BHLEX Charge Nurse-3E, 19 Bed Acute Care/Tele,Part-Time,Nights

BHS Baptist Healthcare System; Lexington (KY); On-site; USD 39,000 - 55,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, Vision, Dental

Tuition Reimbursement

Maternity/Paternity Leave

Bereavement Leave

PTO Sell Back Program

Retirement with Company Match

Job summary

Baptist Health Lexington is seeking a Charge Nurse for a Part-Time, Third Shift position on the 3E telemetry unit, which specializes in neurology and medical cardiology care.

The Charge Nurse provides shift leadership, coordinates staff workflow, and delivers direct nursing care, including assessments, treatments, education, admissions, transfers and discharges, while upholding compassionate, patient‑centered care.

Qualifications

• Active Kentucky RN license required.
• BLS within 30 days of hire if not current.
• ACLS or other unit‑specific cert.
• BSN preferred or currently pursuing (within 5 years).
• Minimum of 1 year RN experience.

Responsibilities

• Provide shift leadership and coordinate staff workflow.
• Deliver direct nursing care: assessments, treatments, education, admissions, transfers, discharges.
• Ensure safe, efficient, high‑quality patient care addressing patient/family needs.

Skills

Leadership

Clinical assessment

Care coordination

Education

Education

BSN or BSN in progress

Active Kentucky RN license

BLS certification

ACLS certification

Tools

EMR systems

ACLS

BLS

Job description

Summary Job Description

Charge Nurse Part-Time, Third Shift 3E 3E is a 19-bed telemetry unit, specializing in neurology and medical cardiology patients. The staff on 3E care for patients who come to BHL for our Comprehensive Stoke Care Program and nurses on 3E have additional certifications and training to provide high-quality care to our Stoke population. Patients are admitted from the ED, ICU, or direct admits on this unit. Charge Nurse provides shift leadership and coordinates staff workflow to ensure safe, efficient, high-quality patient care. Supports clinical operations, addresses patient care concerns, and provides direct nursing care, including assessments, treatments, care coordination, education, admissions, transfers, and discharges.

Job Description

Under the direction of Unit Director, Clinical House Supervisor, +/or Designee: Provides supervision of workflow and staff for a designated shift in overseeing the efficient functioning of the department. Assures the provision of patient care, by addressing performance, risk management, patient, family and physician issues/concerns as appropriate.

The Charge Nurse 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, the charge nurse 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

• Active Kentucky RN license.
• 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 and/or other designated unit specific certification training/requirements.
• Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing or currently actively pursuing a BSN degree. (BSN degree must be completed within 5 years of starting program).
• Minimum of one year of Registered Nurse experience.

Benefits

• Health, Vision, Dental and Pet Insurance
• Tuition Reimbursement up to $6,000 annually
• Company paid Maternity and Paternity Leave
• 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
• Identity Theft Protection
• 5 days of Paid Time Off available upon hire

About Baptist Health

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.

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 NONDISCRIMATION 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.