PRN RN – Neonatal ICU (NICU)

                    

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Job Title

PRN RN – Neonatal ICU (NICU)

                        

Location

Akron

                    

Facility

Akron General Medical Center

                     

Department

Neonatal ICU-Cleveland Clinic Akron General

                      

Job Code

F99949

                     

Shift

Nights

                       

Schedule

7:00pm-7:30am

                       

Job Summary

                         

Job Details

Join Cleveland Clinic Akron General where we have been providing world-class care to the community for over 100 years. At Akron General, you will work and learn from some of the best caregivers, provide and receive multitudes of support and appreciation, and create the steppingstones toward a rewarding career with one of the world's most respected healthcare organizations. We strive for patient-centered care and comfort, and we are committed to serving the community and treating our patients as family.  

Our NICU opened November 1, 2024, under Cleveland Clinic oversight. We are a 14-bed, level III NICU. We admit infants born as young as 22 weeks gestational age up to full term babies who need help transitioning to life outside the womb. We care for babies who need full-body cooling, respiratory support (CPAP, conventional ventilators, jet ventilator, oscillator), and IV nutrition support as well as attend high risk deliveries and lead neonatal resuscitations. We have a full staff of neonatologists and neonatal nurse practitioners who are on-site 24/7. Along with our provider team, we have a full team of therapists - physical, occupational, and speech – a dedicated dietician, and a dedicated respiratory therapy team, who are here Monday through Friday. We also have a NICU Clinical Nurse Specialist who provides monthly simulations, hip-to-hip education, and just-in-time education. She has also taken on ensuring our policies and procedures are up to date and in alignment with the enterprise and the latest evidence-based practices. Our staffing core is 5 nurses, though we have a robust per diem team as well as status nurses willing to pick up to help the team. Our assignments are generally 1:3 (i.e. feeder/growers) or 1:2 (i.e. CPAP, stable vent, central lines) with the occasional 1:1 for those extremely high acuity babies (i.e. cooling, unstable jet or oscillator, nitric).  

As an RN in the NICU, you will deliver exceptional care throughout the patient care journey. In this role, you will interact directly with patients and their families, offering the opportunity to enhance their experience and provide healthcare education as needed.   

How You’ll Benefit 

• Our Center for Workplace Violence Prevention and Caregiver Well-Being sets caregiver safety as a priority, identifying, reporting and responding to incidents and providing safety resources. 

A caregiver in this position PRN (as needed) variable shifts. A caregiver in this position works PRN (as needed) variable shifts. You must work 48 night shift hours within a six-week period.

A caregiver who excels in this role will:  

• Provide direct nursing care. 

• Implement and monitor patient care plans.  

• Monitor, record and communicate patients’ conditions.  

• Serve as a primary coordinator of all disciplines for well-coordinated patient care.  

• Note and carry out physician and nursing orders.  

• Assess and coordinate patients’ discharge needs. 

Minimum qualifications for the ideal future caregiver include:  

• Graduate from an accredited school of professional nursing (ADN or BSN program)  

• Current state licensure as a Registered Nurse (RN)  
• Successfully pass all prescreen competency assessments
• External applicants must have two years recent related nursing experience.
• Internal applicants with less than two years’ experience but post orientation /90 day probationary period could be considered with Chief Nursing Officer level review and approval.
• Will consider military RN experience

• Basic Life Support (BLS) certification through the American Heart Association (AHA) OR the American Red Cross

• Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP) certification through the American Heart Association (AHA) within one year of employment

Preferred qualifications for the ideal future caregiver include: 

• Bachelor of science in nursing (BSN)

Physical Requirements:

• 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.
• Note: The constant stress and strain of maintaining a production rate pace, especially in an industrial setting, can be and is physically demanding of a worker even though the amount of force exerted is negligible.

Personal Protective Equipment:

• Follows Standard Precautions using personal protective equipment as required for procedures.

                       

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