Registered Nurse Cardiac ICU Full Time Days

BHS Baptist Healthcare System; Springlee (KY); Vor Ort; USD 78.000 - 105.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Baptist Health in Kentucky is seeking a full-time CICU nurse to join our 10-bed cardiac ICU on the 3rd floor. The unit provides continuous monitoring and supports patients with severe heart disease using assist devices and invasive monitoring; nurses work with a one-to-two patient ratio, requiring strong critical thinking and swift decision-making.

Candidates must have an active Kentucky RN license with BCLS; ACLS within six months for experienced staff and within one year for new graduates.

Qualifikationen

• Must hold an active Kentucky RN license.
• BCLS required within 90 days of employment.
• ACLS required within six months for experienced staff and within one year for new graduates.

Aufgaben

• Assess and identify patient needs and implement appropriate nursing interventions.
• Establish and maintain a plan for delivery of nursing care and ensure care is directed to resolve problems.
• Serve as a resource to patients and families throughout the critical care journey.

Kenntnisse

Critical thinking

Nursing assessment

Communication

Ausbildung

Active Kentucky RN license

Jobbeschreibung

Summary

Full Time 36 weekly hours, day shift Cardiac Intensive Care Unit (CICU) – 3rd Floor 4002 Building The CICU is a 10 bed critical care unit specializing in cardiac, intensive level care. Patients with severe heart diseases such as severe CAD, AMI, post arrest, cardiomyopathy, and arrhythmias that need continuous monitoring will be cared for on this unit. Assistive devices, including balloon pumps, impellas, and temporary pacemakers, as well as invasive monitoring devices like SWANs and a-lines are common on CICU. The CICU typically staffs with a one or two nurse to patient ratio to provide critical care. The patient population ranges from adults through geriatrics. BCLS and ACLS are/will be required. New graduate nurses are welcome.

Job Duties

The ICU nurse assesses and identifies patient needs and implements appropriate interventions for the patient. The ICU 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. ICU nurses must have strong critical thinking skills. The critical care nurse acts as a family and patient resource to guide them through all stages of the patient’s critical care journey.

Minimum Education, Training, and Experience

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

About Baptist Health

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.

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EEO Statement

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.

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