nurse on our G111 Bone Marrow Transplant & Leukemia nursing unit. This wonderful and empathetic disciplinary team builds long-term relationships with the patients who are battling cancer as well as the patients' loved ones.
Our goal is that all caregivers provide patients with the highest quality, safest care possible - exuding the Cleveland Clinic nursing organization's values of quality, safety, innovation, teamwork, integrity, empathy, and inclusion. Your duties will include but are not limited to:
* Giving patients chemotherapy followed by intensive intravenous therapies, including IV antibiotics, antivirals, antifungals, blood products and electrolyte replacements.
* Monitoring and documenting patient's condition and effectiveness and timeliness of care and/or interventions.
* Evaluating updating and revising plan of care to facilitate achievement of planned and expected outcomes.
* Serving as a primary coordinator of all disciplines for well-coordinated patient care.
* Assisting and coordinating patient's discharge planning needs with members of the healthcare team.
* Possesses exceptional communication and relationship-building skills.
Our ideal caregiver:
* Is passionate
* Encourage and motivate people to make positive changes
* Has strong written and verbal communication skills.
* Has excellent interpersonal skills to relate effectively with co-workers and patients.
* Has the ability to problem solve and de-escalate crisis situations.
This is an excellent opportunity to discover Cleveland Clinic's Oncology Institute and gain hands-on experience in this rewarding unit.
At Cleveland Clinic, we know what matters most. That's why we treat our caregivers as if they are our own family, and we are always creating ways to be there for you. Here, you'll find that we offer: resources to learn and grow, a fulfilling career for everyone, and comprehensive benefits that invest in your health, your physical and mental well-being and your future. When you join Cleveland Clinic, you'll be part of a supportive caregiver family that will be united in shared values and purpose to fulfill our promise of being the best place to receive care and the best place to work in healthcare.
**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
**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 for procedures.
Salaries [which may be] shown on independent job search websites reflect various market averages and do not represent information obtained directly from The Cleveland Clinic. Because we value each individual candidate, we invite and encourage each candidate to discuss salary/hourly specifics during the application and hiring process.
Cleveland Clinic Health System is pleased to be an equal employment employer: Women / Minorities / Veterans / Individuals with Disabilities
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