Charge Nurse Cardiac ICU Full Time Days

Baptist Health; Springlee (KY); On-site; USD 70,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Sign-on bonus

Job summary

Baptist Health is seeking an RN to coordinate care in the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit (CICU) on the 3rd floor. This full-time role includes day shifts (7A-7P), with a sign-on bonus eligible for experienced CICU nurses. The unit features 10 beds with high-acuity cardiac patients requiring invasive monitoring and assist devices.

New graduates are welcome to apply. The charge nurse will provide leadership, implement the nursing process across ages, and collaborate with a multidisciplinary team to

Qualifications

• Active Kentucky RN license is required.
• BCLS and ACLS are required.
• Two years of relevant patient care experience recommended.
• New graduate nurses welcome.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate care on designated shifts under Nurse Manager.
• Provide leadership to unit staff.
• Utilize nursing process for each patient assignment.
• Support performance improvement activities.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary team.
• Promote positive patient outcomes and quality of care.
• Lead staff development and teaching on the unit.

Skills

Critical care nursing

Leadership

Unit coordination

Education

Active Kentucky RN license

BCLS

ACLS

Tools

SWANs monitoring

temporary pacemakers

Job description

Summary Job Description:

Full Time 36 weekly hours, day shift - three 12-hour shifts 7A-7P Sign On Bonus eligible for experienced Critical Care Nurses! Cardiac Intensive Care Unit (CICU) – 3rd Floor 4002 Building The CICU is a 10 bed critical care unit specializing in cardiac, intensive level care. Patients with severe heart diseases such as severe CAD, AMI, post arrest, cardiomyopathy, and arrhythmias that need continuous monitoring will be cared for on this unit. Assistive devices, including balloon pumps, impellas, and temporary pacemakers, as well as invasive monitoring devices like SWANs and a-lines are common on CICU. The CICU typically staffs with a one or two nurse to patient ratio to provide critical care. The patient population ranges from adults through geriatrics. BCLS and ACLS are/will be required. New graduate nurses are welcome.

Job Summary:

The CN is an entry-level management position responsible for the coordination of care on designated shifts. He/she will provide leadership to the staff members of the unit in the area of patient care. A) As a Registered nurse, he/she implements the nursing process for each patient regardless of age (i.e. infancy to geriatric) assigned to his/her care and is responsible for the patient’s care within the parameters of the Kentucky Nurse Practice Act. The charge nurse promotes positive patient outcomes, quality of care and initiates change through active involvement in unit-based and hospital shared-governance councils. B) National Professional Nursing Standards serve as guidelines for the charge nurse as he/she utilizes critical thinking skills and exercises appropriate nursing judgment. The charge nurse will collaborate with a multidisciplinary team to improve patient outcomes. Also, the charge nurse will serve as a role model by actively participating in the process of continuous professional development, teaching and learning across the healthcare continuum.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities:

• 1. Assists the Nurse Manager with operational activities of unit
• 2. Assists the Nurse Manager with management of patient care delivery on the unit
• 3. Demonstrates Clinical proficiency utilizing the nursing process
• 4. Demonstrates organizational skills in providing patient care
• 5. Collaborates with the nurse manager to support performance improvement activities
• 6. Participates in development of nursing staff
• 7. Leadership and critical thinking

Minimum Education, Training and Experience Required:

• A. Active Kentucky RN license
• B. Two years relevant patient care experience required.
• C. BCLS Required.
• D. ACLS Required.

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 NONDISCRIMATION 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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