Registered Nurse Float Pool

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

Benefits offered by this job

Preventive Plan

Retirement Plans

Work Experience Education

Job summary

Baptist Health in Kentucky is seeking a Float Pool Registered Nurse to support ICU and Tele units in Lexington. The RN will provide patient-centered care, coordinate admissions, transfers, discharges, and education for patients and families.

As a clinical nurse, you will use evidence-based practice, the nursing process, and collaboration across disciplines to promote healing and wellness in a busy hospital setting.

Qualifications

• Current RN licensure or work permit in Kentucky.
• Minimum 2 years RN experience; Bachelor's or Associates with progression required.
• ACLS/PALS/NRP and dysrhythmia class per department requirements.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate, ensure, and provide direct patient care on the unit (>50%).
• Provide nursing rounds, assessments, and treatments.
• Facilitate admission, transfer, and discharge activities.
• Provide patient and family-centered education.
• Care coordination and individualized treatment planning as applicable.

Skills

RN licensure

KY work permit

RN experience

BSN or ADN with progression plan

ACLS/PALS/NRP

Dysrhythmia training

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Nursing

Associate Degree in Nursing (with progression plan)

Job description

Summary Job Description

The Staffing Office plays a critical role in ensuring the optimal allocation of nursing and support staff across all departments. Float Pool Registered Nurse ICU and Tele available Job Description: The Registered Nurse implements professional nursing practice centered on the patient as a whole person and the creation of a caring environment focused on healing and wellness. Employee honors patients' mind, body, and spirit by respecting human dignity and the uniqueness of everyone. Nursing practices are based on evidence and current research as well as hospital and department policies and procedures, regulatory standards, and professional guidelines. Clinical decision-making incorporates all four phases of the nursing process, critical thinking, and creativity. Nursing excellence is promoted through helping relationships among nursing staff and across other disciplines. The Registered Nurse is an exemplar for compassion, acceptance, respect, and empathy honoring nursing as a distinct discipline and supporting an environment focused on healing and wellness. As a clinical nurse, this individual spends majority of his/her time (> 50%) coordinating, ensuring, and providing direct patient care activities on the unit through: provision of nursing rounds, assessments, and treatments; facilitating admission, transfer, and discharge activities; provision of patient and family-centered education; care coordination and individualized treatment planning as applicable, etc.

Requirements

Current RN licensure or work permit in Kentucky 2 years RN experience Bachelor's Degree in Nursing from an accredited college/university or an Associate's Degree with a minimum of ten (10) years’ experience required. In lieu of a bachelor's degree and less than ten years’ experience, an Associate Degree in Nursing will be acceptable for initial hire with the understanding that the individual must be enrolled within 12 months in a bachelor’s degree program and must have achieved the degree within 5 years. Basic Life Support ACLS/PALS/NRP and successful completion of dysrhythmia class as required by department of assignment

Benefits

Preventive Plan Retirement Plans Work Experience Education

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.

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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