New Grad RN Resident

About the Role

This role is for a New Grad RN Resident in the Pediatric Emergency Department at Cleveland Clinic Hillcrest Hospital. Hillcrest Hospital is a Magnet Hospital awarded by the American Nurses Credentialing Center. The Pediatric Emergency Department provides pediatric care services in a child-friendly environment and is staffed 24/7 with board-certified pediatric emergency medicine physicians and nurses certified in Pediatric Advanced Life Support and pediatric trauma care. The department includes a Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner (SANE) unit and Child Life Specialists.

Key Responsibilities

• Participate in a residency core curriculum based on individual learning needs.
• Provide direct nursing care alongside a success coach.
• Establish and/or revise priorities for patient care (acuity of need, patient preference, and resource availability).
• Respond to data indicating risk to patients’ health and initiate action to correct, reduce, or prevent risk.
• Seek supervision, consultation, and assistance when unable to perform safely and independently.
• Document in patients’ medical records.
• Work nights from 7:00 p.m. – 7:30 a.m. with every other weekend and holiday requirements.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• 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) or American Red Cross.
• Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) and Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) certification through the American Heart Association (AHA) or American Red Cross.
• Trauma Nursing Core Course (TNCC – adult) or Emergency Nurse Pediatric Course (ENPC – geriatric) completion upon or within two years of hire.

Qualifications

• New grad or less than one year RN work experience, or if an experienced RN moving from a non-inpatient to acute direct care clinical inpatient setting with less than one year current acute direct patient care RN experience.
• Bachelor of science in nursing (BSN) is preferred.

Physical Requirements

• Requires full range of body motion including handling and lifting patients, 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 for procedures.

Pay Range

• Minimum hourly: $35.50
• Maximum hourly: $55.60