Registered Nurse PRN Ambulatory Care Unit

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

Job summary

Baptist Health in Kentucky seeks a Registered Nurse for the Ambulatory Care Unit (ACU) to provide nursing care across all ages, applying the nursing process and upholding standards and policies. The role emphasizes patient safety, quality care, and professional practice in a fast-paced ambulatory setting.

You will collaborate with an inter-professional team to optimize outcomes, engage in governance activities, and pursue lifelong learning to support clinical excellence and innovation within

Qualifications

• Active Kentucky RN License required.
• BCLS (Basic Life Support) certification required within 90 days of hire.

Responsibilities

• Establish and implement the nursing process for assigned patients across all ages.
• Collaborate with inter-professional team to optimize patient outcomes.
• Promote evidence-based nursing and participate in governance activities.
• Uphold Kentucky Nursing Laws and organizational policies.

Skills

Active Kentucky RN License

BCLS within 90 days

Job description

Summary Job Description: RN - ACU (Ambulatory Care Unit) 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. National Professional Nursing Standards serve as guidelines for nurses as they utilize critical thinking and clinical reasoning skills and exercise appropriate nursing judgment. 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. Utilizes the Nursing Process as the framework for providing care.

Requirements

Active Kentucky RN License BCLS required within 90 days.

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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.

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