What are the responsibilities and job description for the Newborn Hearing Screener position at Cleveland Clinic?
Join Cleveland Clinic Tradition Hospital’s team of caregivers that provide top-quality patient care to the Port St. Lucie area. Opening its doors in 2013 and expanding in 2017, this state-of-the-art acute care facility has 177 patient rooms and offers a wide variety of services to meet community needs. Here, you will be supported as you follow your dreams and find where you belong, here at Tradition Hospital.
Tradition Hospital’s Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) has a dedicated team of caregivers that provide the highest quality, family-centered care to ill neonate and extremely low birth weight infants. This unit provides 24-hour neonatology services, evidence-based nursing practice, and advanced respiratory care. Join our team of caregivers as a Newborn Hearing Screener and become part of a supportive caregiver family that will be united in shared values and purpose to fulfill our promise of being the best place to receive care and the best place to work in healthcare.
This is a part time role. A caregiver in this position works shifts between 8:00am and 12:00pm.
A caregiver who excels in this role will:
- Perform pre-testing procedures including safe transport of newborns following protocol of hospital infant security system and identification, proper placement of sensor tabs and transducer of sound, and ensures proper equipment function, troubleshooting and reporting issues, as necessary.
- Calm and comfort baby while test is being performed.
- Monitor noise in environment of testing and adjust/modify/controls to reduce noise levels when necessary.
- Perform hearing screening on all newborns and infants prior to their discharge in accordance with Florida Department of Health rules and facility protocol using the appropriate objective method: Otoacoustic Emissions (OAEs) and/or Automated Auditory Brainstem Response (AABR).
- Communicate the results of the screening(s) and follow up (if needed) to the patients' family in a confidential, culturally, and linguistically appropriate manner.
- Provide test results and answers questions after extensive training by the Audiologist who serves as the coordinator.
- Provide written documentation of results in accordance with the law to caregivers and primary care providers within appropriate timelines.
- Document required information including quality assurance activities.
- Follow policies and procedures regarding baby care within the work environment.
- Escalate issues to the appropriate clinical function.
Minimum qualifications for the ideal future caregiver include:
- High school diploma.
- One year of experience in a hospital setting or working with infants.
- OR Associate's or Bachelor's degree in an allied health field may offset experience requirement
Physical Requirements
- Requires standing and walking for extended periods of time; must lift and carry items weighing up to 25 pounds.
- Requires normal or corrected hearing and vision to normal range.
- Requires some exposure to communicable disease or body fluids.
Personal Protective Equipment
- Appropriately follows universal hand washing procedures.
- Performs all required infection control in accordance with current policies.
Pay Range
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