Freestanding Emergency Department Float Registered Nurse PRN Nights

BHS Baptist Healthcare System; Louisville (KY); On-site; USD 44,000 - 63,000; Part time

Job summary

Baptist Health Louisville is seeking a Registered Nurse for the Float Pool (PRN) on nights. The nurse will float across the current Freestanding ED/UC locations in Kentucky and Indiana, delivering care per nursing standards and hospital policies.

The role emphasizes assessment, care planning, critical thinking, and collaboration with an inter-professional team to ensure positive patient outcomes, while participating in governance and ongoing professional development.

Qualifications

• Active Kentucky RN License.
• Associate's degree in nursing required.
• BCLS, ACLS, PALS.
• This position will be floating between the current Freestanding ED/UC locations in both Kentucky & IN.

Responsibilities

• Performs assessment/reassessment.
• Develops plan of care utilizing appropriate evidence based standards of care.
• Provides care consistent with policies, procedures and current evidence based standards of practice.
• Evaluates patient response to treatment.
• Applies critical thinking, clinical reasoning, organizational and leadership skills.

Skills

Critical thinking

Clinical reasoning

Leadership

Nursing process knowledge

Education

Associate's degree in nursing

RN License

Tools

BCLS

ACLS

PALS

Job description

Summary Job Description

Registered Nurse, Float Pool- PRN, Nights Shift: Third Status: PRN Job Summary Registered nurse implements the nursing process for each assigned to his/her care regardless of age (i.e. infancy to geriatric) and is responsible for the patient’s care consistent with the Kentucky Nursing Laws and organizational policies and procedures. The registered nurse promotes positive patient outcomes and the delivery of quality patient care and initiates change through active involvement in the unit-based and hospital shared governance councils while contributing to a healthy professional practice environment. National Professional Nursing Standards serve as guidelines for nurses as they utilize critical thinking and clinical reasoning skills and exercise appropriate nursing judgment. The registered nurse collaborates with the inter-professional team to enhance patient outcomes. The registered nurse serves as a role model through actively participating in the process of continuous professional development and lifelong learning. Utilizes the Nursing Process as the framework for providing care.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities

• Performs assessment/reassessment
• Develops plan of care utilizing appropriate evidence based standards of care.
• Provides care consistent with policies, procedures, current evidence based professional standards of practice and Baptist Health Louisville’s nursing mission, vision, values and model of care.
• Evaluates patient response to treatment
• Applies critical thinking, clinical reasoning, organizational and leadership skills.

Minimum Education, Training and Experience Required

• Active Kentucky RN License.
• Associate's degree in nursing required.
• BCLS, ACLS, PALS.
• This position will be floating between the current Freestanding ED/UC locations in both Kentucky & IN.

About Baptist Health

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.

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