Charge Nurse

Baptist Health; Lexington (KY); On-site; USD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, Vision, Dental and Pet Ins.

Life Insurance

Disability Insurance

Tuition Reimbursement up to $6,000

Maternity and Paternity Leave

Paid Time Off (5 days)

Bereavement Leave

PTO Sell Back

Compassionate Leave Donation

Employee Support Fund

Retirement with Company Match

Job summary

Baptist Health in Kentucky is seeking a Charge Nurse for the Motherbaby Unit (1st shift, full-time). This 24-bed telemetry unit supports our stroke program and neurology/neurosurgery care, and serves as overflow for orthopedic patients.

The Charge Nurse oversees workflow and staff, coordinating admissions, transfers, and discharges. Under Unit Director supervision, you model compassionate leadership, provide rounds, assessments, and treatments, and ensure education and care coordination for

Qualifications

• Active Kentucky RN license required with BLS/ACLS certifications.
• BSN or current enrollment in BSN program with completion within 5 years.
• Minimum of one year RN experience.

Responsibilities

• Oversee workflow and staff for designated shift; ensure efficient department functioning.
• Provide direct patient care through rounds, assessments and treatments; coordinate admissions, transfers and discharges.
• Foster compassionate, patient- and family-centered care; serve as role model for teamwork.

Skills

Active Kentucky RN license

BLS

ACLS

Education

Bachelor's degree in nursing

Job description

Summary Job Description: Job Description Charge Nurse, Motherbaby Unit Shift: Full-time, 1st Shift About 3F: This unit is a 24- bed Telemetry unit that supports our comprehensive stroke program. It specializes in the care of Neurology, Neurosurgery, TIA, and CVA. This unit also serves as an overflow for orthopedic patients. The patient population is transferred from ICU, ED, and PACU.

JOB OVERVIEW:

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. Role models caring behaviors in relationships with others. 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 BLS, 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
• -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

Please note: These benefits apply to Full-Time positions. (32 weekly hours- 40 weekly hours)

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 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.