Join Cleveland Clinic Medina Hospital and experience world-class healthcare at its best. As a recipient of Vizient, Inc.'s Bernard A. Birnbaum, MD, Quality Leadership Award, Medina Hospital is known for its excellence in delivering safe, patient-centered care that is timely, effective, efficient, and equitable. Medina Hospital is also a proud Pathway Hospital. This designation awarded by the American Nurses Credentialing Center recognizes a healthcare organization’s commitment to creating a positive practice environment that empowers and engages staff.

Nurses within the Orthopaedic Surgery Department play a vital role in ensuring high-quality care delivery and smooth transitions from initial visit to surgery and back home. As RN, you will coordinate with other caregivers to communicate patient needs, educate patients about and improve patient access to critical treatments. In this role, you can help introduce more efficient and effective workflows to enhance patient safety and satisfaction.

A caregiver in this position works from 8:00AM – 4:30PM.

A caregiver who excels in this role will:

• Provide professional nursing care in an ambulatory setting.
• Assess health status, complete nursing assessments, perform telephone triage and establish care plans.
• Administer medications and treatments.
• Initiate CPR and other emergency measures.
• Notify the physician and/or Licensed Independent Provider (LIP) of abnormal findings.
• Assist with specialized diagnostic procedures, therapeutic procedures and specialized patient care equipment.
• Develop, evaluate, adapt and document health education and provide it to patients and families.
• Cover other nursing roles within the department.
• Travel within the region to support physician clinics and surgical procedures, as needed.

Minimum qualifications for the ideal future caregiver include:

• Graduate from an accredited school of Nursing
• Current state licensure as a Registered Nurse (RN)
• Basic Life Support (BLS) certification through the American Heart Association (AHA)
• One year of recent experience as an RN OR LPN, Medical Assistant and/or other unlicensed clinical healthcare experience if applicant is a current Cleveland Clinic caregiver in an ambulatory setting transferring into an RN role but remaining in the same current ambulatory Cleveland Clinic setting OR a current Cleveland Clinic caregiver in a clinical role within the same specialty area transferring into an ambulatory area

Preferred qualifications for the ideal future caregiver include:

• Bachelor’s of Science in Nursing (BSN)
• Experience in Orthopaedics

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Physical Requirements:

• Full range of motion, manual and finger dexterity and eye-hand coordination
• Corrected hearing and vision to normal range
• Some exposure to communicable diseases or bodily fluids
• Light Work, exerting up to 20 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 10 pounds of force frequently and/or a negligible amount of force constantly to move objects

Personal Protective Equipment:

• Follow Standard Precautions using personal protective equipment as required for procedures