Registered Nurse New Grad Resident
Cleveland Clinic
Registered Nurse New Grad Resident
Cleveland Clinic
Non-profit medical center delivering care
Launch Your Nursing Career in Cleveland Clinic's Heart, Vascular & Thoracic Institute (HVTI)
Begin your nursing career in one of the nation's premier destinations for advanced cardiac, vascular, and thoracic care. As a new graduate nurse in HVTI Progressive Care, you'll build a strong clinical foundation while caring for some of the most complex cardiovascular patients outside of the intensive care unit. This high-acuity environment is designed to challenge, support, and prepare you for a successful career in critical care nursing.
Care for High-Acuity Cardiac Patients
You'll care for a diverse population of medically complex patients, including:
Experience a Higher Level of Progressive Care
HVTI Progressive Care is more than a traditional stepdown unit. You'll care for patients with rapidly changing conditions while developing expertise in advanced cardiac monitoring, complex medication drips, and specialized therapies. Working alongside an experienced multidisciplinary team, you'll strengthen your confidence, clinical judgment, and decision-making skills in a fast-paced, supportive environment.
Build the Skills for Critical Care
If your goal is to become an ICU nurse, HVTI Progressive Care provides an exceptional pathway. You'll gain valuable experience in:
Grow Your Career with Cleveland Clinic
At Cleveland Clinic, we believe exceptional critical care nurses are developed through strong clinical experiences. Many of our CVICU nurses begin their careers in HVTI Progressive Care, where they build the knowledge, confidence, and technical skills needed for long-term success.
This experience offers:
If you're looking for more than your first nursing job—and want a career defined by purpose, challenge, and continuous growth—HVTI Progressive Care is where your journey begins.
A caregiver in this position works 7:00am-7:30pm or 7:00pm-7:30am. Rotating weekends and holidays.
A caregiver who excels in this role will:
Participate in a residency core curriculum based on individual learning needs.
Provide direct nursing care alongside asuccesscoach.
Establish and/or revise priorities for patient care (acuity of need, patientpreferenceand resource availability).
Respond to data indicating risk to patients’ health and initiate action to correct, reduce or prevent risk.
Seek supervision,consultationandassistancewhen unable to perform safely and independently.
Documentinpatients’ medical records.
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 through the American Heart Association (AHA) or American Red Cross
New graduate RN OR less than one year of RN work experience
Preferred qualifications for the ideal future caregiver include:
Bachelor of science in nursing (BSN)
Physical Requirements:
Personal Protective Equipment:
Follows Standard Precautions using personal protective equipment as required for procedures.
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 Agency of Health Care Administration: https://info.flclearinghouse.com/
Please review the Equal Employment Opportunity poster.
Cleveland Clinic is pleased to be an equal employment opportunity employer.
Non-profit medical center delivering care
Cleveland Clinic runs a nonprofit academic medical center that delivers patient care, conducts research, and educates future clinicians. It provides in-person hospital services, surgeries, and telehealth options, plus digital tools like MyChart to manage care, as well as provider tools such as DrConnect and eRadiology to coordinate care. It differentiates itself by combining clinical care, medical research, and education under a nonprofit model with a broad international network and a strong emphasis on safety and quality. Its goal is to deliver high-quality medical care while advancing medical knowledge and training clinicians to improve health outcomes for diverse populations, globally.
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