Join Cleveland Clinic's Lakewood Family Health Center and become a part of one of the most respected healthcare organizations in the world. Lakewood Family Health Center has been providing top-quality patient care and a wide variety of specialties to the communities in and around Lakewood since opening in the summer of 2018. Lakewood Family Health Center also offers multiple specialty centers, such as a Center for Family Medicine, Center for LGBTQ+ Care, Emergency Department and more.    

Our Department of Allergy and Immunology provides leading-edge care. We specialize in severe asthma, eczema, food allergies and difficult-to-treat conditions.  

A caregiver in this position works Days, from 8:00am—4:30pm. 

A caregiver who excels in this role will:  

• Assess health status by completing a nursing assessment.  

• Perform telephone triage.  

• Notify physician/LIP of abnormal findings.  

• Establish a care plan in collaboration with the patient, family, and health care team. 

• Collaborate with care coordinators to ensure smooth and effective transitions of care. 

• Assist with specialized diagnostic and therapeutic procedures.  

• Assist with specialized patient care equipment as required by the clinical department and medical specialty assigned.  

• Administer medications and treatments as ordered by physician/LIP and monitor patients for response.  

• Initiate CPR and other emergency measures. Covers other nursing roles within the department 

• Provide health education to patients and families.   

• Develop, evaluate, adapt, and document education to learning needs.   

• Assist in preparation of the department specific education for patients and colleagues.  

• Facilitate smooth operation of the ambulatory areas. 

• Participate in quality initiatives, process improvements, and research activities to improve patient outcomes, patient experience, and patient safety.  

• Maintain professional growth and development in the nursing field and identify annual core competencies. 

Minimum qualifications for the ideal future caregiver include:  

• Graduate of accredited school of nursing.  

• Current state licensure as a Registered Nurse (RN). 

• Basic Life Support (BLS) through American Heart Association (AHA). 

• One year of recent experience as a Registered Nurse. 

• In areas performing moderate sedation procedures and/or cardiac stress testing, must have current Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) through American Heart Association (AHA) Certification within 6 months of hire. 

• Any registered nurse or advanced practice nurse must obtain a cancer specific certification or demonstrate ongoing qualifying education within the time 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. 

• If current Cleveland Clinic Caregiver in ambulatory Cleveland Clinic setting transferring into a RN role but remaining in the same current ambulatory Cleveland Clinic setting will consider current LPN, Medical Assistant, and/or other unlicensed clinical healthcare experience (e.g. Dialysis Tech., Ambulatory CT., in lieu of RN experience,  or if current Cleveland Clinic Caregiver in a clinical role within the same specialty area as ambulatory area transferring into will consider current LPN, Medical Assistant, and /or other unlicensed clinical healthcare experience(Dialysis Tech. , Ambulatory CT., Inpatient PCNA, inpatient C.T., Inpatient LPN, in lieu of RN experience.   Current demonstrated clinical competence. 

Preferred qualifications for the ideal future caregiver include:  

• BSN. 

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