Registered Nurse Labor and Delivery Full Time Nights *Sign-on Bonus Eligible*

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

Job summary

Baptist Health is seeking a Registered Nurse for Labor and Delivery on the Night shift. This full-time role supports a 24/7 Labor/Delivery unit with a focus on safety and quality patient care.

The RN will implement the nursing process across the care continuum, collaborate with obstetric teams, and participate in ongoing professional development to improve outcomes for mothers and newborns. The unit handles high-acuity patients with in-house anesthesia, neonatology, and OB hospitalist support.

Qualifications

• Associate's degree in nursing required.
• Active Kentucky RN license required.
• BCLS, ACLS and NRP certification required.
• 2 years NICU/newborn experience preferred.

Responsibilities

• Implement nursing process for assigned patient care across age groups.
• Promote positive patient outcomes and delivery of quality care.
• Collaborate with inter-professional team to enhance patient outcomes.
• Engage in continuous professional development and lifelong learning.

Education

Associate's degree in nursing

Job description

Registered Nurse Labor and Delivery- Full Time, Nights Status: Full Time Shift: Third Sign-on Bonus for Eligible Applicants

About The Unit

The Labor and Delivery unit is made up of 14 Labor/Delivery/Recovery rooms, three operating rooms, and a four bed OB Emergency Department. The unit delivers approximately 3,000 babies each year. Nurses work with a variety of patients from natural childbirth to high-risk preterm multiple gestation pregnancies. Nursing staff roles include the labor nurses who support labor and delivery, and delivery team nurses caring for newborns during the immediate newborn period. The unit has 24/7 in-house anesthesia, neonatology, and OB hospitalist support.

Job Summary

Registered nurse implements the nursing process for each assigned to his/her care regardless of age (i.e. infancy to geriatric) and is responsible for the patient’s care. The registered nurse promotes positive patient outcomes and the delivery of quality patient care. The registered nurse collaborates with the inter-professional team to enhance patient outcomes. The registered nurse serves as a role model through actively participating in the process of continuous professional development and lifelong learning.

Requirements

• Associate's degree in nursing required.
• Active Kentucky RN License required.
• Basic Cardiac Life Support (BCLS) required.
• Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS) required.
• Neonatal Resuscitation Program Certification (NRP) required.
• 2 years previous experience in NICU, Newborn Nursery, or applicable Neonatal experience strongly preferred.

EEO Statement

Baptist Health is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. Founded in 1924 in Louisville, Kentucky, Baptist Health is a full-s 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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