Endoscopy Registered Nurse Full Time

BHS Baptist Healthcare System; Springlee (KY); On-site; USD 65,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

Baptist Health Louisville is seeking a full-time Registered Nurse for the Endoscopy Department. The role involves providing care for inpatients and outpatients during procedures in a high-tech endoscopy suite, including EGD, bronchoscopy, and colonoscopy support.

The Endoscopy RN assesses patient needs, develops care plans, and performs nursing tasks competently in a fast-paced environment. Kentucky RN license and BCLS are required; endoscopy experience is a plus.

Qualifications

• Must hold Kentucky RN license to practice.
• Endoscopy experience is a plus; BCLS required.
• Baptist Health is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer.

Responsibilities

• Assess and identify patient needs and implement interventions during endoscopy procedures.
• Establish and maintain a nursing care plan; resolve problems; perform technical nursing tasks competently.

Skills

Endoscopy experience

Patient assessment

Team communication

Education

Kentucky Nursing License (RN)

Job description

Summary Job Description: Baptist Health Louisville is seeking to hire a full-time (40 Hours Weekly) Registered Nurse in our Endoscopy Department. The Endoscopy unit features ten treatment rooms and 30 pre and post-operative procedure rooms and a high-tech endoscopic retrograde colangio pancreatography (ERCP) room. Endoscopy provides inpatient and outpatient services with common procedures being EGD (Esophagogastroduodenoscopy) bronchoscopy, and colonoscopy. The Endoscopy RN assesses and identifies patient needs and implements appropriate interventions for the patient when undergoing various procedures. The Nurse establishes and maintains a plan for the delivery of nursing care; resolve problems; and performs technical aspects of care competently.

Requirements: Registered Nursing License to practice in Kentucky Previous endoscopy experience is a plus BCLS 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.

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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