Cardiovascular ICU Charge RN PT Nights

BHS Baptist Healthcare System; New Albany (IN); On-site; USD 52,000 - 72,000; Part time

Job summary

Baptist Health Floyd Floyd County's Cardiovascular ICU seeks a Charge Nurse for part-time, night shift. The role leads staff, coordinates care, and ensures smooth patient flow while still performing direct patient care.

Entry-level leadership with experience in a CVICU setting is preferred. Benefits eligible, with sign-on for EXPERIENCED candidates and a location near Louisville, KY. EOE and equal opportunity employer.

Qualifications

• Current Indiana or compact state RN license is required.
• BLS for Healthcare Provider certification is required.
• ACLS certification must be obtained within 12 months of hire.
• NIH Stroke Scale Certification required within 10 weeks of hire.
• One year of nursing experience is required; one year in the specialty preferred.
• Professional/Specialty certification as per unit standards.

Responsibilities

• Serve as resource nurse and coordinate care on designated shifts.
• Provide leadership to unit staff during patient care.
• Direct patient care while coordinating staffing fluctuations and patient flow.
• Address immediate staff issues and respond to departmental concerns during shifts.

Skills

RN license (Indiana or compact)

BLS for Healthcare Provider

ACLS within 12 months

NIH Stroke Scale Certification within

Job description

Summary Job Description

Seeking Charge Nurse! Baptist Health Floyd, Cardiovascular ICU Part-Time (24 Hours Weekly), Nights Benefit Eligible $ Sign on Bonus Eligible for Experienced Candidates Only $

Job Duties

Responsible for acting as a resource nurse for the department. This is an entry-level leadership position responsible for the coordination of care on designated shifts. He/she will provide leadership to the staff members of the unit in patient care. This position will work alongside the team and provide direct patient care while determining needed staffing fluctuations during shifts, responding to departmental concerns, address immediate staff issues and coordinate patient flow. This position has immediate oversight of employees while performing the same or directly related work as those the position leads.

About the Unit

The Cardiovascular Intensive (CVU) of Baptist Health Floyd specializes in the care of open-heart surgery patients. CVU is a modern unit providing expert cardiac care with an innovative model of care called the universal bed concept. The team leverages their clinical expertise to care for these cardiac patients on all levels from pre-operative teaching to open-heart recovery, to cardiac ICU care, and to discharge teaching. While cardiac surgery patients are the primary focus, the CVU team also cares for general ICU patients, complex cardiology patients, patients requiring cardiac devices such as intra-aortic balloon pumps and Impellas, and patients requiring cooling after cardiac arrest.

Qualifications

• Current Indiana or compact state RN license.
• BLS for Healthcare Provider required.
• ACLS certification (obtained within 12 months of hire).
• NIH Stroke Scale Certification required, within 10 weeks of hire.
• One year of nursing experience required; One year of experience in area of specialty preferred.
• Professional/Specialty certification required as per unit/department standards.
• Baptist Health Floyd is a Pathway to Excellence® designated organization.

We offer competitive salaries and excellent benefits.

We are conveniently located 10 minutes from downtown Louisville at 1850 State Street, New Albany, IN 47150.

EOE.

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 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 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 physician network also includes more than 2,000 independent physicians.

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.

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.

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