Nightingale RN Ambulatory - Gastroenterology

At Cleveland Clinic Health System, we believe in a better future for healthcare. And each of us is responsible for honoring our commitment to excellence, pushing the boundaries and transforming the patient experience, every day. We all have the power to help, heal and change lives — beginning with our own. That’s the power of the Cleveland Clinic Health System team, and The Power of Every One. Job Title Nightingale RN Ambulatory - Gastroenterology Location Port St Lucie Facility Tradition Hospital Department GI Tradition MOB2-Cleveland Clinic Martin Health Job Code 000596 Shift Days Schedule 8:00am-4:30pm Job Summary Job Details Join Cleveland Clinic Tradition Hospital’s team of caregivers that provide top-quality patient care to the Port St. Lucie area. Opening its doors in 2013 and expanding in 2017, this state-of-the-art acute care facility has 177 patient rooms and offers a wide variety of services to meet community needs. Here, you will be supported as you follow your dreams and find where you belong, here at Tradition Hospital. The Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition diagnoses and treats patients with digestive problems and conditions. Our specialists use innovative diagnostic tools and treatments such as upper gastrointestinal endoscopy for esophageal, stomach and duodenal disorders, endoscopic ultrasound with fine needle aspiration, ablative techniques for Barrett’s esophagus, colonoscopies, and therapeutic interventions for colonic disease. By joining the GI team as a RN, you will assist fellow caregivers in providing exceptional care, from initial introduction to final send-off. In this role, you will interact directly with patients, families and visitors, offering the opportunity to enhance their experience and provide important medical information as needed. You will also provide critical onboarding, mentoring and competency support for new clinical caregivers as a Nightingale, strengthening overall team performance. Additionally, the Cleveland Clinic system provides nurses with many professional development resources, including furthering education and online/in-person courses to enhance your skills. A PRN caregiver in this position works varying days from 8:00AM – 4:30PM. A caregiver who excels in this role will: Assess health status by completing a nursing assessment. Perform telephone triage. Notify physicians/LIPs of abnormal findings. Establish a care plan in collaboration with the patient, family and health care team. Collaborate with care coordinators to ensure smooth and effective transitions of care. Assist with specialized diagnostic and therapeutic procedures. Administer medications and treatments as ordered by physician/LIP and monitor patients for response. Initiate CPR and other emergency measures. Cover other nursing roles within the department. Develop, evaluate, adapt and document education to learning needs. Provide health education to patients and families. Participate in quality initiatives, process improvements and research activities to improve patient outcomes, patient experience and patient safety. Maintain professional growth and development in the nursing field and identify annual core competencies. Minimum qualifications for the ideal future caregiver include: Graduate of accredited school of nursing (Diploma, ADN or BSN program) Current state licensure as a Registered Nurse (RN) Three years of experience in an RN Ambulatory position at the Cleveland Clinic immediately prior to retirement Basic Life Support (BLS) certification through the American Heart Association (AHA) or American Red Cross Preferred qualifications for the ideal future caregiver include: Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) Physical Requirements: Requires full range of motion, manual and finger dexterity and eye-hand coordination. Requires corrected hearing and vision to normal range. May require 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 (Constantly: activity or condition exists 2/3 or more of the time) to move objects. Even though the weight lifted may be only a negligible amount, a job should be rated Light Work: (1) when it requires walking or standing to a significant degree; or (2) when it requires sitting most of the time but entails pushing and/or pulling of arm or leg controls; and/or (3) when the job requires working at a production rate pace entailing the constant pushing and/or pulling of materials even though the weight of those materials is negligible. 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. 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. If applying for a Florida position, please see the following website for more information on the background screening requirements required by the Agency of Health Care Administration: https://info.flclearinghouse.com/ Please review the Equal Employment Opportunity poster . Cleveland Clinic is pleased to be an equal employment opportunity employer.