Charge Nurse

Baptist Health; Corbin (KY); On-site; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Retirement plans

Job summary

Baptist Health in Kentucky seeks a Charge Nurse PRN for the 3 South Surgical Unit. The role provides shift leadership, coordinates staff workflow, and ensures safe, high-quality patient care for adults with complex medical and postoperative needs.

The team specializes in cardiac care with telemetry monitoring. Under supervision, you will spend the majority on direct patient care, including rounds, assessments, treatments, and care coordination for admissions, transfers and discharges while

Qualifications

• Active Kentucky RN license required.
• BLS certification required within 30 days of hire.
• ACLS and/or other unit-specific certifications preferred.
• Bachelor's Degree in Nursing (BSN) or pursuing BSN; complete within 5 years.

Responsibilities

• Provide shift leadership and coordinate staff workflow.
• Deliver direct nursing care, assessments and treatments.
• Care coordination, admissions, transfers and discharges.
• Support unit operations and address patient and family concerns.

Skills

BLS Certification

ACLS Certification

Education

Active Kentucky RN license

Bachelor's Degree in Nursing or BSN in progress

Job description

Summary Job Description

Charge Nurse PRN, 1st Shift 3 South Surgical 3 South Surgical Unit is a dynamic, fast-paced unit that provides comprehensive care for adult patients with complex medical, cardiac, vascular, and post-operative needs. Our team specializes in caring for patients with acute cardiac conditions, complex medication management, and cardiovascular procedure recovery. Staff develop advanced clinical skills through the care of a diverse patient population requiring cardiac telemetry monitoring. Team members utilize a multidisciplinary approach to deliver high quality; patient-centered care focused on stabilization, treatment, recovery, and education. 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

• Preventive Plan Retirement Plans Flimp Decisions - Flimp Decisions will help you pick the best value plan option given your expected medical needs. The proprietary algorithm provides a personalized financial analysis and recommendation, considering both premium and expected out-of-pocket cost (copays, etc.), as well as other important plan features.

EEO Statement

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. 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.

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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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