Fall 2026 New Grad RN

BHS Baptist Healthcare System; Lexington (KY); On-site; USD 41,000 - 52,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Tuition Assistance

Transition to Practice Program

Competency Based Orientation

PTO

Frontload

Job summary

Baptist Health is seeking a New Graduate Registered Nurse (ADN/BSN) in Kentucky for full-time day and night shifts. The RN will provide direct patient care, coordinate admissions, rounds, and education while embracing compassionate, patient-centered practice.

The role requires Kentucky RN licensure and a nursing degree (Bachelor’s or Associate). The program offers tuition assistance, transition-to-practice, competency-based orientation, PTO, and frontload benefits.

Qualifications

• Must hold Kentucky RN licensure.
• Degree in nursing from an accredited program (BSN/ADN).
• New graduate within 12 months of graduation and no prior RN role.

Responsibilities

• Provide direct patient care and nursing rounds.
• Coordinate admissions, transfers, and discharges.
• Deliver patient and family education and care planning.
• Support care coordination and individualized treatment planning.

Skills

Patient care

Clinical assessment

Compassionate care

Care coordination

Education

Bachelor's or Associate degree in nursing

Current RN licensure in Kentucky

Job description

Summary Job Description: New Graduate Registered Nurse (ADN/BSN) Full-time, Day and Night Shifts Available

Who is Considered a New Graduate RN? A New Graduate RN is defined as a Registered Nurse who has graduated from an accredited nursing program within the past 12 months and has not yet worked in a Registered Nurse role.

Base Rate: $32.82/hour

Job Description

The Registered Nurse (RN) implements professional nursing practice centered on the patient as a whole person and the creation of a caring environment focused on healing and wellness. The Registered Nurse (RN) is an exemplary 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.

Benefits

• Tuition Assistance reimbursement program
• Transition to Practice Program
• Competency Based Orientation
• PTO
• Frontload

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.
• Applicants 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.

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.

Baptist Health is a drug‑free workplace and employment with Baptist Health is subject to post‑offer, pre‑employment drug testing.

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.

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.