ED RN Full time Days

BHS Baptist Healthcare System; Town of La Grange (NY); On-site; USD 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Baptist Health in Kentucky is seeking an Emergency Department RN for a full-time day shift. The nurse delivers patient care across all ages, following nursing standards and acting as a role model for ongoing professional development.

The role emphasizes collaboration with multidisciplinary teams, involvement in governance, and maintaining high standards of quality and safety across the healthcare continuum.

Qualifications

• Active Kentucky License.
• BCLS certification required.
• ACLS certification required.
• PALS certification required.
• NIHSS certification required.

Responsibilities

• Implement the nursing process for each patient across all ages (infancy to geriatric).
• Promote positive patient outcomes and quality of care in the unit.
• Collaborate with a multidisciplinary team to improve patient outcomes.
• Participate in unit-based and hospital governance councils and pursue ongoing professional development.

Education

Active Kentucky License

BCLS Required

ACLS Required

PALS Required

NIHSS Required

Job description

Summary Job Description

Emergency Department RN Full-Time Days Emergency Department Weekly Hours: 36 Shift: 1st Status: Full Time

Job Summary

Registered nurse 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 registered nurse promotes positive patient outcomes; quality of care and initiates change through active involvement in unit-based and hospital shared- governance councils. National Professional Nursing Standards serve as guidelines for the registered nurse as he/she utilizes critical thinking skills and exercises appropriate nursing judgment. The registered nurse will collaborate with a multidisciplinary team to improve patient outcomes. Also, the registered nurse will serve as a role model by actively participating in the process of continuous professional development, teaching and learning across the healthcare continuum

Minimum Education, Training and Experience Required

• Active Kentucky License
• BCLS Required
• ACLS Required
• PALS Required
• NIHSS Required

Baptist Health Overview

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.

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