Mixed Acuity Critical Care Full Time Days

Baptist Health; Springlee (KY); On-site; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Registered Nurse at Baptist Health in Kentucky provides care from infancy to geriatric, following the nursing process and collaborating with the inter-professional team to improve patient outcomes.

The role is full-time with three 12-hour day shifts (7a–7p), 36 hours per week, and every third weekend. A sign-on bonus is available for experienced candidates seeking to join a Magnet-designated health system.

Qualifications

• Active Kentucky License required.
• BCLS required within 90 days of employment.
• ACLS required within six months for experienced staff nurses and within one year for new graduate nurses.

Responsibilities

• Upholds the nursing process for all assigned patients, from infancy to geriatric.
• Collaborates with the inter-professional team to improve patient outcomes and safety.
• Demonstrates continuous professional development and lifelong learning.

Education

Active Kentucky License

BCLS Required within 90 days of employment

ACLS within six months for experienced staff nurses and within one year for new graduate nurses

Job description

Summary Job Description

Full Time 36 weekly hours, day shift - three 12-hour shifts per week (7a to 7p) & every third weekend. Support Shifts Required. Sign on Bonus eligible for experienced candidates! Critical Care Mixed Acuity Unit Mixed Acuity Unit is both a critical care and telemetry unit specializing in medical critical care. Staff in this department will receive both critical care and telemetry training and will see the whole realm of nursing. Care ranges from young adult through geriatric patient population.

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.

Minimum Education, Training, and Experience

1. Active Kentucky License
2. BCLS Required within 90 days of employment.
3. ACLS will be required within six months for experienced staff nurses and within one year for new graduate nurses.

Baptist Health Overview

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 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.

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