RN - Pediatric Epilepsy - Neuro Expansion

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Job Title

RN - Pediatric Epilepsy - Neuro Expansion

Location

Cleveland

Facility

Cleveland Clinic Main Campus

Department

M52 Pediatric Epilepsy-Nursing Institute

Job Code

F00165

Shift

Day/Night Rotation

Schedule

7:00pm-7:30am/7:00am-7:30pm

Job Summary

Join Cleveland Clinic Neurological Institute and become part of one of the world's most respected healthcare organizations. We are expanding with a new, one-million-square-foot, 15-floor, state-of-the-art facility on Cleveland Clinic Main Campus designed to elevate care for complex neurological conditions including spine injuries, epileptic seizures, movement disorders, multiple sclerosis and stroke.

This advanced building brings every stage of care under one roof, featuring dedicated spaces for outpatient services, surgery, stepdown, ICU and epilepsy monitoring, as well as additional operating rooms and expanded ambulatory, infusion, imaging, EMG, sleep and rehabilitation services. We are welcoming new caregivers to collaborate within our multidisciplinary teams and contribute to nationally recognized, innovative neurological care.

Our Children's Pediatric Epilepsy Program at Main Campus boasts a self-contained, nine-bed Pediatric Epilepsy Monitoring Unit operating 24 hours a day, seven days a week, with features that include state-of-the-art all-digital, video-EEG equipment staffed by nurses and EEG technicians specializing in pediatric epilepsy. It has one of the largest, most comprehensive programs for the evaluation of medical and surgical treatment of epilepsy in children, managing more than 3,000 children with pediatric epilepsy in our outpatient clinics per year. Our unit evaluates more than 700 children annually and more than 100 children with severe conditions with epilepsy surgery, making Cleveland Clinic's Surgical Epilepsy Program one of the foremost programs of its kind in the world.

A caregiver in this position works day/night rotation, from 7:00am - 7:30pm or 7:00pm - 7:30am (Part-time 24 Hours). The rotation is every 6 weeks. Every other weekend.

A caregiver who excels in this role will:

• Provide direct nursing care.
• Implement, monitor, evaluate, update and revise patient care plans.
• Monitor, record, document and communicate patients' conditions.
• Administer prescribed medications and treatments.
• Note and carry out physician and nursing orders.
• Assess and coordinate patients' discharge needs.
• Educate patients and their families.

Minimum qualifications for the ideal future caregiver include:

• Graduate from an accredited school of professional nursing (Diploma, ADN or BSN program)
• Current state licensure as a Registered Nurse (RN)
• Basic Life Support (BLS) certification through the American Heart Association (AHA) or American Red Cross
• One-year of current acute care RN experience. Will consider military RN experience

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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