New Grad RN

Continuing Care Hospital - Lexington; United States; On-site; USD 60,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Continuing Care Hospital, located within CHI Saint Joseph Hospital, offers a National Nurse Residency program designed to support new grads through mentorship and real-world clinical growth.

As a Nurse Resident, you will collaborate with physicians and a multidisciplinary team to deliver compassionate care, administer treatments, track vitals, and educate patients and families while developing leadership and professional skills for a lasting nursing career.

Qualifications

• Evidence-based Practice (EBP) and Patient Care: Builds skills to utilize current evidence based practice knowledge, the nursing process, critical thinking and problem solving skills to provide holistic care across the lifespan.
• Interprofessional Collaboration and Communication: Learns to collaborate and communicate with the interprofessional team to ensure effective and efficient patient care delivery.
• Leadership: Develops accountability for own practice, delegated care, and the coordination of care delivery.
• Professionalism: Maintains knowledge in nursing practice and responsibility for ongoing professional development.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with physicians and a multidisciplinary team to deliver patient-centered care.
• Administer treatments, monitor vitals and educate patients and families.
• Engage in the Nurse Residency Program to support growth and development.
• Contribute to high-quality care and continuous improvement in clinical practice.

Skills

Teamwork

Communication

Patient Safety

Evidence-based Practice

Leadership

Professionalism

Continuous Learning

Ownership

Patient/Customer Focus

Job description

Where You'll Work

Welcome to Continuing Care Hospital, a 25-bed long-term acute care hospital located inside CHI Saint Joseph Hospital. Continuing Care Hospital is recognized as a 12-time winner of the Kentucky Hospital Association Quality award and a 2024 Best Place to Work in Kentucky.

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.

Job Summary and Responsibilities

As a National Nurse Resident, you'll step into a hands-on, supportive experience designed to help you grow and build confidence from day one. You won't be on your own. You can expect real mentorship, meaningful feedback, and a team invested in your long-term success.Every day, you'll collaborate with physicians and a multidisciplinary team to deliver care that sees each patient as an individual. You'll administer treatments, track vitals, educate patients and families, and play a key role in making sure people feel seen, heard, and cared for.To succeed in this role, you'll actively engage in our comprehensive, evidence-based Nurse Residency Program designed to support your growth and professional development. With a strong drive to learn and a team-first mindset, you'll continue sharpening your skills while building a meaningful, fulfilling nursing career.

Evidence-based Practice (EBP) and Patient Care: Builds skills to utilize current evidence based practice knowledge, the nursing process, critical thinking and problem solving skills to provide holistic care to individuals across the lifespan and care continuum.

Interprofessional Collaboration and Communication: Learns to collaborate and communicate with the interprofessional team to ensure effective and efficient patient care delivery and the achievement of desired patient outcomes.

Leadership: Develops accountability for own practice, delegated care, and the coordination of care delivery. Behaves in a manner that supports colleagues, and maintains respect, trust and dignity.

Professionalism: Acquires and maintains knowledge in nursing practice and assumes responsibility for the professional development of self.

Attainment of Core Competencies

• Taking Ownership: Has a basic understanding and knowledge of the current situation or issue at hand; ability to take full personal responsibility or ownership for assignments, activities, decisions and results.


• Teamwork: Basic understanding and knowledge of the necessity and value of teamwork; participates effectively as part of a team.


• Patient / Customer Focus: Basic understanding ensuring that the patient/customer perspective is a driving force behind our actions and business decisions; crafting and implementing service practices that meet patients'/customers' and own organization's needs. (Focus also includes internal and external customers.)


• Leading through Mission, Vision and Values: Basic understanding keeping the organization's mission, vision and values at the forefront of associate decision making and action.


• Effective communication: Basic understanding of effective communication concepts, tools and techniques; ability to effectively transmit, receive, and accurately interpret ideas, information, and needs through the application of appropriate communication behaviors.


• Patient Safety: Basic understanding and knowledge of the risks faced by patients in a healthcare environment, and the ability to take steps to reduce these risks.


• Clinical Performance Improvement: Basic understanding and knowledge of the factors contributing to quality patient care, and the ability to influence these factors in a positive way.


• Continuous Learning: Basic understanding of the rationale behind the necessity to continually learn and grow and the ability to seek performance feedback and identify approaches to improve one's own performance and that of others.


• Followership: Basic understanding and ability to carry out strategies and tasks that support the mission and goals of the leader and the organization.


• Service Excellence: Basic understanding and knowledge of customer service concepts and techniques; ability to meet or exceed customer needs and expectations and provide excellent service in a direct or indirect manner.


• Healthcare Knowledge: Basic understanding and knowledge of the operating principles, major issues, governmental regulations, and code of ethics for the healthcare industry; ability to apply this understanding appropriately to healthcare related situations.


• Nursing Assessment and Care: Basic understanding of and ability to assess ailments and injuries of patients and implement a treatment pla