Clinic Nurse, RN - Cardiology

BHMG Baptist Health Medical Group Inc.; Lexington (KY); On-site; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

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Job summary

Baptist Health Medical Group in Lexington, KY is seeking a Registered Nurse for the Cardiology department. The RN will provide patient-centered care, follow evidence-based practices, and support healing and wellness in a fast-paced hospital setting.

Responsibilities include utilizing the nursing process, collaborating with a multidisciplinary team, and upholding Baptist Health policies. This role requires KY licensure and appropriate certifications, with day shift availability.

Qualifications

• Current RN license or work permit in Kentucky.
• Maintain BLS; ACLS may be required for some positions.
• Equal Employment Opportunity employer.

Responsibilities

• Provide patient-centered nursing care following the nursing process.
• Collaborate with interdisciplinary team to coordinate care.

Skills

Patient care

Critical thinking

Communication

Education

RN license KY

BLS certification

ACLS certification

Tools

EMR system

Job description

Summary Job Description:

Baptist Health Medical Group - Cardiology Baptist Health Hamburg Lexington, KY Day Shift

Job Summary:

The Registered Nurse implements professional nursing practice centered on the patient as a whole person and the creation of a caring environment focused on healing and wellness. She honors patients; mind, body and spirit by respecting human dignity and the uniqueness of each individual. Nursing practices are based on evidence and current research as well as hospital and department policies and procedures, regulatory standards and professional guidelines. Clinical decision-making incorporates all four phases of the nursing process, critical thinking and creativity. Nursing excellence is promoted through helping relationships among nursing staff and across other disciplines. The Registered Nurse is an exemplar for compassion, acceptance, respect and empathy honoring nursing as a distinct discipline and supporting and environment focused on healing and wellness.

Minimum Education, Experience, Training, and Licensures/Certifications/Registrations Required:

Current RN licensure or work permit in Kentucky Basic Life Support Some RN positions will be required to maintain ACLS certification. Please seek departmental guidelines.

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.

Notice of nondiscrimination 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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