Float RN

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

Benefits offered by this job

Sign-on bonus of up to $25,000

Student loan assistance up to $24,000

Job summary

CommonSpirit Health in Lexington, Kentucky, is looking for a Registered Nurse (RN) for our Float/Flex Team. The role offers a $25,000 sign-on bonus and focuses on delivering high-quality care that positively impacts patient recovery. The ideal candidate will have strong assessment skills, critical thinking abilities, and a commitment to patient care.

As part of the Saint Joseph East community, you will work in a dynamic environment and collaborate effectively with an interdisciplinary team, ensuring optimal patient outcomes.

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse: KY licensure upon hire
• Minimum two years of experience as an RN in an acute care facility
• Advanced Cardiac Life Support within 90 days

Responsibilities

• Conducts care assessments and interprets assessment data
• Collaborates with patients and families to evaluate and plan care
• Maintains accurate documentation of treatments and patient responses

Skills

Patient care

Critical thinking

Assessment skills

Education

Graduation from an accredited/approved school of nursing

Bachelors Of Science Nursing

Tools

Basic Life Support - CPR

Advanced Cardiac Life Support

Pediatric Advanced Life Support

Job description

Job Summary and Responsibilities

This position is eligible for up to a $25,000 sign-on bonus and up to $24,000 Student Loan Assistance.

As a Registered Nurse (RN) on our Float/Flex Team, you will be a pivotal healthcare professional, delivering compassionate, high-quality care that truly impacts our patients' well-being and recovery while presenting a positive attitude and being reliable.

Every day, you will leverage your expertise to provide individualized, comprehensive care, making critical assessments, performing skilled procedures, and meticulously implementing patient care plans. You'll collaborate seamlessly within an interdisciplinary team, contributing to a dynamic environment focused on optimal patient outcomes.

To thrive in this vital role, you will possess keen assessment skills, acute critical thinking, and a patient-first mindset, driven by a profound enthusiasm to help others. Your sense of urgency and dedication to excellence in a fast-paced environment will not only support patient recovery but also fuel your own career advancement.

• Conducts care assessments and interprets assessment data to determine care needs and constraints in meeting these needs.
• Successfully completes system-based and hospital specific competencies.
• Maintains accurate documentation of observations, treatments, teaching, medications, care given, patient response, and integrates into plan of care.
• In collaboration with patients and families (as defined by the patient) the Registered Nurse is responsible for evaluating, planning, directing and administering care to the patient. Implements plan of care based upon established standards of care/practice, policies, and procedures, incorporating cultural, religious, psychosocial, physical, and age-related issues.
• Possesses knowledge of medications, and administers safely and accurately.
• Appropriately delegates and supervises routine technical functions to non-licensed and licensed personnel.

Job Requirements

Required

• Graduation from an accredited/approved school of nursing and Minimum two years of experience as an RN in an acute care facility, upon hire and
• For Critical Care areas, two years of Critical Care experience and
• For Telemetry areas, one year of Telemetry and
• Registered Nurse: KY, upon hire and
• Basic Life Support - CPR, upon hire and
• Advanced Cardiac Life Support, within 90 Days and
• Pediatric Advanced Life Support, within 6 - months and
• Trauma Nurse Core Course, within 12 - months

Preferred

• Bachelors Of Science Nursing and For Telemetry areas, two years of Telemetry, upon hire

Where You'll Work

Welcome to Saint Joseph East, a 217-bed, full-service, community hospital located in a convenient setting in Lexington, Kentucky. Saint Joseph East also includes the Women's Hospital at Saint Joseph East which is dedicated to supporting the well‑being of women in Central and Eastern Kentucky and serves a 16‑bed Level III Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU).

CHI Saint Joseph Health is part of CommonSpirit Health, a non‑profit, Catholic health system dedicated to advancing health for all people. With approximately 175,000 team members and 25,000 physicians and advanced practice clinicians.

Our commitment to serve the common good is delivered through the dedicated work of thousands of physicians, advanced practice clinicians, nurses, and staff; through clinical excellence delivered across a system of 140 hospitals and more than 2,200 care centers serving 24 states.