Dialysis RN

Baptist Health; Lexington (KY); On-site; USD 65,000 - 85,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, Vision, Dental Insurance

Life Insurance

Disability Insurance

Tuition Reimbursement, up to $6,000

Maternity/Paternity Leave

PTO upon hire

Job summary

Baptist Health in Kentucky is seeking a Registered Nurse for the Dialysis Unit. The RN provides direct patient care, conducts rounds, assessments, and treatments, and supports admission, transfer, and discharge activities around hemodialysis and related therapies.

You will educate patients and families, participate in care coordination and individualized treatment planning, and apply evidence-based practice in alignment with policies and standards. Full-time, 1st shift.

Qualifications

• Current Kentucky RN licensure or work permit.
• Bachelor's or associate degree in nursing from an accredited college/university.
• Basic life support required within 30 days of hire.
• ACLS/PALS/NRP and dysrhythmia class as required.
• ASN with <10 years experience must pursue BSN within 12 months.

Responsibilities

• Provide nursing rounds, assessments, and treatments on the dialysis unit.
• Facilitate admission, transfer, and discharge activities.
• Deliver patient- and family-centered education.
• Coordinate care and develop individualized treatment plans.

Skills

Clinical nursing

Patient care

Care coordination

Education

Current RN licensure Kentucky

BSN or ASN from an accredited college/university

BLS within 30 days of hire

ACLS/PALS/NRP as required

If ASN and <10 years experience, enroll in BSN within 12 months

Job description

Summary Job Description: Registered Nurse, Dialysis Unit

Dialysis unit services all inpatients that require hemodialysis, therapeutic plasma exchange, or plasmapheresis during their hospital admission; either within the department and/or critical care areas. Dialysis services are available as needed 24/7.

Shift: Full-time, 1st Shift

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. Employee 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 an environment focused on healing and wellness. As a clinical nurse, this individual 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

• Current RN licensure or work permit in Kentucky.
• Bachelor's or an associate degree in nursing from an accredited college/university.
• Basic life support [must be obtained within 30 days of hire.]
• ACLS/PALS/NRP and successful completion of dysrhythmia class as required by department of Assignment.
• Those with an associate degree in nursing and less than 10 years of experience must enroll within 12 months of hire in a bachelor's degree program and must have achieved the degree within 5 years.

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

These benefits are for our 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.

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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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