Nurse Assistant - Tele/Progressive FT Days

BHS Baptist Healthcare System; Paducah (KY); On-site; USD 32,000 - 42,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Tuition Assistance

Maternity/Paternity Leave

Bereavement Leave

Paid Time Off

Employee Assistance Program

Retirement Plan with Company Match

Job summary

Baptist Health (Kentucky) is seeking a Nurse Assistant for the Tele/Progressive Unit on a full-time schedule. The role supports patient care, aids with daily living activities, and works under the supervision of a Registered Nurse on the unit.

The position involves 36 hours per week with shifts from 07:00 to 19:30, assisting pediatric and geriatric patients as needed, maintaining a safe and clean environment, and documenting care in the EMR in accordance with scope of practice.

Qualifications

• 1 year of experience preferred.
• Successful completion of an Approved Aide Training Program/SRNA.

Responsibilities

• Assist with personal hygiene and activities of daily living.
• Take routine vital signs and provide routine care.
• Document patient care in EMR within scope of practice.

Skills

Patient care

Vital signs

Safety awareness

Education

Aide Training Program/SRNA

Tools

EMR usage

Job description

Summary Job Description: Nurse Assistant Tele/Progressive Unit Full Time 36 hours weekly 0700-1930

Assists patients with activities of daily living and provides nursing care to patients considering the special needs of pediatric and geriatric patients when indicated, assists in maintenance of a safe and clean environment under the direction and supervision of the Registered Nurse of the team/and or unit.

Essential Duties

• Personal hygiene
• Routine vital signs
• Routine care
• Documentation of patient care in EMR based on scope of practice

Preferred Requirements

• 1 year of experience preferred
• Successful completion of an Approved Aide Training Program/SRNA

Benefits

• Tuition Assistance reimbursement program
• Company paid Maternity and Paternity leave
• Bereavement Leave (includes pets)
• Paid Time Off available upon hire
• Employee Assistance Program
• Retirement plans with company match

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.

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