New Grad RN Resident - Heart & Vascular Progressive Care ICU Pathway

Cleveland Clinic

4d•Onsite

About The Position

Launch your nursing career within the Heart, Vascular & Thoracic Institute (HVTI) — one of the nation’s premier destinations for complex cardiac and vascular care. This pathway offers opportunities within both CVICU and high-acuity Progressive Care (Stepdown), allowing new graduate nurses to build a strong clinical foundation caring for some of the sickest cardiac patients outside of critical care. Most new graduate nurses begin in our high-acuity Progressive Care (Stepdown) units, working alongside expert nurses, advanced practice providers, physicians, and multidisciplinary teams caring for complex cardiac patients, including: Post–open heart surgery patients, Heart and lung transplant recipients, Ventricular assist device (VAD) patients, Medically complex cardiac populations. This is not a traditional stepdown unit. You’ll manage rapidly changing patient conditions, advanced monitoring, and complex drips in a fast-paced environment designed to accelerate clinical growth from day one. For nurses interested in critical care, this is a powerful launching pad into ICU-level practice. You will build essential skills in: Advanced assessment and prioritization, Clinical judgment and decision-making, Managing high-acuity, unstable patients, Exposure to advanced cardiac therapies and technology. At Cleveland Clinic, we believe exceptional ICU nurses are built through strong clinical foundations. Many future CVICU nurses begin here, gaining the foundation needed for ICU success. This experience provides: A structured pathway toward critical care readiness, Exposure to some of the most complex cardiac patients outside of the ICU, Opportunities for transition into CVICU roles based on performance, experience, and organizational needs. If you want more than a first nursing job — and are seeking intensity, purpose, and exposure to some of the most complex patients in healthcare — HVTI is where your career begins.

Requirements

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 through the American Heart Association (AHA) or American Red Cross
New graduate RN OR less than one year of RN work experience

Nice To Haves

Bachelor of science in nursing (BSN)

Responsibilities

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.