Registered Nurse, PRN

BHS Baptist Healthcare System; Lexington (KY); On-site; USD 60,000 - 90,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

PRN benefits plan

Retirement plans

Flimp Decisions

Job summary

Baptist Health Lexington is seeking a Registered Nurse for the NICU to deliver compassionate, evidence-based care to high-risk neonates. You will coordinate direct patient care with a focus on dignity, empathy, and clinical excellence across the lifespan.

You will lead rounds, coordinate admissions/transfers, educate families, and develop individualized treatment plans in a 32-bed NICU with private rooms, emphasizing teamwork and continuous learning.

Qualifications

• Current RN licensure to practice in Kentucky.
• Bachelor’s degree in nursing or an associate degree with at least 10 years’ experience.
• BLS certification required within 30 days of hire.
• ACLS/PALS/NRP certification and rhythm analysis training per department policy.

Responsibilities

• Conduct nursing rounds, assessments, and treatments.
• Facilitate admissions, transfers, and discharges.
• Provide patient and family-centered education.
• Coordinate care and develop individualized treatment plans.

Skills

RN licensure KY

Clinical nursing

ACLS/PALS/NRP

BLS

Education

BSN or ADN + 10 years exp

Associates + BSN in 5 years enrollment

Job description

Summary Job Description

Registered Nurse – NICU Location: Baptist Health Lexington Schedule: PRN, Days About the unit: 5A NICU is a 32-bed private room NICU caring for High-Risk neonates from 28 weeks to full-term.

JOB SUMMARY

The Registered Nurse (RN) delivers compassionate, evidence-based care designed to support healing and wellness. In this role, you’ll coordinate, ensure, and provide direct patient care while creating an environment rooted in dignity, respect, and empathy. You will use your clinical expertise and critical thinking to assess, plan, implement, and evaluate individualized care for patients across the lifespan.

As a clinical nurse, you’ll spend the majority of your time (>50%) coordinating, ensuring, and providing direct patient care through:

• Conducting nursing rounds, assessments, and treatments
• Facilitating admissions, transfers, and discharges
• Providing patient and family‑centered education
• Coordinating care and developing individualized treatment plans

REQUIREMENTS

• Current RN licensure or work permit in Kentucky
• Bachelor’s degree in nursing from an accredited college/university or an associate 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 (Must obtain within 30 days of hire.)
• ACLS/PALS/NRP and successful completion of dysrhythmia class as required by department of assignment.

Benefits

• PRN (As Needed) Preventive Plan Retirement Plans Flimp Decisions - Flimp Decisions will help you pick the best value plan option given your expected medical needs. The proprietary algorithm provides a personalized financial analysis and recommendation, considering both premium and expected out‑of‑pocket cost (copays, etc.), as well as other important plan features. Please note: These benefits are for our PRN positions.

If you would like to be part of a growing family focused on supporting clinical excellence, teamwork and innovation,

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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