RN - Metabolic Disease Care

RN - Metabolic Disease Care at Cleveland Clinic summary:

The RN - Metabolic Disease Care position at Cleveland Clinic involves providing specialized nursing care to adult patients undergoing bariatric surgery, including post-surgical monitoring, medication administration, and patient education. The role requires managing patient care plans, coordinating discharge needs, and working in a supportive, team-oriented environment with a strict patient-to-staff ratio. This position demands physical stamina, BLS certification, state RN licensure, and acute care nursing experience, with rotating shifts and weekend work required.

Join the Cleveland Clinic team, where you will work alongside passionate and dedicated caregivers, receive endless support and appreciation, and build a rewarding career with one of the most respected healthcare organizations in the world.

The M63 Metabolic Surgery Unit focuses on the treatment of patients undergoing Bariatric Surgery, including Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass, Gastric Banding, and Sleeve Gastrectomy. The dedicated caregivers on this 10-bed, private room, unit provide the highest quality, safest care to adult patients receiving post-surgical care. M63 has a positive, team-oriented and supportive culture with daily 7am huddles for both the night shift and day shift to start/end their shift with an optimistic mindset. We maintain a strict patient-to-staff ratio, never exceeding 5 patients per caregiver.

A caregiver in this position can expect to work rotating shifts 7:00am-7:30pm or 7:00pm-7:30am.

Alternating weekends is required.

A caregiver who excels in this role will:

• Provide direct nursing care.
• Implement, monitor, evaluate, update and revise patient care plans.
• Monitor, record, document and communicate patients’ conditions.
• Administer prescribed medications and treatments.
• Note and carry out physician and nursing orders.
• Assess and coordinate patients’ discharge needs.
• Educate patients and their families.

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).
• One-year of current acute care RN experience. Will consider military RN experience.

Preferred qualifications for the ideal future caregiver include:

• Bachelor of science in nursing (BSN).

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Physical Requirements:

• Requires full range of body motion including handling and lifting patient, 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

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Keywords:

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