New Grad RN Resident - Neuroscience

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### Job Title
New Grad RN Resident - Neuroscience

### Location
Akron

### Facility
Akron General Medical Center

### Department
9100 Neuroscience Unit-Cleveland Clinic Akron General

### Job Code
AK9877

### Shift
Nights

### Schedule
7:00pm-7:30am

Job Summary

Job Details

ONA Bidding Period: 10/19/2026-10/24/2026

Join us at Cleveland Clinic Akron General Hospital where we have been providing world-class care to our community for over 100 years. Here, we strive for patient-centered care and comfort with our collaborative team of healthcare professionals. We are committed to serving the community and treat our patients as family.

Akron General’s 9100 Neuro Med/Surg Unit is a private 22-bed unit that cares for patients who suffer from strokes, TBI (Traumatic Brain Injuries), spinal cord injuries and s/p craniotomy (after staying in NSICU). As a New Grad RN Resident on this team, you will assist fellow caregivers in delivering exceptional care, from initial introduction to final send-off, alongside a success coach. This role directly enhances patient care and the overall patient experience by providing safe, compassionate and evidence-based care to patients with complex neurological and medical-surgical conditions. Caregivers serve as key advocates for their patients, ensuring timely assessments, early recognition of changes in condition and effective coordination of care across the interdisciplinary team.

Caregivers choose to stay on our Neuro Med/Surg Unit because of the supportive leadership, collaborative team culture, opportunities to develop specialized neurological expertise and the ability to make a meaningful difference in patients' lives. The unit provides a strong foundation for professional growth through specialized neurological care experience, leadership development, certification opportunities, mentorship and involvement in quality improvement initiatives. Caregivers are supported in building rewarding, long-term careers while making a meaningful impact on patient outcomes.

A caregiver in this position works nights from 7:00PM – 7:30AM, including rotating weekends and 3 holidays per year .

A caregiver who excels in this role will:

- Participate in a residency core curriculum based on individual learning needs.

- Provide direct nursing care alongside a success coach.

- Establish and/or revise priorities for patient care (acuity of need, patient preference and resource availability).

- Respond to data indicating risk to patients’ health and initiate action to correct, reduce or prevent risk.

- Seek supervision, consultation and assistance when unable to perform safely and independently.

- Document in patients’ medical records.

Minimum qualifications for the ideal future caregiver include:

- Graduate from an accredited school of professional nursing (Diploma, ADN or 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

- New graduate RN OR less than one year of RN work experience OR experienced RN moving from non-inpatient to an acute direct care clinical inpatient setting with less than one-year current acute direct patient care RN experience

Preferred qualifications for the ideal future caregiver include:

- Bachelor’s of Science in Nursing (BSN)

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.

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