3GH Ortho/Spine/Neuro/Telemetry- Staff RN- Full time Dayshift

BHS Baptist Healthcare System; Lexington (KY); On-site; USD 65,000 - 78,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, Vision, Dental and Pet Ins.

Life Insurance

Short/Long Term Disability

Tuition Reimbursement up to $6,000

Maternity and Paternity Leave

5 days Paid Time Off on hire

Bereavement Leave (pets included)

PTO Sell Back Program

Compassionate Leave Sharing Program

Retirement with Company Match

Job summary

Baptist Health in Lexington is seeking a Registered Nurse for a full-time first shift in the 3G & H telemetry/medical surgical unit. The RN will provide compassionate, evidence-based care, coordinate admissions, discharges and diagnoses, and educate patients and families to support healing and wellness.

The role emphasizes assessment, treatment, care coordination and individualized care planning on a unit serving orthopedic, neuro/spine, stroke and cardiac patients, with nursing rounds and

Qualifications

• Current RN licensure or work permit in Kentucky.
• Bachelor's or an associate degree in nursing from an accredited college/university.
• Applicants with an associate degree in nursing and less than 10 years of experience must enroll within 12 months of hire in a bachelor’s degree program and must have achieved the degree within 5 years.
• Basic life support- Applicants will have 30 days from their hired date to provide completion of this certification if they don’t have it already.
• ACLS/PALS/NRP and successful completion of dysrhythmia class as required by department of Assignment.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate, ensure and provide direct patient care activities on the unit through nursing rounds, assessments and treatments.
• Facilitate admission, transfer and discharge activities and provide patient and family-centered education.
• Support admissions, transfers and discharges and provide individualized care planning.
• Uphold compassionate, evidence-based nursing care focused on healing and wellness.

Education

Current RN licensure in Kentucky

Bachelor's or associate degree in nursing

RN with <10 years must enroll in BSN within 12 months and finish within 5 years

Basic life support within 30 days of hire

ACLS/PALS/NRP and dysrhythmia class as required

Job description

Summary Job Description:

Registered Nurse Full-Time, First Shift 3G & H 3G & H is a 37-bed telemetry/medical surgical unit specializing in but not limited to orthopedic/neuro/spine patients. The unit serves as a secondary stroke unit as well as general cardiac/telemetry patients. The patients are transferred from PACU, ED, interventional areas, and direct admissions from MD offices. The Registered Nurse provides compassionate, evidence-based nursing care through assessment, treatment, care coordination, patient and family education, and individualized care planning while supporting admissions, transfers, and discharges.

Job Description: The Registered Nurse (RN) implements professional nursing practice centered on the patient as a whole person, and the creation of a caring environment focused on healing and wellness. The Registered Nurse (RN) is an exemplar for compassion, acceptance, respect, and empathy honoring nursing as a distinct discipline and supporting an environment focused on healing and wellness. As a clinical nurse, this individual spends majority of his/her time (> 50%) coordinating, ensuring and providing direct patient care activities on the unit through: provision of nursing rounds, assessments and treatments; facilitating admission, transfer and discharge activities; provision of patient and family-centered education; care coordination and individualized treatment planning as applicable, etc.

Minimum Education, Experience, Training and Licensures Required:

• Current RN licensure or work permit in Kentucky.
• Bachelor's or an associate degree in nursing from an accredited college/university.
• Applicants with an associate degree in nursing and less than 10 years of experience must enroll within 12 months of hire in a bachelor’s degree program and must have achieved the degree within 5 years.
• Basic life support- Applicants will have 30 days from their hired date to provide completion of this certification if they don’t have it already.
• ACLS/PALS/NRP and successful completion of dysrhythmia class as required by department of Assignment.

Benefits:

• Health, Vision, Dental and Pet Insurance Life Insurance Short Term and Long-Term Disability and Life Insurance Identity Theft Protection Tuition Reimbursement up to $6,000 annually
• Company paid Maternity and Paternity Leave
• 5 days of Paid Time Off available upon hire
• Bereavement Leave (includes pets)
• PTO Sell Back Program
• Compassionate Leave Sharing Program (PTO Donation) Employee Support Fund, for employees in need of emergency financial support
• Retirement with Company Match

EEO Statement:

Baptist Health is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer, and seeks to employ individuals without regard to race, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, marital status, citizenship status, military status, religious or political beliefs, protected veteran status, employment status or any other protected class identified in any federal, state, or local law. Baptist Health specifically encourages minority, female, disabled, veteran and other candidates from diverse backgrounds to apply and strengthen our team. Please note that Baptist Health is a drug-free workplace and employment with Baptist Health is subject to post offer, pre-employment drug testing.

NOTICE OF NONDISCRMISSION AND ACCESSIBILITY TO SERVICES:

Persons with hearing and speech impairments can contact Baptist Health facilities by using the Kentucky Relay Service, a toll-free telecommunication device for the deaf (TDD).

For voice to TDD, call 800.648.6057.

For TDD to voice, call 800.648.6056.

Baptist Health is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. Founded in 1924 in Louisville, Kentucky, Baptist Health is a full-spectrum health system dedicated to improving the health of the communities it serves. The Baptist Health family consists of 10 hospitals, employed and independent physicians, and more than 470 points of care, including outpatient facilities, physician practices and services, urgent care clinics, outpatient diagnostic and surgery centers, home care, fitness centers, and occupational medicine and physical therapy clinics. Baptist Health’s eight owned hospitals include more than 2,300 licensed beds in Corbin, Elizabethtown, La Grange, Lexington, Louisville, Paducah, Richmond and New Albany, Indiana. Baptist Health also operates two joint venture hospitals: the 410-bed Baptist Health Deaconess Madisonville in Madisonville, Kentucky with Deaconess Health System based in Evansville, Indiana, and the Baptist Health Rehabilitation Hospital, a 40-bed inpatient rehabilitation facility with Encompass Health, based in Birmingham, Alabama. Baptist Health employs more than 24,000 people in Kentucky and surrounding states. Baptist Health is the first health system in the U.S. to have all of its hospitals recognized by the American Nursing Credentialing Center with either a Magnet or Pathway to Excellence designation for nursing excellence. Baptist Health’s employed provider network, Baptist Health Medical Group, has more than 1,820 employed providers offering care in 78 specialties, including approximately 862 physicians and 958 advanced practice clinicians. Baptist Health’s physician network also includes more than 2,000 independent physicians.