RN Homecare Float - No Weekends or Holidays, West Team

RN Homecare Float - No Weekends or Holidays, West Team

Cleveland Clinic Home Care provides skilled nursing, social services and physical, occupational and speech therapy for patients returning home after a hospital stay, outpatient procedures or doctor's visit. Our home care team continues Cleveland Clinic's treatment at home. We provide short term intermittent acute care at home. Our nurses work autonomously meeting patients where they live. This requires strong assessment skills and critical thinking. We provide flexibility to the nurse and the patient when coordinating care within a team environment.

As an Homecare Float RN, you will educate and follow the patient through a short-term intermittent recovery process. The skills needed to be successful in this role are below:

• Lab draws - peripheral sticks or central line draws
• Wound care - all types of wounds, measurements, documentation, wound vac experience
• IV - IV insertion, how to administer IV antibiotics, IV push medications, central line experience

In this role you will support the Western Cuyahoga County. Cities included but are not limited to:

• Cleveland, Parma, Brook Park, Brooklyn, North Olmsted, Westlake and others as needed

Cleveland Clinic Home Care provides a generous in-depth orientation that is tailored to each individual and their experience level. This position is eligible for student loan repayment.

Caregivers in this role will work from 10:00am 10:30pm. There are no weekends, holiday or on-call requirements.

A caregiver who excels in this role will:

• Provide direct nursing care in accordance with established policies, procedures and protocols of the agency, taking visits on the uncovered list, late admissions and other patient visits as needed.
• Participate in and support quality improvement projects.
• Participate in departments 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 a specified time frame.
• Assess patient 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 appropriate pain scale and manage patients' pain then.
• Prioritize and document patient problems based on assessed needs and problems in collaboration with patients, family and healthcare team.
• Maintain complete and up-to-date documentation and files at all times regarding patient condition and effectiveness and timeliness of care and interventions.
• Escalate change in patient condition to patient's physician as appropriate.

Minimum qualifications for the ideal future caregiver include:

• Graduate from an accredited school of Professional Nursing
• Current state licensure as a Registered Nurse (RN)
• Basic Life Support (BLS) Certification through the American Heart Association (AHA)
• 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 experience as an RN
• One year of experience in an acute Medical/Surgical or Home Care setting

Preferred qualifications for the ideal future caregiver include:

• Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN)
• Familiarity with complex medical treatments
• Experience working in homecare, med/surg, ICU and/or ED areas

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.

Key words: Home Health RN, Private Duty Nurse, Hospital at Home Nurse, Case Manager, Home Care Nurse, Infusion Nurse, Clinical Nurse Specialist

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.

Decisions concerning employment, transfers and promotions are made upon the basis of the best qualified candidate without regard to color, race, religion, national origin, age, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, ancestry, status as a disabled or Vietnam era veteran or any other characteristic protected by law. Information provided on this application may be shared with any Cleveland Clinic Health System facility.

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