• Responsibilities:
  • Provides direct patient care to neonates in accordance with established policies, procedures and protocols of the healthcare organization.
  • Implements and monitors patient care plans.
  • Monitors, records and communicates patient condition as appropriate.
  • Serves as a primary coordinator of all disciplines for well-coordinated patient care.
  • Notes and carries out physician and nursing orders.
  • Assesses and coordinates patient's discharge planning needs with members of the healthcare team.
  • Other duties as assigned.
• Education:
  • Graduate from an accredited school of professional nursing.
• Certifications:
  • Current licensure as Registered Nurse (RN).
  • Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP) through American Heart Association (AHA) certification within one year of employment.
  • Proof of Basic Life Support (BLS) through American Heart Association (AHA) certification must be presented upon hire.
• Work Experience:
  • Must have two years current related nursing experience.
• 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.

• Level I: Well newborn nursery.
• Level II: Special care nursery.
• Level III: Neonatal intensive care unit (NICU)

Keywords: C-PAP and ventilators, UVCs and UACs catheters, possible floating among Tradition Hospital and Cleveland Clinic Martin North, Experienced NICU RN

Per Diem Requirements : 48 hours within 6 week period / 1 shift per week