CCU/PCU Clinical Nurse Coordinator

BHS Baptist Healthcare System; Corbin (KY); On-site; USD 75,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Vision insurance

Dental insurance

Life insurance

Short-term disability

Long-term disability

Tuition reimbursement

Maternity/paternity leave

Paid time off

Bereavement leave

Job summary

Baptist Health in Corbin, KY is seeking a CCU/PCU Clinical Nurse Coordinator for the third shift. This full-time role leads clinical education, evidence-based practice, and quality initiatives across nursing staff in a high-acuity Progressive Care Unit.

The position requires an Associate Degree in Nursing and a Kentucky RN license, with a preference for leadership and advanced clinical experience in critical care settings.

Qualifications

• Associate Degree in Nursing required; current Kentucky RN license required.
• Minimum of three years of clinical nursing experience required; leadership and advanced clinical experience preferred.
• Critical care, ICU, or step-down ICU clinical experience is strongly preferred.

Responsibilities

• Develops orientation, competency, continuing education, and professional development programs for nursing staff.
• Assesses educational needs and facilitates learning activities using evidence-based practices, clinical data, and organizational goals.
• Collaborates with nursing leadership, providers, and interdisciplinary teams to improve clinical practice, patient outcomes, and quality initiatives.
• Serves as a clinical consultant, mentor, educator, and role model while promoting professional growth, evidence-based practice, and staff competency.
• Monitors compliance with quality, regulatory, accreditation, and patient safety standards.

Skills

Clinical leadership

Mentoring

Education & training

Evidence-based practice

Education

Associate Degree in Nursing

Job description

Summary Job Description:

CCU/PCU Clinical Nurse Coordinator Full-Time – Third Shift BHCOR-Progressive Care Unit l L Corbin, KY

Description:

The Clinical Coordinator functions as a clinical pathway, population-based clinician responsible for promoting patient safety and high-quality patient care through clinical leadership, education, consultation and modeling. The clinical coordinator incorporates evidence-based practice, theory, and research into various patient care settings according to patient needs by collaborating with multi-professional groups; facilitating the development of hospital and department policies, nursing procedures, regulatory standards and guidelines; and conducting research. The role also includes functioning as a community resource on topics within scope of practice and providing nursing orientation, education, and ongoing competency verification. The clinical coordinator is a role model for caring that honors the patient’s mind, body, and spirit.

Responsibilities:

Develops, coordinates, and evaluates orientation, competency, continuing education, and professional development programs for nursing and clinical staff. Assesses educational needs and facilitates learning activities using evidence-based practices, clinical data, and organizational goals. Maintains clinical expertise and serves as a resource for patient care, complex clinical situations, and specialty practice standards. Collaborates with nursing leadership, providers, and interdisciplinary teams to improve clinical practice, patient outcomes, and quality initiatives. Serves as a clinical consultant, mentor, educator, and role model while promoting professional growth, evidence-based practice, and staff competency. Monitors compliance with quality, regulatory, accreditation, and patient safety standards. Supports customer service excellence and a positive healing environment through effective communication and relationship building. Adheres to organizational policies, infection prevention practices, emergency preparedness requirements, and safety programs. Performs other duties as assigned.

Requirements:

Associate Degree in Nursing required; current Kentucky RN license required. Minimum of three years of clinical nursing experience required; leadership and advanced clinical experience preferred. Critical care, Intensive Care Unit (ICU), or step-down ICU clinical experience is strongly preferred. Current or obtained within established departmental timeframes: BLS, ACLS, Basic Cardiac Arrhythmia, NIH Stroke Certification, 12-Lead ECG Training, Glucometer Training, Aegis/DY Training, and Nurse Wound Care Training.

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

Company Overview

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.

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.

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