RN - Telemetry/Neurology Unit

Join Cleveland Clinic Tradition Hospital’s team of caregivers that provide top-quality patient care to the Port St. Lucie area. Opening its doors in 2013 and expanding in 2017, thisstate-of-the-artacute care facility has 177 patient rooms and offers a wide variety of services to meet community needs. Here, you will be supported as you follow your dreams and find where you belong, here at Tradition Hospital.  

TheTelemetry/Neurology Unitat Tradition Hospitalspecializes inthe monitoring ofvarious neurological conditions and diagnoses.Many of these patients are post-stroke patients who have been downgraded from the PCU or ICU.As an RNon thisteam,you willassistfellow caregivers in delivering exceptional care, frominitialintroduction to final send-off. In this role, you will interact directly with patients,familiesand visitors, offering the opportunity to enhance their experience and supply healthcare education as needed. Additionally, the Cleveland Clinic system provides nurses with many professional development resources,including furtheringeducation and online/in-person courses to enhanceyourskills.

Acaregiver in this position worksnightsfrom 7:00PM – 7:30AM.

A caregiver who excels in this role will:  

• Provide direct nursing care. 

• Implement, monitor, evaluate,updateand revise patient care plans.  

• Monitor, record, document and communicate patients’ conditions.  

• Administerprescribed medications and treatmentsin accordance withapproved nursing protocol.

• Note and carry out physician and nursing orders.  

• Assess andcoordinatepatients’ discharge needs. 

• Educate patients and their families,considering cultural issues and other special concerns.  

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

• Maintain professional growth and development through ongoing formal and informal education and clinical nursingstudy.

Minimum qualifications for the ideal future caregiver include:  

• Graduate from an accreditedSchool of Professional Nursing(Diploma,ADNor BSN program)

• Current state licensure as a Registered Nurse (RN)

• Basic Life Support (BLS)Certification through the American Heart Association (AHA)or American Red Cross 

• One year of current acute care RN experienceORlicensed military RN experience

Preferred qualifications for the ideal future caregiver include: 

• Bachelor’sofScience inNursing (BSN)

• Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) Certification through the American Heart Association (AHA) or American Red Cross – if you do not hold this certification, you will need to obtain it within one year of hire

• NIH Stroke Scale Certification – if you do not hold this certification, you will need to obtain it within30 daysof hire