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- Job Title Experienced RN – Operating Room 7a – 5:30p vary start Location Akron Facility Akron General Medical Center Department Operating Room-Cleveland Clinic Akron General Job Code AK9862 Shift Days + Call Schedule 7:00am-5:30pm Job Summary Job Details ONA Bidding Period: 5/18/26 - 5/22/26 Join Cleveland Clinic Akron General where we have been providing world-class care to the community for over 100 years.
- At Akron General, you will work and learn from some of the best caregivers, provide and receive multitudes of support and appreciation, and create the steppingstones toward a rewarding career with one of the world's most respected healthcare organizations.
- We strive for patient-centered care and comfort, and we are committed to serving the community and treating our patients as family.
- Akron General’s Operating Room (O.R.) department has a team of dedicated caregivers that work collaboratively to provide the best possible care for their surgical patients.
- These caregivers are eager and excited to add an Experience Registered Nurse (RN) to their team.
- As an RN, you will deliver exceptional care throughout the patient care journey.
- In this role, you will interact directly with patients and their families, offering the opportunity to enhance their experience and provide healthcare education as needed.
- RNs scrub and circulate through each service line during a 6-month orientation period and can complete extra rotations on specialty call teams to gain proficiency and join the team.
- How You’ll Benefit Take advantage of industry leading benefits, including our RN Loan Repayment program, which helps pay off student debt, and our Tuition Reimbursement program to reinvest in your career.
- And if you’re relocating to join us, you could be eligible for relocation assistance.
- Our Center for Workplace Violence Prevention and Caregiver Well-Being sets caregiver safety as a priority, identifying, reporting and responding to incidents and providing safety resources.
- A caregiver in this position works days from 7:00 a.m. – 5:30 p.m. with on-call, weekend and holiday rotation requirements.
Assessments
complete ongoing assessments, recognize changes in patient condition and respond appropriately.
Planning
develop and update goals, involve patients and families in developing plans of care, coordinating the interdisciplinary plan of care and serve as a patient advocate.
Implementation
provide nursing care, administer treatments and medication and document.
Evaluation
- participate in ongoing interdisciplinary evaluation of patient/family outcomes, contribute to the improvement of care and participate in the quality improvement process.
- Leadership/professional development: delegate tasks/assignments, serve as a resource person/role model/mentor, pursue ongoing education and specialty certifications, maintain applicable certification/licensure and obtain any required certifications specific to the unit.
- Department specific duties: plan for patient care utilizing both patient specific information and preference sheets, assist in collecting and preparing equipment, instruments, sutures and implants, anticipate the needs of the surgical team, act as a patient advocate, identify patients and confirm that surgical site identification has been performed without discrepancy, timely respond to on-call pages, maintain the room schedule and ensure surgical specimens are handled correctly by accurate identification. Successfully completes mandatory clinical competencies annually.
- Minimum qualifications for the ideal future caregiver include: Graduate from an accredited school of professional nursing (ADN or BSN program) Current state licensure as a Registered Nurse (RN) Basic Life Support (BLS) certification Successfully complete mandatory clinical competencies annually
- Preferred qualifications for the ideal future caregiver include: Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) Scrub experience
- Two years of
- Operating
- Room 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 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
