Patient Care Nurse Assistant (PCNA) - Complex Medicine Unit

Cleveland Clinic; Colesville (MD); On-site; USD 25,000 - 34,000; Full time

Job summary

Cleveland Clinic Health System in Garfield Heights, Ohio, seeks a Patient Care Nurse Assistant (PCNA) for the 5 West-Marymount Hospital Complex Medicine Unit. You will support nurses with patient care, monitor vitals, assist with daily living activities, and help maintain a safe, healing environment.

This role emphasizes teamwork, compassionate patient-centered care, and opportunities for education on a telemetry unit that recently reopened.

Qualifications

• High School Diploma or GED required.
• BLS certification through AHA or Red Cross, or during hire.
• Nursing students must have BLS prior to hire.
• Recent nursing clinical rotation may substitute experience.
• Military medical experience considered.
• Basic reading and numeracy skills required.

Responsibilities

• Provide or assist with patient care under RN supervision, including vital signs, ADLs, transfers, and monitoring devices.
• Report abnormal findings to an RN promptly.
• Maintain clean, orderly patient rooms and assist with comfort and safety.

Skills

Reading comprehension

Applied mathematics

Education

High School Diploma or GED

Basic Life Support (BLS) Certification

Nursing student with clinical rotation

Military medical experience

Job description

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

Patient Care Nurse Assistant (PCNA) - Complex Medicine Unit

Location

Garfield Hts

Facility

Marymount Hospital

Department

5 West-Marymount Hospital

Job Code

G10006

Shift

Days

Schedule

7:00am-7:30pm

Job Details

Serving the needs of Garfield Heights and the Southeast communities of Cuyahoga County, Marymount Hospital is an acute care, faith-based hospital. Here, caregivers are guided by the Christian values of service, compassion, dignity and respect and live by the mission of providing world-class healthcare. As a part of our team, you will build a rewarding, lifelong career in a diverse and welcoming environment.

Marymount Hospital’s 5th Floor Complex Medicine Unit is a recently reopened 12-bed telemetry unit caring for adult medical-surgical patients with multiple comorbidities, providing a fresh, energized environment where caregivers’ voices and ideas matter. The unit offers frequent opportunities to strengthen assessment skills, recognize subtle changes in patient condition, and build clinical judgment while delivering compassionate, patient-centered care. Caregivers will work alongside engaged leaders and supportive teammates while helping shape a growing unit focused on an exceptional patient experience.As a PCNA on this team, you will coordinate with fellow caregivers to create a welcoming, healing and warm environment for patients.

This position offers the ability to pursue educational advancement, higher positions and skills development courses offered by Cleveland Clinic. In this role, you have an excellent opportunity to start your nursing career and work in a supportive and caring healthcare setting.

A caregiver in this role works days from 7:00 a.m. – 7:30 p.m.

A caregiver who excels in this role will:

• Provide or assist with patient care under the supervision of an RN. Patient care may include vital signs, weight, assisting patients with personal care and activities of daily living, patient transfers/transport, pulse oximetry, point of care testing, dressing changes, applying external monitoring devices and removing urinary Foley catheter.

• Report abnormal findings or changes in physical, mental and emotional conditions to an RN.

• Assist with keeping patients’ rooms clean and orderly.

Minimum qualifications for the ideal future caregiver include:

• High School Diploma or GED

• Basic Life Support (BLS) Certification through the American Heart Association (AHA) or American Red Cross or must obtain during your new hire period

• Nursing students: required to have Basic Life Support (BLS) through American Heart Association (AHA) or American Red Cross prior to hire
• Nursing students who have recently completed a minimum of one clinical rotation as part of an accredited nursing school program may substitute the clinical rotation for the required experience
• Military experience as a Hospital Corpsman (HM), Combat Medic (68W) or Medical Service Technician (4N0X1) will be considered
• Proficient in applied mathematics & reading comprehension at an eighth-grade level

Preferred qualifications for the ideal future caregiver include:

• State Tested Nursing Assistant (STNA)

Physical Requirements:

• Requires full body motion to move and lift patients, manual finger dexterity with good eye-hand coordination; involves extensive standing and walking.
• 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.

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