PRN Palliative Care Referral RN

BHS Baptist Healthcare System; Elizabethtown (KY); On-site; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Baptist Health in Kentucky seeks a Referral RN - Palliative Care PRN to support the palliative care team, assisting with patient evaluation, level of care decisions, patient management, and goals of care conversations.

The role involves staff education, completing advance directives and EMS DNR forms, with requirements including an associate degree in nursing, active KY RN license, two years acute care, and CHPN within three years of hire; BSN and hospice/palliative care experience preferred.

Qualifications

• Associate's degree in nursing is required.
• Active RN license through the Kentucky Board of Nursing required.
• Two years of acute care experience required.
• Must obtain CHPN within 3 years of hire.
• BSN preferred.
• One year hospice/palliative care experience preferred.

Responsibilities

• The Palliative Care Referral RN will work with the Palliative Care team to support clinical staff and physicians in the management of the continuum of care for palliative care patients.
• This includes assisting with patient evaluation, level of care determination, patient management, and goals of care conversations.
• The RN will assist with the education of staff and physicians, including completing advance directives and EMS DNR forms.

Skills

RN License

Acute care

CHPN in 3 yrs

Education

Associate's degree in nursing

Job description

Summary Job Description: Referral RN - Palliative Care PRN - as needed/variance in schedule

The Palliative Care Referral RN will work with the Palliative Care team to support clinical staff and physiciansin the management of the continuum of care for palliative care patients. This includes assisting with patientevaluation, level of care determination, patient management, and goals of care conversations.The RN will assist with the education of staff and physicians, including completing advance directives andEMS DNR forms.

Requirements

• Associate's degree in nursing required.
• Active RN license through the Kentucky Board of Nursing required.
• Two years of acute care experience required.
• Must obtain CHPN within 3 years of hire.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in nursing (BSN) preferred.
• One year of hospice/palliative care experience preferred.

If you would like to be part of a growing family focused on supporting clinical excellence, teamwork and innovation,

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.

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.

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