RN - Homecare Float - Weekender Flex

RN - Homecare Float - Weekender Flex

Join the Cleveland Clinic team where you will work alongside passionate caregivers and provide patient-first healthcare. Here, you will receive endless support and appreciation while building a rewarding career with one of the most respected healthcare organizations in the world.

This position will support the lower Eastern Cuyahoga County and Upper Summit County. Some of the cities include: Independence, Maple Heights, Bedford, Solon, Novelty, Chagrin Falls, Streetsboro, Middlefield and other surrounding cities.

As a Homecare Float RN Weekender Flex, you will play a vital role in supporting patients by providing direct nursing care across a wide variety of needs. This position is designed to absorb evening and late-day visits, taking on uncovered assignments, late admissions and patients added to the schedule throughout the day. Your responsibilities may include managing symptoms, drawing labs, performing wound care and wound vac changes, initiating and educating patients on new antibiotic therapies, and ensuring seamless care transitions. In addition, you will help uphold quality standards through chart audits, supervisory visits and adherence to agency protocolsmaking a meaningful impact for patients and their families when they need it most.

This is a weekender flex position. A caregiver in this position works every weekend and 1 weekday per week from 10:00AM 10:30PM.

A caregiver who excels in this role will:

• Provide direct nursing care in accordance with established policies, procedures and protocols.
• Monitor quality through a variety of means such as chart audits and supervisory visits.
• Participate in and support quality improvement projects as well as participate in department and committees as assigned.
• Supervise starts of care, resumptions of care and routine visits as requested.
• Perform accurate and complete admission assessments and reassessments within specified time frames.
• Assess patients for safety risks, abuse and neglect.
• Serve as a primary coordinator of all disciplines for well-coordinated patient care.
• Assess and document patients' pain using pain scales and managing patients' pain.
• Maintain complete and up-to-date documentation and files at all time regarding patient condition and effectiveness of care.
• Escalate change in patient condition to patient's physician as appropriate.

Minimum qualifications for the ideal future caregiver include:

• Graduate of an accredited school of nursing (Diploma, ADN or BSN program)
• Current licensure as a RN in the State of Ohio
• Basic Life Support (BLS) certification through the American Heart Association (AHA) or American Red Cross
• Valid Ohio driver's license and proof of automobile insurance coverage with $100,000 per person and $300,000 per accident coverage.
• One year of current clinical experience as a RN
• One year of experience in an acute medical-surgical or home care setting

Preferred qualifications for the ideal future caregiver include:

• Bachelor's of Science in Nursing (BSN)

Why You'll Love Working with Us:

• Competitive Pay and Mileage Reimbursement
• Excellent Benefits 403b, health and dental insurance
• Flexible Scheduling
• Supportive Leadership That Has Your Back
• Opportunities for Advancement and Professional Growth
• Work-Life Balance You Can Count On
• Autonomy and Independence nurse manage their own patient assignment and make critical decisions in the field.
• Meaningful 1-on-1 Relationships nurses treat patients in the context of their home environment, allowing for truly personalized care.
• Broad Clinical Experience receive exposure to a wide range of patient conditions, great for developing clinical skills and confidence.
• Technology-Driven and Innovation-Friendly use mobile documentation and a wide range of technologies to deliver efficient, high-quality care in the home setting.

Physical Requirements:

• Requires full range of motion, manual and finger dexterity and eye-hand coordination.
• Requires standing and walking for extensive periods of time.
• Requires corrected hearing and vision to normal range.
• Requires some exposure to communicable disease or bodily 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.
• Must be ambulatory and able to drive to patients' homes, able to climb stairs, pull, push, and facilitate movement of the patient.
• Must be able to read, write and communicate with patients.

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.

Cleveland Clinic Health System administers an influenza prevention program. You will be required to comply with this program, which will include obtaining an influenza vaccination on an annual basis or obtaining an approved exemption.

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