Registered Nurse Mother Baby Full Time Nights

Kyeatright; Louisville (KY); Hybrid; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Baptist Health in Louisville, KY seeks a Registered Nurse for Mother Baby on the third shift. You will care for postpartum mothers and newborns, participate in deliveries, and perform initial assessments. New graduates are welcome, with lactation consultants available for staff education.

The role requires an Associate's degree in nursing, an active Kentucky license, and BCLS and NRP certifications within specified timelines.

Qualifications

• Nurse provides postpartum care for mothers and babies.
• Basic neonatal assessment and care.
• Lactation support available from specialists.

Responsibilities

• Deliver nursing care for postpartum patients and newborns.
• Perform initial assessments and monitor mothers and babies.
• Adhere to Kentucky Nursing Laws and facility policies.

Skills

Patient care

Postpartum care

Newborn care

Education

Associate's degree in nursing

Job description

Summary Job Description: Registered Nurse Mother Baby- Full Time, Nights Status: Full Time Shift: Third About the Unit: Registered Nurse Serves postpartum patients with all-private rooms plus a newborn nursery. Mother/Baby RN care for moms and their babies as units. During the night, nurses are assigned to moms and babies separately. Nursery Registered Nurse attend deliveries and complete initial assessments. Lactation consultants are available for patient and staff teaching. New graduates are welcome.

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 consistent with the Kentucky Nursing Laws and organizational policies and procedures. The registered nurse promotes positive patient outcomes, and the delivery of quality patient care and initiates change through active involvement in the unit-based and hospital shared governance councils while contributing to a healthy professional practice environment.

Requirements: Associate's degree in nursing. Active Kentucky License. Basic Cardiac Life Support (BCLS) required within 90 days of hire. Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP) required within 6 months of hire.

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.

NOTICE OF NONDISCRIMATION AND ACCESSIBILITY TO SERVICES Persons with hearing and speech impairments can contact Baptist Health facilities by using the Kentucky Relay Service, a toll-free telecommunication device for the deaf (TDD). For voice to TDD, call 800.648.6057. For TDD to voice, call 800.648.6056.

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