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Join Cleveland Clinic's Main Campus where research and surgery are advanced, technology is leading-edge, patient care is world-class, and caregivers are family. Here, you will work alongside a passionate and dedicated team, receive endless support and appreciation, and build a rewarding career with one of the most respected healthcare organizations in the world.

Nurses working in podiatry play a vital role in ensuring high-quality care delivery and smooth transitions from initial visit to surgery and back home. As RN, you will coordinate with other caregivers to communicate patient needs, educate patients about and improve patient access to critical treatments. In this role, you can help introduce more efficient and effective workflows to enhance patient safety and satisfaction.

Caregivers in this role could start as early as 7:00am to as late as 5:00pm. Primary location is Main Campus, but could float to various locations with potential weekend/evenings.

A caregiver who excels in this role will:

+ Provide professional nursing care in an ambulatory setting.

+ Assess health status, complete nursing assessments, perform telephone triage and establish care plans.

+ Administer medications and treatments.

+ Initiate CPR and other emergency measures.

+ Notify the physician and/or Licensed Independent Provider (LIP) of abnormal findings.

+ Assist with specialized diagnostic procedures, therapeutic procedures and specialized patient care equipment.

+ Develop, evaluate, adapt and document health education and provide it to patients and families.

+ Cover other nursing roles within the department.

+ Travel within the region to support physician clinics and surgical procedures, as needed.

Minimum qualifications for the ideal future caregiver include:

+ Graduate from an accredited school of Nursing

+ Current state licensure as a Registered Nurse (RN)

+ Basic Life Support (BLS) certification through the American Heart Association (AHA)

+ One year of recent experience as an RN OR LPN, Medical Assistant and/or other unlicensed clinical healthcare experience if applicant is a current Cleveland Clinic caregiver in an ambulatory setting transferring into an RN role but remaining in the same current ambulatory Cleveland Clinic setting OR a current Cleveland Clinic caregiver in a clinical role within the same specialty area transferring into an ambulatory area

Preferred qualifications for the ideal future caregiver include:

+ Bachelor's of Science in Nursing (BSN)

+ Prior experience in podiatry and wound care

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Physical Requirements:

+ Requires full range of motion, manual and finger dexterity and eye-hand coordination.

+ Requires corrected hearing and vision to normal range.

+ May requires 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 for procedures.

Pay Range

Salaries [which may be] shown on independent job search websites reflect various market averages and do not represent information obtained directly from The Cleveland Clinic. Because we value each individual candidate, we invite and encourage each candidate to discuss salary/hourly specifics during the application and hiring process.

Cleveland Clinic Health System is pleased to be an equal employment employer: Women / Minorities / Veterans / Individuals with Disabilities