Charge Nurse

BHS Baptist Healthcare System; Lexington (KY); On-site; USD 68,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Life insurance

Disability

Tuition reimbursement

Maternity/paternity leave

Paid time off

Bereavement leave

PTO buyback

Leave sharing

Employee support fund

Retirement match

Job summary

Baptist Health is hiring a Charge Nurse for the Motherbaby Unit in Lexington, KY. This full-time, 1st shift role supports a 24-bed Telemetry unit aligned with a comprehensive stroke program, with overflow for orthopedic patients.

The Charge Nurse coordinates, ensures, and delivers direct patient care, mentors staff, and collaborates with nurses, physicians, and care teams to optimize outcomes and workflow on the unit.

Qualifications

• Active Kentucky RN license and BLS/ACLS or unit-specific certs.
• BSN degree or pursuit with a 5-year deadline to finish.
• Minimum of one year RN experience.

Responsibilities

• Supervise workflow and staff for a designated shift.
• Ensure provision of patient care and address issues with patients, families and physicians.
• Provide nursing rounds, assessments and treatments.
• Coordinate admissions, transfers and discharges; deliver patient and family education.

Skills

Nursing supervision

Care coordination

Patient education

Clinical rounds

Education

RN license (KY)

BSN (preferred)

Tools

Electronic health records

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)

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.

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