Registered Nurse Cardiovascular Unit Full Time Weekend Nights

BHS Baptist Healthcare System; Springlee (KY); On-site; USD 65,000 - 85,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus Eligible

Job summary

Baptist Health's Cardiovascular Unit seeks a Registered Nurse for 7p-7a, full-time nights, weekends. This Progressive Care Unit includes 15 CVI beds and 16 CVU beds; cares for patients around cardiac interventions, post-op recovery, and monitoring.

New grads encouraged; RN will assess needs, implement interventions, and maintain a care plan with strong critical thinking, supporting patients and families through their cardiac journey.

Qualifications

• Active Kentucky RN License required.
• BCLS required.
• ACLS required.

Responsibilities

• Assess patient needs and implement interventions.
• Maintain nursing care plan to address patient needs.
• Provide post-operative and cardiovascular care.
• Guide patients and families through their cardiac journey with strong critical thinking.

Education

Active Kentucky RN License

BCLS Certification

ACLS Certification

Job description

Job Summary

Seeking Registered Nurse for Cardiovascular Unit! Full Time, Nights (7p-7a - every weekend) Bonus Eligible for Qualified Candidates. This is a Progressive Care Unit that consists of 15 beds on CVI and 16 beds on CVU. CVI specializes in caring for patients pre- and post-cardiac interventions such as PTCA, cardioversion, and generator implants, as well as those with atypical chest pain requiring cardiac monitoring. CVU provides post-op care for cardiac surgery patients following open-heart recovery. Our RN's care for patients through their entire journey, from intervention to discharge. New graduate nurses are encouraged to apply. The Cardiac Nurse assesses patient needs, implements interventions, and maintains a nursing care plan to address those needs. Strong critical thinking skills are essential as nurses provide technical care and act as resources to guide patients and families through their cardiac journey.

Requirements

• Active Kentucky RN License
• BCLS Required
• ACLS Required

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement

Baptist Health is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer.

Employer Background

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.

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