Open Heart Recovery Registered Nurse Full Time Nights

BHS Baptist Healthcare System; Springlee (KY); On-site; USD 34,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

Baptist Health is seeking an experienced registered nurse to join the Cardiovascular Recovery unit, a six-bed post-operative cardiac recovery area. You will provide intensive recovery care for critical cardiac patients on a night shift, with a 36-hour work week and a sign-on bonus for eligible experienced candidates.

The ideal candidate will hold an active Kentucky RN license, with BCLS and ACLS certifications, and prior open heart recovery or critical care experience.

Qualifications

• Active Kentucky RN license required.
• BCLS certification required.
• ACLS certification required.
• Experience in open heart recovery or critical care preferred.

Responsibilities

• Recover patients post-operatively after open heart surgery.
• Assess patient needs and implement appropriate nursing interventions.
• Establish and maintain a comprehensive plan for delivery of nursing care.
• Support patients and families as they navigate the cardiac recovery journey.

Skills

Critical thinking

Education

Active Kentucky RN License

BCLS

ACLS

Job description

Summary Job Description:

Full time 36 weekly hours, night shift Sign on Bonus eligible for experienced candidates!

About the Unit:

Cardiovascular Recovery, also known as Open Heart Recovery or CVR, is a six bed unit offering intensive recovery rooms and critical care services to the immediate post-operative cardiac surgery patient.

Job Duties:

The open heart recovery nurse recovers patients post operatively. The nurse assesses and identifies patient needs and implements appropriate interventions for the critical cardiac patient. The Nurse establishes and maintains a plan for the delivery of nursing care; assures that nursing care interventions and activities are directed to resolve problems; and performs technical aspects of care competently. Cardiac nurses must have strong critical thinking skills. The cardiac nurse acts as a family and patient resource to guide them through all stages of the patient’s cardiac journey.

Minimum Education, Training and Experience Required:

• Active Kentucky RN License
• BCLS Required
• ACLS Required
• Previous experience in open heart recovery, critical care or equivalent experience is desired

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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