Float RN

CommonSpirit Health; Lexington (KY); On-site; USD 85,962,000 - 124,645,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Sign-on bonus

Student loan assistance

Job summary

CommonSpirit Health’s Saint Joseph Hospital Lexington, KY seeks an experienced RN for its Float/Flex Team. The role offers a substantial sign-on bonus and up to $24,000 in student loan assistance, with responsibilities including patient assessments, care planning, and interdisciplinary collaboration to optimize outcomes.

Requirements include an accredited nursing program graduate with KY RN license, BLS/CPR, ACLS within 90 days, and PALS within 6–12 months.

Qualifications

• Graduation from an accredited nursing program and RN license in Kentucky.
• Minimum two years of RN experience in an acute care facility.
• CPR/BLS required and ACLS within 90 days, PALS within 6 months, TNCC within 12 months.
• Telemetry experience preferred for certain units; Telemetry exposure is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Conducts care assessments and interprets data to determine care needs.
• Completes system-based and hospital-specific competencies.
• Maintains accurate documentation of care, treatments, and patient outcomes.
• Collaborates with patients and families to plan, direct, and implement care.
• Supports safe medication administration and appropriate delegation of tasks.

Skills

Care assessments

Critical thinking

Documentation

Team collaboration

Medication administration

Education

Registered Nurse license (KY)

Two years acute care RN experience

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 Hospital, a 433-bed hospital founded in 1877 by the Sisters of Charity of Nazareth as the first hospital in Lexington, Kentucky. Led by Sister Euphrasia Stafford, the mission to provide compassionate care to the underserved is still carried out today. Saint Joseph Hospital holds over two dozen national ranks and recognitions and is recognized as a 2024 Best Place to Work in Kentucky.

Saint Joseph 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.

Pay Range

$30.00 - $43.50 /hour