New Grad RN Resident– Fairview Hospital Med Surg units
- BLS
- PALS
- BSN
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About the job
At Cleveland Clinic Health System, we believe in a better future for healthcare. And each of us is responsible for honoring our commitment to excellence, pushing the boundaries and transforming the patient experience, every day.
We all have the power to help, heal and change lives - beginning with our own. That’s the power of the Cleveland Clinic Health System team, and The Power of Every One.
Job Title
New Grad RN Resident– Fairview Hospital All Units
Location
Cleveland
Facility
Fairview Hospital
Department
Job Code
F99938
Shift
Day/Evening/Night/Weekend
Schedule
7:00am-7:30pm/7:00pm-7:30am
Job Summary
Job Details
This General Job application will route you to speak with a recruiter about all Full Time New Grad RN Opportunities that are available at Fairview Hospital.
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Founded in 1892, Fairview Hospital is a faith-based community hospital with 488 licensed beds.
We are a fully accredited hospital by The Joint Commission, with a certified Level II Trauma Center. Cleveland Clinic Cancer Center at Fairview Hospital Moll Pavilion, located directly across the street from our main building, is part of the Integrated Network Cancer Program and has been awarded the Outstanding Achievement Award by the American College of Surgeons, Commission on Cancer.
Fairview Hospital's strong clinical Centers of Excellence include: Birthing Services, Cancer Center, Emergency and Level II Trauma, Heart Center, Surgery.
We are proud to be a Magnet® Hospital, Awarded by the American Nurses Credentialing Center; this designation is the highest honor an organization can receive for professional nursing practice.
- Cancer - Ranked #1 in Ohio / #5 Nationally
- Cardiology and Heart Surgery- Ranked #1 in Ohio / #1 Nationally
- Diabetes and Endocrinology- Ranked #1 in Ohio / #6 Nationally
- Emergency Department
- Gastroenterology and GI Surgery - Ranked #1 in Ohio / #3 Nationally
- Geriatrics - Ranked #1 in Ohio / #2 Nationally
- ICU
- Medical Surgical
- Neurology and Neurosurgery- Ranked #1 in Ohio / #9 Nationally
- Orthopedics - Ranked #1 in Ohio / #9 Nationally
- Labor and Delivery / Neonatal ICU
- PACU
- Pulmonology - Ranked #1 in Ohio / #4 Nationally
- Step-down
- Surgery
•Urology - Ranked #1 in Ohio / #4 Nationally
Responsibilities
- Participates in a residency core curriculum based on their individual learning needs.
- Provides direct nursing care, alongside a coach, in accordance with established policies, procedures and protocols of the healthcare organization.
- Establishes and/or revises priorities for patient care activities based on the following: acuity of need, patient preference, and resource availability.
- Initiates and/or maintains interventions to assure continuity of safe/effective care for patients.
- Responds to data indicating risk to individual's health and initiates action to correct, reduce, or prevent the risk.
- Seeks supervision, consultation, assistance when unable to perform safely and independently.
- Complies with established hospital/department personnel policies.
- Uses communication strategies in order to achieve desirable outcomes.
- Documents in patient's medical record according to established guidelines.
- Other duties as assigned.
Education
- Graduate from an accredited school of professional nursing.
- BSN preferred
Certifications
- Current state licensure as a Registered Nurse (RN).
- Basic Life Support (BLS) through American Heart Association (AHA).
- If in an ED, Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) through American Heart Association (AHA) upon hire or within one year of beginning work in the Emergency Department.
- Any registered nurse or advanced practice nurse must obtain a cancer specific certification or demonstrate ongoing qualifying education within the timeframe of the facilities accreditation cycle, if they work in medical oncology, radiation oncology, cancer center or cancer clinic and/or administer chemotherapy within an accredited Cleveland Clinic facility.
Complexity of Work
- Requires critical thinking skills, decisive judgment and the ability to work with minimal supervision.
- Must be able to work in a stressful environment and take appropriate action.
Work Experience
- New grad or less than one year RN work experience or if experience RN moving from non-inpatient to acute direct care clinical inpatient setting with less than one year current acute direct patient care RN experience.
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.
KEYWORDS: acute care, RN residency, RN Resident, Doherty, Rorapaugh, Ringwall, Galvan, Frye, Quigley, Snowden, Lattner
The policy of Cleveland Clinic Health System and its system hospitals (Cleveland Clinic Health System) is to provide equal opportunity to all of our caregivers and applicants for employment in our drug free environment. All offers of employment are followed by testing for controlled substances.
Cleveland Clinic Health System administers an influenza prevention program. You will be required to comply with this program, which will include obtaining an influenza vaccination on an annual basis or obtaining an approved exemption.
Decisions concerning employment, transfers and promotions are made upon the basis of the best qualified candidate without regard to color, race, religion, national origin, age, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, ancestry, status as a disabled or Vietnam era veteran or any other characteristic protected by law. Information provided on this application may be shared with any Cleveland Clinic Health System facility.
If applying for a Florida position, please see the following website for more information on the background screening requirements required by the Agency of Health Care Administration: https://info.flclearinghouse.com/
Please review the Equal Employment Opportunity poster .
Cleveland Clinic is pleased to be an equal employment opportunity employer.
From Cleveland Clinic's job posting, checked 4 Nov 2026. The employer's own page is the final word on requirements and availability.
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