Main PACU Night Shift Registered Nurse

BHS Baptist Healthcare System; Springlee (KY); On-site; USD 39,000 - 58,000; Part time

Job summary

Baptist Health is seeking an RN for the PACU/Main Surgery unit in Kentucky for a part-time night shift. The nurse will implement the nursing process for assigned patients, ensuring quality care and adherence to state nursing standards and hospital policies.

Key duties include collaboration with an inter-professional team, promoting positive patient outcomes, and ongoing professional development within the unit and hospital governance structures.

Qualifications

• Active Kentucky RN License is required.
• PACU or Critical Care experience strongly desired.
• BCLS required within 90 days of hire.
• ACLS/PALS required within 6 months of hire.

Responsibilities

• Implements the nursing process for assigned patients and ages, from infancy to geriatric.
• Promotes positive patient outcomes and quality care.
• Collaborates with inter-professional team to enhance patient outcomes and professional development.

Skills

PACU Experience

Critical Care

Patient Care

Education

Active Kentucky RN License

ACLS/PALS Certification (within 6 months)

BCLS Certification (within 90 days)

Job description

Summary Job Description

RN PACU Main Surgery 24 Hours Weekly, Part Time, Nightshift. The 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.

Requirements

• Active Kentucky RN License
• Previous PACU or Critical Care Experience Strongly Desired
• BCLS required within 90 days of hire
• ACLS/PALS required within 6 months of hire

Company Information

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.

NOTICE OF NONDISCRMISSION 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.